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  • A key to bridging the political divide: Sit down and talk?

    March 29, 2021 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States

    One Small Step seeks to decrease toxic polarization by bringing people of differing views and backgrounds together to talk. About 800 people have met in pairs in around 40 cities to talk about commonalities, such as family and spirituality, in addition to other issues facing the country. The conversations, which highlight people’s commonalities and help to humanize one another, are based on research that shows bringing people together face-to-face decreases prejudice and discrimination. Some of the recorded conversations become part of the StoryCorps podcast or were broadcast on NPR.

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  • Fighting America's Gun Plague

    March 29, 2021 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    One of dozens of community-based anti-violence groups in New York City, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence teaches high schoolers classes on gun-violence prevention that carry an underlying message: how to fight their community's powerlessness in nonviolent ways. Former students of the program were inspired to start their own youth-focused offshoot, Youth Over Guns, and others have gone on to careers in activism or the work of directly intervening to prevent retaliatory shootings. As one of its counselors put it, he's teaching that "everybody should be an anti-gun activist now.”

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  • How a Seattle Neighborhood Confronted Food Insecurity in the Pandemic

    March 29, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In the South Park neighborhood of Seattle, community efforts during the coronavirus pandemic have resulted in the creation of a system that battles food insecurity. Spearheaded by the community center, a local non-profit, and a local restaurant, the community has built and expanded a kind of coordinated mutual aid that helps residents maintain access to hot meals and pantry items.

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  • When ‘om' can help you take care of Mom: Meditation, mindfulness useful tools for many caregivers

    March 29, 2021 |

    WXXI |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Mindfulness and meditation practices have been shown to reduce stress and neurological biomarkers of aging while also improving an individual's mood, resilience, and cognitive performance. To help connect caregivers to these practices, some programs are now offering classes at community centers.

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  • Minneapolis restaurants offer takeout food without a side of guilt for using wasteful containers

    March 29, 2021 |

    Minneapolis Star Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    A clean tech startup called Forever Ware created reusable, stainless steel containers for restaurants to use instead of single-use takeout containers. So far, four restaurants in Minneapolis are participating in the program, where customers pay a deposit for the container and can return it to any restaurant in the network. Within two months, the containers were used about 1,400 times, which probably cut back on some plastic waste ending up in landfills.

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  • Sharing is Caring: Kenya's Only Breast Milk Bank Expresses Care for Vulnerable Newborns

    March 29, 2021 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    To help mothers who aren't able to supply their newborn with an adequate supply of breast milk, a hospital in Kenya has developed a milk bank. At the breast milk bank, new mothers can donate a portion of their supply of milk that is supplied to preterm babies whose mothers have "died or were not present, full-term babies who are sickly and those whose mothers are unable to breastfeed, due to lack of breast milk."

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  • Finding childcare is hard. It's even harder when you don't work 9 to 5.

    March 28, 2021 |

    Miami Herald |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    More than 50 percent of children from economically-disadvantaged families have at least one parent who works non-traditional schedule, which consists of hours outside of the 9am to 5pm. However, subsidized child care often does not apply to the few childcare facilities that do cater to families with nontraditional schedules. Over-regulation of child care, which makes it illegal for parents to leave children for more than 12 hours, also forces parents into unregulated options which don't qualify for federal subsidies. Expanding access to after-hours childcare is key to upward mobility.

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  • Airbnb-like Miami company helps parents explore childcare centers without the driving

    March 28, 2021 |

    Miami Herald |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    Parents in Miami-Dade county can now access an online directory of preschools and childcare options through prek.com. Research shows most parents find child care through word of mouth, which leaves those who are new in town, as well as immigrant parents, at a disadvantage. The website provides one-on-one services to help walk parents explore their options and offers a digital presence to many smaller facilities that lacked the time and resources to market online.

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  • Job-site centers ease parents' concerns — and increase employee retention

    March 28, 2021 |

    Miami Herald |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    Offices in South Florida are providing on-site child care for children of employees. The ease of having children nearby saves time, gives parents peace of mind, and increases employee retention. Although it’s growing in popularity, workplace daycare is a perk that only 6 percent of American employers offer. In Tennessee, school-based childcare programs have been effective in reducing teacher turnover - so much so that every new school built in Chattanooga will come equipped with a space for child care.

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  • The resistance: can viruses save us from drug-defying superbugs?

    March 28, 2021 |

    The Times |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that kill bacteria by latching on to and entering target cells and then multiplying and killing the host cell. Phages only attack bacteria, they can’t enter human cells, but the phage must be specific to the bacteria's DNA, which presents an obstacle because most health systems lack the capacity for such testing. To overcome this, researchers are developing phage cocktails that could be applied more widely, similar to antibiotics. A few locations around the world currently use phage treatment, particularly to treat the six most virulent antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

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