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  • The profound impact of giving American families a little more cash

    May 16, 2022 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States

    The expanded child tax credit payments provided expanded eligibility for families to receive higher credits per child. Rather than receiving the credit when filing taxes, families received a cash payment per child each month, enabling them to use the money to meet their specific needs. The program provided a cushion for millions of families struggling to cover their expenses each month but expired in 2022.

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  • India's 'Open Prisons' Are a Marvel of Trust-Based Incarceration

    May 12, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India, Rajasthan

    The Sanganer open prison serves as an important alternative to traditional incarceration in India by remaining open for 12 hours a day and allowing inmates to go out. It is one of 88 open prisons in India that works on a model of reform and helps inmates to keep their connection with work, family, and society. In doing so, it enables the development of trust as well as skills that can help them not just during incarceration but also after release.

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  • A Visually Impaired Nigerian Is Training Others To Use Gadgets With Ease

    May 12, 2022 |

    HumAngle |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kogi State

    In a country where the prevalence of blindness for all ages is 4.2% of the population, Zions Assistive Tech Solutions (ZATS) trains people who are blind on how to effectively use technology like phones and computers.

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  • Laughing Bear Bakery has a recipe for a fresh start out of prison

    May 11, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    At her non-profit business Laughing Bear Bakery, retired chaplain Kalen McAllister hires only those with a criminal record and offers them a chance at employment, gaining work experience, and rebuilding their lives.

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  • ‘I had to be broken to be fixed': the courses trying to change abusive men

    May 09, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Cheshire County

    LifeLine is an intensive, multi-week course that works with perpetrators of abuse to encourage behavior change in them. It is run by My CWA, one among a growing number of non-profits that have been accredited by Respect, UK's lead organization for programs for perpetrators, to run similar courses that follow carefully drafted principles. The aim has been to support survivors of domestic abuse more holistically by addressing the root cause, and now with compelling evidence to show that the approach works, the Home Office has also come aboard.

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  • At these US colleges everyone works and there's no tuition

    May 06, 2022 |

    NewsNation |

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    Response Location: United States

    Work colleges are providing an affordable path to obtaining degrees by requiring all students to work 15 hours a week in exchange for no tuition fees. The funding for the colleges comes from “a mixture of private donations, Pell Grants, and sustaining funding from hefty endowments.”

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  • U.S. orchestras are still mostly white. Here's how to change that

    May 05, 2022 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Since 1990, the Detroit Symphony's African American Orchestra Fellowship has offered two-year stints to Black musicians in an effort to diversify the group's membership. Fellows have gone on to join top-25 orchestras, win jobs around the world, and work as teachers, freelancers, and arts administrators, but racial disparities still persist in orchestras across the country.

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  • How cellphones transformed life in a women's prison in Argentina

    May 03, 2022 |

    Rest of World |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Buenos Aires

    As Argentine went into strict quarantine in March 2020 and prison rules got stricter, the Court of Appeals in the Province of Buenos Aires allowed the use of cellphones to inmates to ease some of their isolation. It is one of four provinces that legally implemented this measure to last the span of COVID restrictions, but the ruling is still in place and has allowed inmates to keep in touch with loved ones, study, learn new skills, use digital payments, and even participate in virtual protests,

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  • Disaggregation is essential to achieve data justice for Asian Americans

    May 02, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Invisible No More campaign has fought to disaggregate data relating to public health and economic outcomes for Asian American and Pacific Islander groups, which include more than 40 different ethnic groups. Outreach to community-based partners and allies and political campaigning led to the passage of AB 6896, which requires state data be broken down for 14 Asian American and Pacific Islander ethnic groups.

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  • Program turns Tucson police into 'street-corner problem solvers'

    May 01, 2022 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Tucson’s Place Network Investigations program puts dedicated teams in areas where crime is more likely to occur, using community engagement to learn more about residents’ needs and their concerns around local crime. Tucson's program has also partnered with community organizations to offer services as part of public outreach, such as vaccination clinics and food distribution, but some have criticized the initiative as over-policing of marginalized communities.

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