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  • Banning refugees from having jobs hurts, not helps, local workers

    October 09, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Turkey

    Host governments tend to be wary of allowing refugees to move freely and work legally. However, integrating refugees into the labor market as quickly as possible reduces the concentration of newcomers in the informal sector, benefiting both locals and refugees in the long run.

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  • Can medical outreaches for maternal health bridge the access gap in the Federal Capital Territory?

    October 09, 2018 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Gwagwalada, Federal Capital Territory

    Medical professionals travel to remote areas of Nigeria with little access to family planning or maternal health care to hand out resources such as condoms or birth control and to train villages' Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) on updated safe birth practices. The team, called the PeachAid Medical Initiative, has reached over 30,000 women and 400 TBAs through medical outreach to rural communities since 2015. The work at large is meant to address the high maternal death rate in Nigeria.

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  • How Independence, Kansas, survived losing its hospital and what it means for endangered health care in rural Kansas

    October 03, 2018 |

    The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Independence, Kansas

    After losing its only hospital, finding a sustainable model to provide emergency care proved difficult. The city increased EMS resources and, after years of negotiation and fundraising, Labette Health opened the Independence Healthcare Center. The Center includes an emergency room, a helipad, and space to accommodate patients for up to 36 hours. Patients who need more extensive care are transferred to hospitals in other towns. The building also has a rural health clinic with services like radiology, a lab, and a cancer infusion center. The sites average 500 and 1,000 patients a month respectively.

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  • Alternative toilet facilities in schools attract more children in Kibera

    October 02, 2018 |

    Talk Africa |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Kibera, Nairobi

    In a slum in Kiberia, Kenya, a new invention called Peepoople Kenya (or Peepoo for short) is addressing a mounting sanitation issue from open defecation and lack of clean facilities. The solution is a single-use, biodegradable toilet (via a bag that spreads across a small pot) in new and maintained facilities. Teachers and pupils testify to the cleanliness and usability of the toilets and have even found unexpected benefits as well, like the facilities in a safer location and less time lost from lessons by waiting in line for a latrine.

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  • Worker Co-ops Catch on in Philadelphia

    October 01, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Worker co-ops, a business model that many people are not aware of, are gaining momentum in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Cooperative Alliance (PACA) has helped push more education and funding around co-ops to come to the city. Specifically, 20/20 is a program that invited 20 groups interested in working as co-ops to learn together. The co-op model has the potential to help immigrants, women, and people of color who are traditionally underrepresented in business.

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  • Here's What Investing in Economic Justice Looks Like

    September 28, 2018 |

    Next City |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Montgomery, Alabama

    Hope Credit Union has a mission: serving mostly black, marginalized communities in the South whose capital was historically displaced through slavery. In 2017, the credit union gave out $100 million in loans. ‘That total includes 61 business loans, 2,825 consumer loans, and 287 home mortgages, of which 87 percent went to first-time homebuyers.”

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  • Can American Men and Women Ever Really Be Equal?

    September 27, 2018 |

    Time Magazine |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    Sweden has a reputation for being one of the most socially-progressive and gender-equal countries in the world. This article breaks down the different policies that Sweden has become so famous for and looks at its myriad of effects on citizens. Author Irin Carmon concludes that this case study tells us that working towards gender equality will be long and arduous and not always perfect, but entirely possible.

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  • Alabama may have solutions to the nation's Black maternal health crisis

    September 24, 2018 |

    Scalawag |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Alabama

    In one of the worst states to have a pregnancy, midwives might be the answer. In Alabama, activists pushed for the re-legalization of professional midwifery. Now, midwifes in the state are providing care for mothers, and are hoping “to prevent many of the conditions that lead to unfavorable outcomes in the first place.” “The families who participate in this model are more satisfied, feel more empowered, feel more prepared for birth, initiate breastfeeding at higher rates and have fewer low-birth weight babies.”

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  • India launches ‘Modicare,' the world's biggest government health program

    September 23, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India, New Delhi

    India launched a new nationwide healthcare program dubbed “Modicare.” The massive plan is supposed to provide healthcare to 500 million people. Most importantly, it will provide “poor families insurance of up to $6,950 in hospitals, a significant sum in India.”

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  • A Recipe Against Harassment

    September 17, 2018 |

    Shondaland |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Chef Erin Wade, and her staff, decided they were going to do something about servers getting sexually harassed by customers. So, they implemented a colored-coded system that ranks behaviors according to a certain color. Since the system was implemented, unwanted advanced and touching decreased. "It's about community building; building a truly great company and also creating social change through different means."

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