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For A Small Rural Texas Town, the Solution to a Teacher Shortage Is a Motel

Bekah McNeel

September 29, 2022 |

The 74 |

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Response Location: United States, Fort Stockton, Texas

The Fort Stockton Independent School District in Texas is attracting qualified teachers with high pay and cheap rent at school-owned housing.

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Making Money While Recycling in Nigeria

Ahmad Adedimeji Amobi

September 28, 2022 |

Instick |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Osogbo, Osun

Mygbolat Waste Management is a wholesale waste collection business in Osogbo, Nigeria, that is working to combat unemployment and create wealth for its employees while helping the environment by cleaning and selling recyclables.

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How this Texas university helps farmworkers' kids through college

Valeria Olivares

September 28, 2022 |

Dallas Morning News |

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Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

The College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) is a federal program that was developed as a result of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Higher Education Act of 1965, which was aimed at helping students living in poverty navigate the education process. More than 2,890 students — mostly from low-income, Hispanic families who do seasonal farm work — have gone through the program over the past five decades.

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How ecotourism in Konkan promotes climate-friendly tourism

Vinaya Kurtkoti

September 28, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: India

In India, experience-based tourism promotes sustainability and conservation awareness while supporting local economies. For this style of tourism, tourists experience life like local indigenous communities in everything from eating to helping in agricultural fields.

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As COVID-19 Subsides, Online Memory Cafes for Dementia Linger

Elizabeth Hewitt

September 28, 2022 |

Next Avenue |

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Response Location: United States, Barre, Vermont

Virtual memory cafes for people with dementia are able to reach more people, avoid transportation and mobility barriers, and open new possibilities — like making new friends across the ocean. First pioneered in the Netherlands in the 1990s, memory cafes have spread around the world as a way for people experiencing memory loss and caregivers can find community and companionship.

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California's fire crisis requires carceral reform and a Just Transition

Ray Levy Uyeda

September 28, 2022 |

Prism |

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Response Location: United States, California

A California law is making it easier for firefighters trained while incarcerated to get the emergency medical technician licensing required to work at municipal fire stations once released. The new law helps formerly incarcerated firefighters expunge felony convictions from their records that would otherwise prevent them access to licensing.

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For More Than 20 Guaranteed Income Projects, the Data Is In

Sarah Holder

September 28, 2022 |

Bloomberg |

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Response Location: United States

Guaranteed basic income programs, which gained prevalence during the pandemic, have helped people make ends need and purchase necessities during times of need. The hope is to break down stigmas around welfare, dispel misconceptions, and ultimately produce data that compels national policy change.

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Four-day workweek: Why more companies are taking the plunge

Laurent Belsie, Shafi Musaddique, Erika Page

September 28, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, New York

Several companies are beginning to lean into the four-day workweek. It is also being seen as a new recruiting tool that resonates with a younger generation that prioritizes work-life balance. There are even nonprofits like 4 Day Week Global, that are coordinating pilot programs across the globe to encourage more companies to adopt a 32-hour workweek with no cut in pay.

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Tiny Oregon town hosts 1st wind-solar-battery 'hybrid' plant

Gillian Flaccus

September 28, 2022 |

Associated Press |

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Response Location: United States, Oregon

The Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility in Oregon is the first in the United States to use wind energy, solar energy, and battery storage on a large scale to provide consistent energy without using fossil fuels to fill gaps.

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'No matter the law, no matter the stigma, no matter the cost.' This European network helps people access abortions

Kara Fox

September 28, 2022 |

CNN |

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Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

The Abortion Without Borders (AWB) network is a grassroots organization that helps people from restrictive countries access safe abortions in countries that legally provide them. From December 2020 to December 2021, AWB has helped 32,000 people from Poland access abortions across Europe – an almost six-fold increase from the previous year.

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