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  • Staying Connected: Moms Who Pump in Prison

    February 04, 2019 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Riverside Correction Facility in Philadelphia has implemented a program that allows incarcerated new mothers the opportunity to both learn about the benefits of maintaining breast milk supply, and also provide it for their newborns. The lactation program not only carries significant health benefits for the infant and mother, but also encourages crucial bonding between the two.

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  • Australia's Corporate Boards Shrink the Gender Gap

    February 04, 2019 |

    OZY |

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    Response Location: Australia

    In Australia, 29.7 percent of the top 200 companies in the Australian Securities Exchange are women. While other countries are finding it more difficult to increase the number of women represented on company boards, Australia has seen a cultural shift. Rather than imposing quotas, which often have negative effects, Australian investors have recognized the positive effects of diverse boards, and pushed companies to recruit and retain in exchange for their votes and continued investment.

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  • When It's Hard to Make Ends Meet, Can Smart Apps Help?

    February 04, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Elsie, Michigan

    Smartphone technology levels the playing field for low-income people, utilizing services that manage SNAP food-assistance budgets, pay parking tickets on time, payday loans, and more. Applications like Fresh EBT work with families to create budgets to better manage their monthly income.

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  • A Faster Way to Find Illicit Fins

    February 04, 2019 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: Hong Kong

    New DNA testing technology is showing promise as a faster, cheaper way to determine if a shark fin came from a protected species, an important task to curbing the illicit shark fin trade across the world. While experts warn that the technology won't act as a deterrent to the practice, it will help authorities better track and determine if shipments are suspect.

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  • Smart Grid Experiment Saves Participants the Equivalent of One Electric Bill Per Year

    February 04, 2019 |

    IEEE Spectrum |

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    Response Location: Turkey, Istanbul

    Gamifying energy-efficient behavior can help consumers adjust their habits. Project GresBAS (Grid Responsive Society through Building Automation Systems) incentivizes consumers by allowing them to compete against their own personal records, as well as their neighbors. The Project has piloted studies in Turkey and Portugal, signaling the broader possibilities of gamifying user interactions with smart grid technologies.

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  • “Reverse Innovation” Could Save Lives. Why Aren't We Embracing It?

    February 04, 2019 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    DIY solutions can overcome the scarcity of medical resources in developing countries and save lives. A simple solution such as replacing expensive uterine balloons with more readily accessible condoms has already helped to give thousands of mothers access to a potentially life-saving medical procedure preventing postpartum hemorrhage. The transfer of this and other proven DIY solutions can help cut health-care costs in more affluent countries with low-cost innovations.

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  • Women Who Dare To Bicycle In Pakistan

    February 03, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Pakistan, Karachi

    In Karachi, Pakistan, a group of women gathers every week to bike around the city, an act that works to bring awareness to equal rights between men and women. Despite backlash from men in the community, the bicyclists encourage each other to stand up to societal norms and ask the question, "If they can ride, why can't we?"

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  • Buffalo Exchange collects furs to give back to animals

    February 03, 2019 |

    Daily Emerald |

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    Response Location: United States, Eugene, Oregon

    Second-hand clothing store Buffalo Exchange receives donations of difficult to sell fur coats and sends them to Coats for Cubs, which repurposes the coats into bedding for recovering wild animals. The real fur bedding soothes and comforts the animals as they recover.

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  • Overhaul of Utah's public defender system ‘a huge benefit' for Juab County

    February 02, 2019 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Nephi, Utah

    In 2016, the state of Utah took control over the funding model for individual county's legal defenders in order to better use resources. Thanks to the restructuring, in just a year, counties have seen noticeable increases in both manpower and budgets which not only betters the public defenders, but also those they're defending.

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  • Jail or Bail? There's a New Option

    February 01, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Between the opposite extremes of jailing too many people unnecessarily before trial or releasing too many unsupervised, New York City judges in 2016 began to use a "supervised release" option. In the first three years, the program's 11,000 defendants showed up for court dates 89% of the time while 8% were rearrested for new felony crimes. The program, which requires people check in regularly with a case manager, helped reduce the jail population by more than a third. The approach tries to balance the needs of public safety with the reality that even a short jail stay carries its own social harms.

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