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  • Here's What $200 Billion in Covid Money Did for Students

    June 26, 2024 |

    Wall Street Journal |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: United States

    As COVID relief funding gets ready to end, studies show the funding has helped schools — particularly high-poverty schools — provide extra support to students to ensure they didn't fall behind, especially when it comes to math test scores.

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  • Could the Mississippi River benefit from Chesapeake Bay's strategy to improve water quality?

    June 21, 2024 |

    Wisconsin Watch |

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    Response Location: United States

    A unique regional cleanup program was designed to reduce the nutrient runoff in the Chesapeake Bay using a legally-enforceable pollution quota across six U.S. states.

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  • An experiment doled out money to homeless people in Denver, no strings attached. Here's what happened.  

    June 19, 2024 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    The Denver Basic Income Project provided people experiencing homelessness with no-strings-attached monthly stipends that they could spend however they’d like. At the end of the pilot, twice as many participants were in stable housing, more of them were working full time, and the nights that participants spent in shelters decreased by half.

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  • Denver Basic Income Project shares results after one year of cash payments to homeless Denverites

    June 18, 2024 |

    The Denver Gazette |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    The Denver Basic Income Project has provided more than $9.4 million in no-strings-attached payments to over 800 people experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit gives participants monthly stipends that they can spend however they see fit. As a result, more participants are finding housing, building financial stability, and finding stable employment.

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  • For child care workers, state aid for their own kids' care is 'life-changing'

    June 17, 2024 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Smithfield, Rhode Island

    To help address staffing shortages, states such as Rhode Island have launched pilot programs leveraging federal funding to subsidize child care costs for early childhood education workers. Child care centers say the programs have helped them attract and retain staff while making care more affordable for employees, but some states are struggling to make the funding permanent.

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  • This city just made it illegal to advertise SUVs. Here's why.

    June 15, 2024 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Scotland, Edinburgh

    Edinburgh’s city council banned fossil fuel advertisements on city property in hopes of making people less likely to opt for things like gas cars and international flights while removing a space for fossil fuel companies to mold their public image.

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  • Former foster youth are eligible for federal housing aid. Georgia isn't helping them get it

    June 11, 2024 |

    WABE |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    The federal Foster Youth to Independence program provides housing vouchers for young people leaving the foster system to help them keep up with rent as they transition to living on their own. But states have to coordinate the funding with local housing agencies, and in Georgia, a lack of coordination led to only eight vouchers being distributed since the program began.

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  • Free air conditioners available again in Pa. through utility assistance program

    June 10, 2024 |

    WHYY |

    Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania uses funding from the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to provide air-conditioning units and repair units for people who would otherwise be unable to afford them.

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  • Peace Through Resolution: Iseyin's Journey To Overcoming Religious Strife

    June 07, 2024 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Iseyin, Oyo

    Following years of religious strife and violence, several groups gathered to create a peace treaty, protecting each group’s right to safe, religious celebration. Since the creation of the peace agreement in 2022, both the Oró and Egungun religious festivals have taken place without any incidents of violence.

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  • Geothermal system is a US first

    June 05, 2024 |

    Smart Cities Dive |

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    Response Location: United States, Framingham, Massachusetts

    Eversource Energy, a utility company in Massachusetts, installed a networked geothermal system that provides heat for residential and commercial buildings across the city of Framingham. The connected system allows excess heat from one building to be redirected to another that needs it. It’s the first of its kind in the United States.

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