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Bad roads: Community bridges gap amid government neglect

Yahuza Bawage

February 19, 2024 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Karim-Lamido, Taraba State

After a badly needed road construction project was abandoned by officials and contractors, community members banded together to pool their resources and build wooden bridges that made the road passable again.

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Prison system works to combat health care coverage gap by enrolling people in Medicaid before release

Rachel Crumpler

February 13, 2024 |

North Carolina Health News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, North Carolina

With the new statewide Medicaid expansion, the Department of Adult Correction is working to ensure fewer people reenter society after incarceration and enter a healthcare coverage gap by helping people apply for Medicaid before release. With the Medicaid expansion, 80% of the 15,000 people released from prison each year are now eligible for coverage, and prison staff submit about 100 Medicaid applications each week.

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Can Baby Bonds Deliver on Promise to Close Rhode Island's Wealth Gap?

Nancy Lavin

February 10, 2024 |

Rhode Island Current |

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Response Location: United States, Connecticut

Connecticut and several other East Coast states are implementing baby bond programs to help children in low-income families generate wealth. The programs create trust funds for babies born into families on public health insurance that are managed by the state until they turn 18.

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Comox Valley Farmers' Market coupon needs have 'skyrocketed'

Madeline Dunnett

February 07, 2024 |

The Discourse |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Canada, Comox Valley, British Columbia

The BC Farmer’s Market Nutrition Coupon Program in British Columbia, Canada, provides lower-income families and seniors with coupons to purchase food at farmer’s markets. The program improves food security by ensuring more people have access to fresh, healthy food and supporting local farmers.

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Black Mayors Visit Innovative Temporary Housing Complex in LA

Solomon O. Smith

February 05, 2024 |

Inland Valley News |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

The Hilda L. Solis Care First Village provides temporary housing and support services for people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles with the goal of transitioning them into permanent housing. Residents get a private room with a TV and a shower and share other facilities like kitchens and laundry rooms.

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How communities worldwide are working to solve the water crisis

Paige Sutherland Meghna Chakrabarti

February 02, 2024 |

WBUR |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, California

Communities around the world are developing innovative technological solutions to the growing water crisis. In California, for example, the Orange County Water District runs a wastewater recycling plant that purifies the water enough to be released back into the underground aquifer that supplies drinking water.

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New cannabis dispensaries bring Sacramento closer to reaching social equity goals

Ken Magri

January 29, 2024 |

The Observer |

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Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

Sacramento’s Cannabis Opportunity and Racial Equity program is helping people who were adversely affected by discrimination during America’s war on drugs to start businesses in the regulated cannabis industry. Qualifying entrepreneurs receive wraparound support including funding and small-business education. So far, 10 dispensary licenses have been awarded to participants.

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Student loans: How a new White House forgiveness plan works

Ira Porter

January 26, 2024 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

The Biden-Harris administration’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan is helping more student loan borrowers achieve forgiveness. The program reduces monthly payments based on the person’s income and family size and covers interest costs to stop the overall amount from ballooning.

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NM endowment offers perpetual funding source for rural libraries

Diana Alba Soular

January 26, 2024 |

Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New Mexico

The New Mexico Rural Library Initiative advocated for an endowment fund to create a perpetual funding source for a group of community libraries in small, low-income towns. The money in the fund is invested, and the interest earned is distributed to the libraries each year.

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This German village is embracing integration

Killian Bayer

January 26, 2024 |

Deutsche Welle (DW) |

Video |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: Germany, Hebertshausen, Bavaria

The Heberthausen Asylum Support Group helps incoming migrants and refugees find housing, jobs and learn the German language to integrate with society and work towards citizenship.

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