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  • Financial help for renters during COVID slashed Colorado evictions by nearly 60%, new study finds

    October 28, 2022 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Federal funding for rental assistance and a moratorium on evictions for past-due rent reduced evictions in Colorado by more than half over the past two years.

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  • They built a skate park in Nebraska's poorest county. Then they watched Junior do something priceless.

    October 28, 2022 |

    Flatwater Free Press |

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    Response Location: Omaha Tribe, United States, Omaha, Nebraska

    On native land where the local youth are struggling with depression and anxiety, a new skate park has been built as studies have shown that skateboarding is good for teenagers’ mental health – especially teens living in isolated conditions. The skate park helps get kids out of the house and serves as a social support network, fostering a sense of belonging.

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  • False information is everywhere. 'Pre-bunking' tries to head it off early

    October 28, 2022 |

    NPR |

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    Governments, companies, and nonprofits are using a strategy called "pre-bunking" to teach people the tactics and strategies behind misinformation so that they can recognize and scrutinize it when they see it online. After Twitter released several dozen pre-bunks about elections in the United States and Brazil, about 39 percent of users they surveyed said they were more confident that there wouldn't be election fraud, and about half said they were able to pause and question what they saw in online posts.

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  • Environmental Degradation : How Women Coalition is Championing Restoration of Peace in Niger Delta

    October 27, 2022 |

    Page TV Nigeria |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, River State

    The Coalition of Ogoni Women is working to foster peace in their communities and reduce youth participation in crime through open communication with youth and government officials while also advocating for women to have more authority in the communities.

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  • How one unmarked van is quietly delivering abortion pills on Colorado's border

    October 27, 2022 |

    KUNC |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Just The Pill operates a mobile clinic along the Colorado border to distribute abortion medications to patients from states that restrict abortion access after an initial telehealth consultation.

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  • To get young Filipinos into farming, initiatives reach them via TikTok, school

    October 27, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Kids Who Farm, an initiative co-founded by a 12-year-old in the Phillippines, is working to teach young people how to start micro-farms and grow the waning youth interest in agriculture.

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  • An option for death brings a mindset for life

    October 27, 2022 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Natural organic reduction, also called human composting, is growing in popularity across the U.S. as a more environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional burial practices and cremation. During the process bodies are placed in vessels with organic materials like wood chips to be broken down by bacteria. Once the process is over, families are free to do what they want with the composted remains.

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  • Elimu ya wazee

    October 27, 2022 |

    Look Up TV |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    Elimu ya watu wazima imesaidia wakazi wa kaunti ya Bungoma kupata ajira.Hii ni baada ya wazee ambao walikuwa hawana elimu kurudi shuleni na kusoma. Kwa sasa wanathaminiwa katika jamii kama watu wenye tajriba baada ya kupata vyeti.Wengi wa waliopata elimu hiyo kwa sasa wamepata ajira sehemu mbalimbali.

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  • Social Business Profile: Clear Voice – the award-winning language service helping refugees

    October 27, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Clear Voice specializes in interpreting, translation, and transcription services via phone, video, and face-to-face, as well as services to asylum seekers through its parent charity Migrant Help. The organization has been steadily growing since its inception in 2006 but has more than tripled its staff in the past 18 months.

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  • Could Seaweed Help Slow Climate Change?

    October 26, 2022 |

    NBCLX |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A type of red seaweed can be added to cows' diets to reduce the methane they emit.

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