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  • New York City Launches Initiative to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Maternal Death

    July 30, 2018 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To combat racial disparities in maternal health care, New York is funding a partnership program between the city and communities to improve maternal healthcare for women of color. Both public and private hospitals will implement implicit bias training and the city will work to improve its data collection. Hospitals will also receive funds for health coordinators to make sure women are accessing care.

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  • Go Home, South Korea Tells Workers, as Stress Takes Its Toll

    July 28, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    To change its culture of overwork, South Korea passed a law capping the workweek at 52 hours for many employees. The move follows the introduction of the five-day workweek in 2004. Young people are especially supportive of the changes, but some issues remain unclear such as how to record the hours required for business trips and entertaining clients, as well as how to prevent bosses from giving their employees work to do from home.

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  • The Downsides of Property Tax Caps

    July 26, 2018 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States

    Property tax caps have been found to exacerbate economic inequality. They restrict funding for basic services and push municipalities to increase sales taxes and fees instead.

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  • How opera found an open ear in South Africa's townships

    July 25, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

    Shirley Apthorp was inspired by Venezuela's El Sistema, a national system that provides impoverished kids access to music education. She wanted to do something similar with opera in South Africa, were the genre was once a privilege enjoyed by white people. So, Apthort created Unculo, an organization that aims to support social change through music.

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  • How environmental outreach efforts are targeting Philly Latinos: The most interested in climate change, study shows

    July 25, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Studies have shown that U.S. Latinos are one of the mostly highly invested groups in helping fight against climate change, yet are also often left out of the conversation. Philadelphia’s Office of Sustainability as well as other local agencies are making an effort to bridge that gap and engage Latinos through better targeted environmental outreach efforts.

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  • Drive Against Gerrymandering Finds New Life in Ballot Initiatives

    July 23, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Public opinion is turning against gerrymandering faster than the Supreme Court. Five states are holding ballot measures on the issue spurred ahead by tens of thousands of citizen’s signatures, and political uncertainty is pushing legislators themselves to get behind apolitical redistricting commissions.

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  • ICE Has Conducted Hundreds of Raids in New York Since Trump Came to Power. Here's What Those Operations Look Like.

    July 23, 2018 |

    The Intercept |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In order to understand and end legal and extralegal ways the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency terrorizes immigrant communities it is essential to understand where and how ICE raids are happening. ICEWatch is a collaboration between immigrant advocacy organizations to map ICE raids—mostly in New York City—and document the tactics, location, and story of the raid.

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  • Keby sme boli Rómovia, z Británie by sme sa už nevrátili

    July 22, 2018 |

    Tyzden |

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    Response Location: England, Sheffield

    V ostrom kontraste s ich slovenskou vlasťou, Anglicko otvorilo svoju náruč rómskym prisťahovalcom a ponúklo im súbor opatrení, ktoré im majú pomôcť uspieť v ich novej krajine. Rómovia, ktorí sa stali obeťami rasizmu na oboch miestach, ale najmä medzi Slovákmi, dostávajú v Anglicku zdravotné poradenstvo a pomoc pri vzdelávaní, ktorých podstatou je inklúzia. Napríklad britská politika v oblasti školskej dochádzky zvýšila dochádzku rómskych detí o 30 percent a len málo z nich je posunutých do špeciálnych škôl.

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  • How Luxury Hotels And Restaurants In Developing Countries Fight Food Waste

    July 20, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: India

    Luxury hotels collect and reuse food waste. The hotels audit their waste, then useful ways to give it new life—as compost, animal feed, or even biogas.

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  • The cleaners who won fair wages and a way to belong

    July 18, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    Professors, workers’ rights advocates, and workers themselves united to change the standard for the compensation of cleaning staff at local universities. Low paid service jobs, including cleaning, tend to be outsourced. This leads to lower pay and a lack of job security. Now there is a trend for universities to bring cleaning services in-house, increasing wages for workers and creating a better work culture for all.

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