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How the Amy's Kitchen Boycott Worked, and What It Might Mean for Other Labor Organizers

Grace Hussain

June 26, 2024 |

Sentient |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, San Jose, California

Amy’s Kitchen workers led a two-year boycott of the company’s products with the support of the Food Empowerment Project, in an effort to petition for better working conditions. After several months, the company agreed to a meeting with the workers in which they crafted an informal agreement meeting their demands and guaranteeing they wouldn’t face punishments for their organizing.

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

Matt Barnum Rosie Ettenheim

June 26, 2024 |

Wall Street Journal |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

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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How waiting homes are saving lives of mothers, unborn babies

Agnes Kyotalengerire

June 26, 2024 |

New Vision |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Uganda, Kalongo

Waiting shelters, or maternity waiting homes, are residential facilities near medical centers where pregnant women who are considered “high risk” can stay so they’re close to medical care at all times for when the baby comes, or if complications arise. Over the years, waiting shelters have helped to substantially decrease maternal and infant mortality rates, as they both have increased access to specialized and emergency medical care.

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Homeschoolers Embrace AI, Even As Many Educators Keep It at Arms' Length

Greg Toppo

June 25, 2024 |

The 74 |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

Homeschools and microschools are embracing artificial intelligence as a tool to help students explore advanced topics, tailor learning to the student, and make organizing a curriculum easier.

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Tidal kites: New technology harnessing ocean energy

Adrienne Murray

June 25, 2024 |

BBC |

Video |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: Faroe Islands

The renewable energy technology company Minesto developed tidal kites that generate electricity from ocean tides. The machines are attached to the seabed and pushed through the water in a figure 8 pattern. The movement spins a turbine that generates electricity.

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The best plan to help refugees might also be the simplest

Jacob Kushner

June 23, 2024 |

Vox |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

The nonprofit GiveDirectly provides refugees with cash to help them sustain themselves, focusing on those living in cities, as they’re less likely to receive the same assistance as humanitarian camps do. Nearly 1,200 people were given $925 to spend however they wanted — some opening bank accounts, others starting businesses — and reported they were able to nearly double their monthly income and after six months, 88% of recipients were earning more money than ever before.

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

Bennet Goldstein

June 21, 2024 |

Wisconsin Watch |

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1500-3000 Words

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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What one Utah student learned in Hope Squad helped her save a friend's life

Sara Weber

June 21, 2024 |

The Salt Lake Tribune |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

The Hope Squad teaches students how to advocate for themselves and their peers and teaches the question, persuade, refer (QPR) approach to navigating mental health. While the students aren’t trained therapists, they help their peers get the mental health support they need. Over the years the program has referred thousands of students to mental healthcare professionals and decreased the rate of suicide in the school district.

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Meet the 'New' Scientists Engineering Uganda's Future

Hellen Kabahukya

June 20, 2024 |

Solutions Now Africa |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Uganda, Ntinda-Kampala

Young Engineers is a STEM education program that helps children build technical skills and knowledge through hands-on activities with a focus on problem-solving. The organization is women-led, and the majority of its 800 participants are girls.

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Alhambra neighbors work together to help those less fortunate

Ford Hatchett

June 20, 2024 |

KNXV-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

Volunteers and neighborhood residents gather at the Alhambra Beloved Community Church in Phoenix, Arizona, each week to provide meals, showers, and a place to get out of the summer heat to people who need it.

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