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  • How South African activists hope to integrate cities built to divide

    September 11, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

    The South African government has provided free apartments to millions of people since the end of apartheid, in part as a way to address structural inequalities rooted in apartheid. The program has been a lifeline for many but has also exacerbated segregation because the housing is built just outside of cities, where Black, Asian, and mixed-race South Africans were once legally required to live. This creates new structural inequalities because it makes it harder to access good jobs, which tend to be in the city center. Advocates are now petitioning the government to build housing in the city center.

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  • What happened when the BC government started selling cannabis Audio icon

    September 11, 2020 |

    Capital Daily |

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    Response Location: Canada, Nanaimo, British Columbia

    Legalized marijuana sales in Canada were supposed to make the industry safe, stable, and prosperous. But the rollout of licenses for pre-existing private dispensaries has turned into a debacle for small businesses in British Columbia. Ignoring the advice given to Health Canada by dispensaries seeking licenses about sensible ways to regulate, the agency delayed approving licensing applications for months, only to begin raiding applicants' businesses as soon as competing government dispensaries started opening. Hundreds were put out of work and quality product grew scarce.

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  • Community colleges pivot to support their vulnerable students

    September 10, 2020 |

    Inside Higher Ed |

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    Response Location: United States, Norwalk, California

    Community college administrations across the U.S. are helping students continue their education during the pandemic by helping them address basic needs. Cerritos College in Norwalk, California has given away 300 free laptops and already ordered 200 more. Reynolds Community College in Virginia took a targeted approach by focusing on providing technology aid like loaning out computers, setting up internet hotspots in parking lots and, but the pandemic has exacerbated a longstanding struggle for many community colleges across the U.S.—lower federal funding per student when compared to flagship institutions.

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  • Gaining traction: With an eviction crisis still on the horizon, sanctioned overnight parking lots provide temporary relief

    September 10, 2020 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    The nonprofit Homeless Outreach Providing Encouragement (HOPE) began SafeLot, a program providing an approved parking lot where people living in vehicles can spend the night safely. Safelots have sprung up nationwide, particularly during high unemployment thanks to the pandemic. In Boulder, they've created tension with the regional agency charged with reducing homelessness. Its Housing First approach, emphasizing more permanent housing solutions, strikes some as contradicting safelots' shorter-term fix. Safelot advocates say it offers stability that acts as a bridge to a more settled lifestyle.

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  • Por que o Uruguai tem tão poucos casos de covid-19

    September 10, 2020 |

    Nexo Jornal |

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    Response Location: Uruguay

    A reportagem é sobre como o Uruguai conseguiu ter o melhor resultado de enfrentamento contra a pandemia de Covid-19 na América Latina. Mostra que a estabilidade política, valorização da ciência e rastreamento de casos foram algumas das ações efetivas.

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  • How a $3 billion USDA coronavirus program is helping feed S.C. families

    September 10, 2020 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Bluffton, South Carolina

    A new initiative from the U.S. Department of Agriculture is helping connect farmers with those who are facing food insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic. The program, known as Farmers to Families, allocates monetary contracts to companies that go towards distributing boxes of produce to families. In South Carolina, one farm has been able to distribute over 5.2 million pounds of food throughout the southeast region of the state.

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  • Portland's High Stakes Experiment to Shrink the Role of Police in Fighting Gun Violence

    September 10, 2020 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Two years after reorganizing a police gun-enforcement unit to focus it on an evidence-based approach to preventing retaliatory shootings, Portland city leaders abolished the unit in a round of police budget cuts and failed to reinvest that money in community-based alternatives that don't rely on the police. The result, criminologists say, is a worst-case scenario: a policing reform that creates a vacuum and could be to blame for an alarming spike in gun violence. The most effective solutions, they say, blend effective policing with proven community-based programs.

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  • Future Mechanics Return To Class In Person

    September 10, 2020 |

    New Haven Independent |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    Gateway Community College in New Haven, Connecticut is adapting a class that's pretty difficult to take online—automotive repair. Although 90 to 92% of the college's classes continue remotely, the automotive repair class has reduced class size from 18 to 12, instituted social distancing, frequent face shield disinfection, and open-air space for students to continue to get a hands-on education when it comes to fixing cars, and learning from mistakes.

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  • Como pequenos agricultores e vaqueiros mantêm o Cerrado vivo na Bahia

    September 10, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Correntina, Bahia

    A reportagem mostra que pequenos agricultores preservam o cerrado na Bahia ao criar gado em terras de uso coletivo, coletar espécies nativas e ao plantar alimentos orgânicos. A preservação ambiental dos agricultores também ajudam a manter rios vivos.

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  • NYPD Study: Implicit Bias Training Changes Minds, Not Necessarily Behavior

    September 10, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    After all 36,000 New York Police Department officers took required training in recognizing implicit racial bias, more officers understood how racism may increase officers' aggressiveness but there was no evidence that this awareness translated into a less racially disparate outcome in the numbers of people stopped and frisked. Since the protests of police bias that started in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014, most states have imposed mandatory implicit-bias training on police. NYPD's study is a rare measurement of the effects such training can have.

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