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  • Former foster youth are eligible for federal housing aid. Georgia isn't helping them get it

    June 11, 2024 |

    WABE |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    The federal Foster Youth to Independence program provides housing vouchers for young people leaving the foster system to help them keep up with rent as they transition to living on their own. But states have to coordinate the funding with local housing agencies, and in Georgia, a lack of coordination led to only eight vouchers being distributed since the program began.

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  • New Jersey Ditched Cash Bail. Research Shows the Reform Didn't Increase Violence.

    June 04, 2024 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    New Jersey voters approved an amendment that removed cash bail so people would no longer be incarcerated because they couldn’t afford to pay it. Now, the courts evaluate each person’s risk to the public, of skipping trial, and of reoffense to determine whether they are held in detention until their trial.

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  • How a Bipartisan Group Overcame the Odds to Pass the TikTok Divestment Bill

    May 03, 2024 |

    The Dispatch |

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    Response Location: United States

    To drum up bipartisan support for a bill that will require social media app TikTok to divest from the Chinese Communist Party or lose access to American users, legislators involved multiple committees in the process and enlisted the support of the Department of Justice to appeal directly to Democrats. The final version of the bill was attached to legislation providing aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan and passed with little opposition.

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  • Can't install your own solar panels? Some areas let you join a community project.

    May 03, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    States across the United States are passing legislation that supports the development of community solar programs. These projects allow community members who can’t install their own solar panels to subscribe to other solar projects nearby, often on farms, schools, or stores. Alongside the property owner, subscribers help fund the project and save money on future electricity bills based on the power generated.

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  • Krakow Can Breathe Again

    April 15, 2024 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Poland, Krakow

    An activist organization in Poland, Krakow Smog Alarm, teaches people about poor air quality in their city and helps them organize together to lobby their local governments for effective clean air measures.

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  • The climate watchdog holding the UK government to account

    April 04, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Following the passage of the Climate Change Act, the United Kingdom created a Climate Change Committee to oversee the country’s efforts to reach net-zero emissions. The committee acts as a watchdog by analyzing ways to decarbonize the economy and publishing information that can be leveraged by policymakers, non-governmental organizations, and private sector industries. Its model has since been replicated around the world.

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  • North Carolina tried to rebuild affordable housing after a hurricane. It took half a decade.

    April 03, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s disaster recovery program provides federal funding to build affordable apartments in areas that have lost significant housing stock to disasters such as hurricanes. But due to the required congressional approval process and complex regulations, projects funded by the program often take so long to complete that people affected by the disaster are not able to benefit from the housing. In North Carolina, one such development opened to tenants more than five years after Hurricane Florence struck the area.

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  • Why Portland failed where Portugal succeeded in decriminalizing drugs

    March 28, 2024 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    After the Oregon Legislature voted to reverse a law decriminalizing drug possession for personal use in response to a spike in overdoses, advocates attributed the legislation’s failure to poor implementation, complications related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and inadequate time to produce results.

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  • Plastic bag bans have already prevented billions of bags from being used, report finds

    January 23, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    A plastic bag ban in New Jersey helped eliminate more than 5.5 billion plastic bags annually, keeping the single-use plastic out of the environment where it can harm wildlife and contribute to pollution. However, some researchers question whether plastic bags are truly worse for the environment than single-use paper bags or reusable cotton bags, and some states have passed laws preventing local governments from adopting their own bans on plastic bags.

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  • Native nations with scarce internet are building their own broadband networks

    January 17, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Hopi Reservation, United States, Arizona

    In an effort to address a lack of broadband access, Indigenous communities are working together, and with local organizations, to acquire funding to bring internet access to their communities and close the digital divide.

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