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  • State Leaders Are Turning to Students to Shape Education Policy

    More students than ever are now providing input on education policies through state boards and councils, with 33 states offering opportunities for student engagement in the policymaking process. Student representatives serving in these positions say the experience has bolstered their interest in politics and given them the chance to weigh in on important issues, and some have successfully lobbied for official voting rights on their boards.

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  • For A Small Rural Texas Town, the Solution to a Teacher Shortage Is a Motel

    The Fort Stockton Independent School District in Texas is attracting qualified teachers with high pay and cheap rent at school-owned housing.

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  • Outpatient therapies now offered locally target treatment-resistant depression

    Transcranial magnetic stimulation is being used to treat people with treatment-resistant depression. The noninvasive procedure uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerves in the brain to improve symptoms of depression. So far 19 people have undergone the program at Brattleboro Retreat — many of which have seen improvements in their symptoms — and more than 300 treatments have been completed to date.

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  • Making Money While Recycling in Nigeria

    Mygbolat Waste Management is a wholesale waste collection business in Osogbo, Nigeria, that is working to combat unemployment and create wealth for its employees while helping the environment by cleaning and selling recyclables.

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  • Meet the women fighting air pollution in Delhi's slums

    The Mahila Housing Trust initiative and the social impact agency Purpose are raising awareness of the dangerous air pollution women are exposed to when working in construction in Delhi. They’re working with locals to educate the public, encourage mask-wearing, and teach women to use air-quality monitors and report issues on an app.

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  • How this Texas university helps farmworkers' kids through college

    The College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) is a federal program that was developed as a result of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Higher Education Act of 1965, which was aimed at helping students living in poverty navigate the education process. More than 2,890 students — mostly from low-income, Hispanic families who do seasonal farm work — have gone through the program over the past five decades.

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  • 'No matter the law, no matter the stigma, no matter the cost.' This European network helps people access abortions

    The Abortion Without Borders (AWB) network is a grassroots organization that helps people from restrictive countries access safe abortions in countries that legally provide them. From December 2020 to December 2021, AWB has helped 32,000 people from Poland access abortions across Europe – an almost six-fold increase from the previous year.

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  • For More Than 20 Guaranteed Income Projects, the Data Is In

    Guaranteed basic income programs, which gained prevalence during the pandemic, have helped people make ends need and purchase necessities during times of need. The hope is to break down stigmas around welfare, dispel misconceptions, and ultimately produce data that compels national policy change.

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  • How ecotourism in Konkan promotes climate-friendly tourism

    In India, experience-based tourism promotes sustainability and conservation awareness while supporting local economies. For this style of tourism, tourists experience life like local indigenous communities in everything from eating to helping in agricultural fields.

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  • Four-day workweek: Why more companies are taking the plunge

    Several companies are beginning to lean into the four-day workweek. It is also being seen as a new recruiting tool that resonates with a younger generation that prioritizes work-life balance. There are even nonprofits like 4 Day Week Global, that are coordinating pilot programs across the globe to encourage more companies to adopt a 32-hour workweek with no cut in pay.

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