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  • In a Brooklyn kitchen, a Statue of Liberty spirit offers a fresh start

    January 13, 2021 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Newly arrived immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers have found a pathway to employment through Emma’s Torch. The nonprofit eatery pays students to learn culinary skills. The program is an important stepping stone for the new arrivals to gain a foothold in the restaurant industry.

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  • For Some Transgender People, Pandemic Paves Path To Transition

    January 13, 2021 |

    Connecticut Health Investigative Team |

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    Response Location: United States, Connecticut

    In Connecticut, the adoption of telehealth services during the coronavirus pandemic has eliminated a number of barriers many transgender people seeking to transition. Even though programs and clinics existed prior to the pandemic, the option to use telehealth instead allows patients to "seek care from wherever they want, wearing whatever they choose, presenting however they feel comfortable."

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  • Farmers Can be Isolated and Unsure How to Seek Support. One State is Trying to Help.

    January 13, 2021 |

    Route Fifty |

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    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    The state of Wisconsin has launched a pilot initiative that aims to help farmers who are dealing with job stressors access mental health services including "a 24-hour wellness hotline, tele-counseling sessions and vouchers for in-person visits with participating mental health providers." While some of the services have proved more successful than the others, as a whole, use of the counseling services has increased, especially as the coronavirus pandemic continues.

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  • World in Progress: Colombian women access tele-abortions during pandemic

    January 13, 2021 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Colombia

    In Colombia – where having an abortion can be stigmatizing, in some cases illegal, and now even more difficult due to the coronavirus pandemic – a clinic has set up a national hotline to help women who are up to 10 weeks pregnant aaccess to safe abortions at home. So far, the clinic has connected with 700 women.

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  • Why some bike shares work and others don't

    January 12, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: China

    A boom in Chinese bike-share companies sought a technology-driven transport solution for people traveling short distances. While investors were drawn to green transportation solutions, a lack of any regulatory framework to introduce the bikes and integrate them with existing public transportation led to millions of bikes inundating urban areas. The more than 40 dockless bike share companies operating around the country led to an oversupply, bikes were vandalized, and many were found in rivers and other natural settings. Massive bike graveyards popped up as the bike parts were not easily recycled.

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  • This Thai village created a tiny fish reserve years ago. Today, it's thriving. Audio icon

    January 12, 2021 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Thailand, Na Doi

    By setting aside an area of the Ngao River to be off limits for fishing, several villages in Thailand have seen a revitalization of large barb and carp in their waters. Compared to non-protected stretches of the river, reserves saw more than twice the total number of fish, and catches outside of that protected area have also significantly increased. “These small, community-based reserves can be a really effective management strategy for sustaining their own resources and conserving fish,” says a researcher at the Global Water Center.

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  • ‘An Epiphany Moment' for Corporate Political Donors May Have Arrived

    January 12, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    IBM is one of only a handful of companies that doesn’t give money to political candidates. IBM does spend millions on lobbying and runs an in-house government relations team, but the company doesn't have a political action committee and restricts money from going to political candidates when it does donate to trade groups. IBM’s founder set the policy to avoid operating as a political organization and to disinvest from a corrupt system where money buys favorable legislation. IBM’s policies could serve as a model as companies pause their political donations due to acts of violence at the Capitol.

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  • Firefighter jobs difficult to find for women fire crew after prison

    January 12, 2021 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Arizona's Inmate Wildfire Program trains incarcerated people to fight wildfires, paying them low prison wages to provide a critically needed service as wildfires grow more common. Members of the only all-female crew, from Perryville Prison, tell of their pride of accomplishment in doing a dangerous job, and of the rehabilitative benefits of the program. They also describe their frustrations when regulations often bar them from using their skills after release from prison.

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  • Could cooperatives be the key to regularization for migrant street vendors in Barcelona?

    January 12, 2021 |

    The Local |

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    Response Location: Spain, Barcelona

    Known locally as manteros, street vendors in Barcelona, Spain, organized and created a union called Diomcoop. The union offers full-time contracts to the vendors, which are difficult to obtain, and which allows them to legally sell on the streets. The contracts are a vital path to enter the conventional labor market.

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  • Human composting now legal, begins in Washington

    January 12, 2021 |

    KOIN-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Wahkiacus, Washington

    Instead of burying or cremating a body after the person has died, some are turning their loved ones into compost. Washington recently became the first state to approve human remains composting, which environmentalists heralded as a greener alternative because it uses less energy. Herland Forest, a natural burial cemetery, is doing one of the first licensed “natural organic reductions” using a “cradle” with wood chips, bacteria, fungi, and oxygen to help speed up the decomposition process. This can take several weeks, but it could become a popular option.

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