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  • Free school meals helped families during the pandemic. This fall, those lunches won't return.

    August 01, 2022 |

    The 19th |

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    Response Location: United States

    Several studies have shown the link between universal free school meals and higher academic performance, improved nutrition and health, and better behavior. Children who deal with food insecurity often receive “most of their dietary needs at school.”

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  • Group seeks to turn Arizona's primaries into nonpartisan elections

    July 30, 2022 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    States such as Washington and California have nonpartisan "top-two" primaries, in which the top two vote getters move on to the general election regardless of their party affiliation. In Washington, voter turnout in primary elections has jumped from 18 percent in 2003, before the law went into effect, to nearly 55 percent in 2020.

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  • How promise programs can offer more than just college affordability

    July 27, 2022 |

    Prism |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    Promise Programs provide free college educations in the high school graduate’s home state. Along with coaching and other methods of financial support, the initiatives have seen success in increasing graduation rates. The first promise program was implemented in Michigan. Since then, dozens of other states have followed suit.

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  • The Address of the Future

    July 15, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India, Pune

    Unique codes created by Google are providing address to millions of Indians who lack home addresses. Known as Plus Codes, they have enabled homes to be easily found via Google Maps, opening up a number of services previously denied to the unaddressed.

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  • In California Cities, a New Frontier for Public Financing of Elections

    July 13, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    To give less affluent political hopefuls a fighting chance in local races, Seattle's "democracy vouchers" program provides each resident with four $25 vouchers to donate to candidates of their choice. The initiative has nearly doubled the number of candidates running for city positions since 2015, and those using the vouchers are more likely than cash donors to be young and low-income, leading other cities, such as Oakland, Calif., to consider adopting similar programs.

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  • For People Just Leaving Prison, a Novel Kind of Support: Cash

    July 07, 2022 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Returning Citizen Stimulus program provides temporary cash assistance to people recently released from prison, who face steep barriers to finding jobs and stable housing when transitioning out of incarceration. The payments started in 2020 and have helped more than 10,000 former inmates get on their feet, with 42 percent of recipients finding employment within five months of their release.

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  • Choosing Who We Work With

    June 24, 2022 |

    QNotes Carolinas |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    Zaddy Solutions is a staffing firm promoting diversity and inclusion by focus specifically on the LGBTQ community. The firm provides mentorship, education, and guidance.

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  • This State Will Hire You—No College Degree Required

    June 23, 2022 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Maryland

    Maryland has lifted college degree requirements for government positions. The move comes after a labor shortage that has left many positions unfulfilled. The move will open up the roles to qualified applicants who have the experience and knowledge necessary but do not have degrees.

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  • Black farming projects look to recoup historical U.S. land losses

    June 17, 2022 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund is helping Black farmers buy land. More than $200,000 have gone toward urban land purchases in a practice some see as “restorative economics." Black land activists are also purchasing land in rural communities across the United States.

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  • No College? No Problem

    June 17, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    An organization is partnering with companies to connect job seekers, who don’t have college degrees, to corporate positions. The “skills-based hiring” is a step toward closing the racial wealth gap.

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