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  • This Country Gave People $640 A Month, No Strings Attached. Here's What Happened.

    February 08, 2019 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Finland

    In Finland, preliminary results from the country's first experiments with Universal Basic Income are being released - and while impacts on employment rates are still up in the air, providing a basic income seemed to improve overall well-being and reduce financial stress amongst participants. It is among a group of basic income pilots taking place across the world, including in countries like Kenya and Canada, but detractors of the expensive program say that the results don't prove it's a success quite yet.

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  • What we can learn from Canada's universal child care model

    February 05, 2019 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Canada, Montreal, Quebec

    By reducing daycare costs to nearly nothing, Québec's universal child care program allows more women than ever to join the labor force, rather than stay home and care for their children. The United States now looks to this Canadian province as a working model that sheds light upon the benefits of government-funded child care programs.

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  • Come Get Your Money

    January 29, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania State Treasurer Joe Torsella launched two initiatives to help middle income families save money. The first is an awareness campaign called You Earned it Philly, which aims to encourage the over 50,000 people who qualified for Earned Income Tax Credits benefits but never applied. The other program, called Keystone Scholars, requires Pennsylvania to invest $100 for every child born in the the state, to be used as an adult for post-secondary training or education.

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  • The Art of Humanizing Social Systems

    January 24, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    For social service agencies, prioritizing well-being requires new procedures and a framework for understanding holistic wellness. The Full Frame Initiative has partnered with agencies in the states of Massachusetts and Missouri in an effort to bring categories of well-being into their purview. The Initiative uses five metrics—safety, mastery, social connectedness, and access to resources— to help align social systems, ranging from courts and juvenile corrections to homeless housing services, with social needs so that agencies can better assist their communities.

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  • Louisiana Enters the Era of the Digital Driver's License

    January 15, 2019 |

    Government Technology |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisiana

    Louisiana rolled out its digital driver's license (DDL) app in July 2018, which includes a digital representation of a physical license and a real-time validity check feature called VerifyYou. Since the launch, 77,000 people have downloaded the app.

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  • Incarcerated fathers connect with children thanks to local program

    January 14, 2019 |

    WEWS-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    In Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the Passages program, part of its larger Fatherhood Initiative, aims to help men become more involved parents. The program, instituted in the hopes of reducing recidivism rates and creating stronger male role models in the community, provides participants with job training, emotional support, and the skills they need to be active parents for their families.

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  • Frozen Assets

    January 01, 2019 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, Juneau, Alaska

    In Alaska, the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program, which is meant to provide $1600 to every resident who has lived in Alaska for at least a year, has been proven to reduce poverty and increase quality of life; the program has even been credited for Alaska's status as the state with the second highest income equality in the country. The Fund is meant to disperse wealth from the state's natural resources - but despite it's overall success, decreasing profits from the oil and gas industries has put the Fund in peril as lawmakers cut payments instead of implementing income taxes to generate revenue.

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  • For Those Experiencing Homelessness, ‘The Bin' Honors Their Belongings

    December 21, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In Los Angeles, The Bin gives homeless people a chance to store their valuables. “If I didn’t have this bin, I’d have to get rid of most of my stuff. These bins are really great to have.” Across the nation, other cities are unfolding efforts to help the homeless population.

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  • What cities can learn from West Sacramento's age-friendly journey

    December 14, 2018 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    As part of the city of West Sacramento's process to be more friendly to their aging population, they partnered with the organization AARP to implement their age-friendly framework and received funding to fund their obligatory three-year plan. This funded the facilitation of many surveys of anyone over 45 in the city, which led to the realization that seniors don't want to be defined by their deficits. This reportedly changed the mindsets of public policy makers, paving the way for future programs to be engaging and uplifting for all ages.

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  • Connecting your medical data could be the next big payoff

    September 12, 2018 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Worcester, Massachusetts

    As new Medicare requirements and expenses change, new start-ups are stepping up to move the hospital industry to share data more easily and break down the silos that keep care from being efficient for both patient and provider. The new strategies are helping to coordinate care and services for the highest-risk patients, but there are still concerns that the data sharing is not a long-term solution.

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