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  • How is Sweden tackling its integration challenge?

    May 02, 2017 |

    The Local |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Sweden

    Sweden has, and continues, to receive a lot of asylum seekers, leading to the need for successful integration of these new immigrants. Certain programs have been developed, such as one that when completed asylum seekers will be able to gain employment faster, or others that help young immigrants understand their new culture.

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  • Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait proposes jobs for homeless in State of the City

    February 08, 2017 |

    Orange County Register |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Anaheim

    In Anaheim, a newly announced push for homeless services and initiatives that gives people who are homeless the opportunity to work a day job with the City. The idea is modeled off Albuquerque's successful approach, which includes a van that picks up people interested in working for a day for a wage and lunch, and provides a night's stay at an emergency shelter.

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  • Memphis Looks to Medical Manufacturing to Cut Poverty

    December 02, 2016 |

    Next City |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    A just-announced $6 million federal grant will help end poverty in Memphis, Tennessee.

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  • Welfare and the Underappreciated Value of Long-Term Thinking

    October 01, 2016 |

    Governing |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    Different states have demanded welfare recipients to work and report their logged hours to a welfare counselor, but this practice can make welfare recipients feel more like a statistic than real people. Ramsey County, Minnesota, has addressed a new way of offering job assistance—by developing skills for job retention, further education, and work planning with the counselors.

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  • How Dress for Success Has Outfitted Women for Two Decades

    September 27, 2016 |

    Racked |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Business clothes are expensive, and this can often be a barrier to low-income professionals. Dress for Success in New York City is a non-profit that collects second-hand business clothing and has high-end stylists on hand to help with fashion choices for clients. The clothes not only help low-income clients get better jobs, but also help improve self-esteem and confidence.

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  • The Other Housing Crisis: Finding a Home in Rural America

    September 22, 2016 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    The national affordable housing crisis is creating challenges for rural areas. Low-income residents in rural towns struggle to find quality, affordable housing, and government subsidies for housing have decreased in recent years. However, two examples show potential. In Elkins, West Virginia, the Randolph Housing Authority helps people buy affordable homes that are funded by the USDA rural development division and built by a youth training program. In Woodland, California, agricultural workers are moving to Spring Lake, a growing community whose energy usage is net-zero.

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  • Meet the Ex-Inmate Whose Successful Prison Rehab Program Goes Beyond Drug Treatment

    August 04, 2016 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Led by peers and providing everything from group therapy to tips on how to build credit, the Timelist program works with the recently paroled as well as the presently incarcerated to reduce recidivism. Seven years after it started, Timelist’s comprehensive approach has a perfect record of it’s graduates staying out of prison.

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  • How Denmark is trying to subvert the call to terror

    July 31, 2016 |

    Minneapolis Star Tribune |

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    Response Location: Denmark, Aarhus

    Many Denmark youth are traveling to Syria to join Islamic extremist groups. Denmark has reduced recruitments by pouring money into government programs dedicated to better integrate immigrant communities through employment and counseling.

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  • Taking The Personal Approach To Lifting People Out Of Poverty

    June 29, 2016 |

    American University Radio (WAMU) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Fort Worth, Texas

    One of the challenges is that social workers who help poor people typically have large caseloads of clients and lots of paperwork, often leading to burnout. The Padua Project is trying to change that with what they call “supercharged” case workers with manageable caseloads and the freedom to come up with creative solutions to problems.

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  • Voices of fighting joblessness and youth violence: Pathways to Peace

    June 09, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Some local programs see youth employment as more than just a workforce development issue. They also view jobs as a way to offer stability to young people, especially those from Cleveland area communities with high violence rates. The research bears them out. These are the voices of some of the voices speaking in favor of more jobs and less violence.

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