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  • Medicare Model Helps States Control Costs – Within Limits

    November 22, 2021 |

    The American Leader |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    A cost-negotiation approach similar to the one used by the federal Medicare program has saved states like Montana and New Jersey millions of dollars negotiating their state employee health insurance plans. In Montana, the state fired its major insurance carrier and set the rates it would pay health providers for care and procedures, rather than vice versa. In new Jersey, a much bigger state, the program was modified by requiring hospitals and providers to reveal its prices and then grouping hospitals by zip code and asking the state's big insurance carrier for bids geographically on that basis.

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  • Without help, Philly kids who lost family to gun violence will 'self destruct.' So this grandmother gave them a getaway trip.

    November 22, 2021 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The group Moms Bonded By Grief went beyond the support-group work it has done for years for survivors of gun violence homicide victims to take 50 children and their mothers and grandmothers to a Poconos Mountains water park and resort. The long-weekend respite from Philadelphia's relentless gun violence included group therapy for children and adults, enabling them to talk about topics that often get buried or ignored. The excursion, funded by donations, is planned to be repeated next summer.

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  • How Outreach and Deep Canvassing Can Change Rural Politics

    November 22, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Down Home North Carolina is a nonpartisan get-out-the-vote group that practices “deep canvassing” in rural areas to increase voter participation and elect progressive candidates. The technique involves one-on-one conversations that aim to connect on an emotional level, as a way to find common ground, and involves active listening to people and their concerns. Canvassers go door-to-door, and conduct outreach in public areas like Walmart and food banks, (though COVID-19 moved conversations to the phone) and particularly aim to connect with people who haven’t been engaged in the political process before.

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  • Booking Fees: The effort to find long-term solutions for short-term rentals

    November 21, 2021 |

    Gambit |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Cities are contending with a rise in short term rentals which is exacerbating the already limited supply of affordable housing. The effort to rein them in includes fees being redirected to affordable housing funds, stricter regulations, and technology that helps enforce city regulations.

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  • Areas hard hit by B.C. drought now the target of bottled water corporations

    November 21, 2021 |

    The Narwhal |

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    Response Location: Canada, Merville, British Columbia

    The Merville Water Guardians, the Canadian Freshwater Alliance, and K’ómoks First Nation successfully prevented rezoning that would allow water to be drawn from shared aquifers, bottled, and sold for private profits. Protests at District board meetings, letter writing campaigns, petitions, and door-to-door campaigning led the District board to vote against the rezoning and sign an historic agreement to collaboratively manage and conserve water with the K’ómoks First Nation.

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  • Vyama vya pesa mashinani wakati wa Corona

    November 21, 2021 |

    RadioRahma |

    Radio |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    Ili kujiepusha na kubebewa vitu kwa kushindwa kulipa mkopo na riba za juu za benki na mifumo zingine rasmi za mkopo, wanawake wajasiria mali, wamejiunga na vyama vya nyanjani ambazo zinawasaidia kupata pesa za kuendeleza biashara zao wakati wa corona. Kupitia vikundi hivyo vya kuwekeza na kukopesha, wanachama wanatoa pesa kiasi flani kwa mwezi au kwa siku ambazo zinawasaidia kuimarisha biashara zao kupitia pesa za akiba na mikopo zisizokuwa na riba.

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  • These Americans Are Just Going Around in Circles. It Helps the Climate.

    November 20, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Carmel, Indiana

    America's capital of the traffic roundabout is Carmel, Indiana, a city of 102,000 people and 140 roundabouts. The city boasts exceptionally low rates of traffic deaths and injury crashes. Studies of roundabout use elsewhere show benefits as well in pedestrian and bicycle safety, and in cutting environmentally harmful emissions because traditional intersections cause much longer idling times. Not all drivers like them, but Carmel long ago overcame initial qualms when the longtime mayor put into practice the traffic idea he admired when he was a university student in England.

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  • Violences conjugales : faire changer les hommes, mode d'emploi

    November 19, 2021 |

    Alternatives Économiques |

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    Response Location: France

    Accompagnement psychologique et social, éducation... Le suivi des hommes auteurs de violences conjugales s'organise en France et permet de limiter la récidive.

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  • Slow But Steady Progress: Inside Nigeria's Effort To End Open Defecation

    November 19, 2021 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    In 2012, the federal government and the United Nations created the Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion in Nigeria (RUSHPIN). Through this partnership, they were able to engage community leaders, get them to mobilize, and organize community meetings. Six years later hundreds of communities gained an "Open Defecation Free" status, going from 47 million to 38.4 million people who engage in open defecation.

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  • Argentinien: Ein Radiosender von Verrückten

    November 19, 2021 |

    ARTE |

    Documentary |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Argentina

    Die Patienten einer Psychiatrie in Buenos Aires betreiben einen einzigartigen Radiosender. Mit ihren Berichten und Erzählungen aus ihrem Alltag erreichen sie bis zu sieben Millionen Menschen – und tragen so dazu bei, dass psychische Erkrankungen weniger dämonisiert werden.

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