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How Free Internet for Students in ‘Gig City’ Will Outlast the Pandemic
(Photo by riverharbor / CC BY 2.0) Kimberly Rose-Gonzalez, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was having trouble paying her family’s internet bill. This became a problem when her 12-year-old daughter’s...
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This App Pays Young People Without Housing to Build Life Skills
Tailon Penn, a 21-year-old DreamKit Youth Specialist in New Haven, Connecticut, started out as a user of the app, reading articles and watching videos in exchange for gift cards. Now she works with...
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What Massachusetts’ New Right-to-Repair Law Means for Small Auto Repair Shops
Highly computerized cars, like Teslas, contain a wealth of "telematics" data that, until now, has been access-restricted. Massachusetts' new law changes who can access this data, giving independent...
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Six Solutions to Watch for 2021
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We Need To Think Broader About Human-Centered Design
Often, proponents of human-centered design think about making change by streamlining a process or building an easier-to-use form or app. (Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash) Editor’s Note: This is...
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Trying to Improve Remote Learning? A Refugee Camp Offers Some Surprising Lessons
(Photo by Akhenaton Images/Shutterstock.com) Last March when teachers and students transitioned to remote instruction, Iraqi instructor Mohammad Hameed and his students in the Arbat Refugee Camp in...
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Using Tech, California Counties Have Cleared 140,000 Marijuana-Related...
In this Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017 photo, cultivator Carla Selvin rallies outside San Francisco City Hall to tout the benefits of marijuana and urge supervisors to pass pot-friendly regulations in San...
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Vaccine Altruists Find Appointments for Those Who Can’t
Cornelia Stevens, a member of the California National Guard, waits in line for a COVID-19 vaccine on the first day of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine being made available to residents at the Baldwin...
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Citizen Science Is Helping Tackle Stinky Cities
A D-NOSES researcher teaches how to identify odors during a workshop. (Photo courtesy D-NOSES) Marta has lived with a bad smell lingering in her hometown in central Spain, Villanueva del Pardillo, for...
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The Pandemic Modernized School Board Meetings — Will the Changes Last?
A still from the 29-hour virtual board meeting that Miami-Dade County Public Schools trustees held about reopening schools; the meeting included 18 hours of pre-recorded testimony from constituents....
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Food Waste Is Heating up the Planet. Is Dumpster-Diving by App a Solution?
(Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture/CC BY 2.0) Lucie Basch knew that people threw away food that was perfectly good to eat — bananas with a few black dots on the peel, cans of beans just past the...
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Art Teachers Are Teaching Girls to Code
Girls in a pre-pandemic Code/Art session (Photo courtesy Code/Art) Nancy Mastronardi does all kinds of art with her students at Joella C. Good elementary school in Miami. Some weeks it’s drawing and...
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Their App Sends Free Mail to Incarcerated People. Now They’re Helping...
(Photo courtesy Ameelio) All incarcerated residents of Maine have the right to vote — it’s one of two states, alongside Vermont, that allows it — but few actually do so. Low literacy rates and...
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A Medical Moonshot Would Help Fix Inequality in American Health Care
Medical breakthroughs such as the COVID-19 vaccines need to be matched with programs that tackle health inequality. (Credit: Maryland GovPics/CC BY 2.0) COVID-19 has put the American health care...
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Startup Plans Taxi Battery Swapping Service for Electric Vehicles in Major...
(Photo courtesy: Ample) The popularity of electric vehicles has risen in recent years, though not yet fast enough to reap the benefits of a shift away from gas-powered cars. In part, this is due to...
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Whatever Happened To… Minneapolis Protest Art, VA’s Electric School Buses,...
Leesa Kelly and Kenda Zellner-Smith spent months collecting the murals painted on plywood that boarded up Minneapolis businesses during the height of the racial-justice uprisings, determined to honor...
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Connecting Black Women to ‘Aunties’ to Help Them Navigate Life’s Big Questions
Kenney with some of the women in the fitness class she teaches, some of whom became her personal "aunties." (Photo courtesy Nicole Kenney) Nicole Kenney has always been surrounded by aunties. Kenney...
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In Open Letter, City Planning Agencies Acknowledge Their Racist History and...
Los Angeles County Sheriffs forcibly evict Mrs. Aurora Vargas from her home in Chávez Ravine, in Los Angeles, on land that was taken by Los Angeles via eminent domain as part of "slum clearance" to...
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The Latest in Banking Reform for the People
(Photo by vistavision / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) If you’re in favor of the status quo when it comes to banking and basic financial services across the country, it hasn’t been a good few weeks for you. In late...
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Black-Owned Shop Is Bringing Craft Wine and Beer to Southeast Baltimore
(Photo courtesy Off the Rox) Jeryl and Tyrekia Cole of Off the Rox Wine & Beer Shop in the Highlandtown area of Baltimore, Maryland, have been on a community-centered mission to make high-end...
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