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Tina Turner, Greek tragedy, and the proven poverty cure that empowers women

Lane Anderson

March 25, 2022 |

Matriarchy Report |

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Response Location: Brazil

Brazil's Bolsa Familia program provides monthly grants to families to help cover the costs of education and health care. The funds, which are specifically disbursed to women, have improved poverty rates and helped empower some women to leave abusive relationships.

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Poverty solutions that actually work

Lane Anderson

June 24, 2015 |

Deseret News |

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Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

Researchers from Yale and MIT conducted a poverty study across various countries and found that aid can relieve poverty if it is comprehensive and gives people a productive asset.

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Can mobile homes save home ownership?

Lane Anderson

April 27, 2015 |

Deseret News |

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Response Location: United States, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Thirty-five percent of Americans will never own their home and risk a rent increase or eviction. Owned Communities USA enables working-class families to become home owners through manufactured homes, loans, and legal aid.

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One city's answer to the high two-year college dropout rate

Lane Anderson

April 09, 2015 |

Deseret News |

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Response Location: United States, Yonkers, New York

Yonkers Partners in Education offers free SAT test prep and college guidance counselors in Yonker's high schools. The program aims to increase college enrollment rates for low-income students who lack the same access to expensive tutors and courses as their afluent peers.

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Trailers as affordable housing: solution or bane to the poor?

Lane Anderson

January 18, 2015 |

Deseret News |

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Response Location: United States, Bath, Pennsylvania

Many people who own a trailer home live in a corporate-owned community where the rent goes unregulated but it is too expensive to relocate the trailer. In New Hampshire many manufactured home communities are owned by resident co-ops.

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What can we learn from a town that beat poverty

Lane Anderson

January 05, 2015 |

Deseret News |

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Response Location: Canada, Dauphin, Manitoba

In a pilot program in a Canadian city, the working poor were given monthly cash supplements to their income. The recipients did not stop working and were able to access opportunities to make a better living long term.

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New programs aim to save lives of American moms in childbirth

Lane Anderson

July 04, 2014 |

Deseret News |

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Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

The United States has the highest mother mortality rates of any developed country. Through a clinic on wheels, Merck for Mothers is giving prenatal check-ups to low-income pregnant women in Philadelphia and curbing deaths related to childbirth.

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Brazil's poverty solution? Give money to women

Lane Anderson

April 14, 2014 |

Deseret News |

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Response Location: Brazil, São Paulo

In Brazil a conditional cash-transfer program is alleviating poverty, empowering women, and changing gender roles by giving families, especially mothers, money for sending kids to school and to regular doctor's visits.

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How India became polio-free

Lane Anderson

January 15, 2014 |

Deseret News |

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Response Location: India, New Delhi, Delhi

India has been able to eradicate polio through large-scale logistics, highly organized vaccine teams, proper funding, and accountability of health officials and front-line workers.

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