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The latest cash-bail reform plan: Give everyone a lawyer

Zaid Jilani

July 10, 2023 |

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Response Location: United States, Allegheny, Pennsylvania

In 2017, a Pennsylvania county court system began to expand its offerings of free legal support, and now in 2023 the county provides defendants with public defenders at all arraignments 9am to midnight. In the first two years of its more-limited services, a study proved defendants with lawyers were more likely to be released without cash bail. Also, chances that a defendant would be in jail three days after their hearing dropped. Research also showed, however, increases in some costs and one type of crime.

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Teachers and Parents as Partners builds teams to help kids

Zaid Jilani

January 26, 2023 |

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Response Location: United States, Crete, Nebraska

Teachers and Parents and Partners, or TAPP, facilitates communication between teachers and parents to help students who may be experiencing mental health struggles by monitoring and discussing behaviors at home and school. TAPP is being tested in big cities and small towns, but there’s an emphasis on rural school districts.

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From breweries to high schools, unique ways to fight poll worker shortage

Zaid Jilani

October 20, 2022 |

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Response Location: United States, Kentucky

Amid poll worker shortages spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and safety concerns for election officials, some states are tapping a new generation of election staffers by recruiting in the places where young people already hang out, including breweries and community colleges. Kentucky's partnership with breweries helped the state sign up roughly 5,000 people to work the polls in 2020.

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No child support, no hunting: Payments up under Utah policy

Zaid Jilani

August 13, 2022 |

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Response Location: United States, Utah

A new Utah law prevents residents who are more than $2,500 behind on child support payments from obtaining a hunting or fishing license, a strategy lawmakers say provides an incentive without legal ramifications that would affect parents' ability to care for their children in the future. Though the law only applies to a small portion of parents who owe child support, the state saw 494 individuals come into compliance after their hunting and fishing licenses were blocked, with payments increasing by nearly $2 million the year after the new law went into effect.

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How honesty may be the best policy for medical errors

Zaid Jilani

June 01, 2022 |

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Response Location: United States

Healthcare providers are using an approach called Communication and Optimal Resolution to acknowledge medical errors and work towards a solution with open communication instead of through court hearings.

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Radicalization Rehab: A group helping people escape hate

Zaid Jilani

May 18, 2022 |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Chicago nonprofit Life After Hate provides mentorship, individualized education, support groups, and job training to help draw people away from violent extremism and hate-based ideology. Founded by former extremists, the group uses a process of disengagement and deradicalization based on compassionate, nonjudgmental discussion with social workers and peer mentors.

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At these US colleges everyone works and there's no tuition

Zaid Jilani

May 06, 2022 |

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Response Location: United States

Work colleges are providing an affordable path to obtaining degrees by requiring all students to work 15 hours a week in exchange for no tuition fees. The funding for the colleges comes from “a mixture of private donations, Pell Grants, and sustaining funding from hefty endowments.”

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