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8 Main Street job creators rebooting the economyFrom the Deep South to the West Coast, these entrepreneurs are making sure jobs and dollars grow 鈥� and stay 鈥� in places hardest hit by hurricanes, poverty, and gentrification.
Rickshaw drivers take a 'respect women' message to New Delhi streetsSome 40,000 auto-rickshaw drivers in Delhi have attended classes on respecting women and are spreading the word across the city, known as India's' rape capital.'
Community radio teaches homebound students in LiberiaUsing radio the Advancing Youth Project provides reading and math instruction, and job training, to students stuck at home during the Ebola outbreak.
Points of ProgressGender gap has narrowed in more than 100 countriesIn recent years, many nations have reduced wage gaps, increased female college enrollment, and expanded the role of women in government. But there's still work to be done 鈥� a recent report estimates that complete gender equality in economic participation and opportunity remains decades away.
Ghana's success in fight against hunger holds lessons for othersIt started with a simple move to change the tax code so that farmers could keep more of the value of their cocoa crop.
Easing barriers helps us allMaking the world more accessible for the disabled has brought them into the mainstream -- and improved everyone's lives.
Readers RespondReaders Right: Making renewable energy cheapr; looking for a solution in IsraelLetters to the Editor for Nov. 17, 2014 weekly magazine:Barnshaw: Increasing the amount of renewable energy will push down the price.Aeschbach:聽We must work toward creating a secular Israel where all religious and nonreligious people have equal rights.
Jessica O. Matthews has a ball generating energyHer company, Uncharted Play, produces the SOCCKET, a power-generating soccer ball that literally turns kids' play into usable electricity.
Difference MakerAndrew White, 鈥榯he Vicar of Baghdad,鈥� aids Iraqis of all faithsThe Baghdad church run by the Anglican priest provides food, education, and medical services to nearly 5,000 Iraqis in need.
Simple steps could cut world's food wasteEnough food to feed the world's 800 million hungry is wasted every year. A new interactive platform will try to reduce the losses.
Chris Marvin sees US veterans as assets, not victimsThe group Got Your 6 wants to refocus the story of post 9/11 US military veterans. Instead of being damaged and fragile, most of today's generation of vets are committed to lives of serving others.
Points of ProgressFish in American waters are experiencing population reboundsNearly two dozen species of Pacific groundfish, including snapper, Dover sole, and dogfish, and Atlantic haddock, among others, are all making a comeback. The rebounds can be attributed to the passing of the聽Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and the US management system.
Readers RespondReaders Write: Getting an education in the 'real world,' climate change needs solutionsLetters to the Editor for Nov. 3, 2014 weekly magazine:Martin:聽It takes years of students testing themselves in the very competitive 鈥渞eal world鈥� before the lure of progressivism is forged into pragmatism.Cutler:聽The need for action is urgent. We have only a few years to get effective controls over greenhouse-gas emissions.
What we owe our veterans, and ourselvesNo matter what they face on the battlefield, warriors often find that their toughest fight comes afterwards.聽
Marine veteran Tina Thomas: her mission continuesTina Thomas spent her childhood moving between 13 foster homes and five group homes. But when she began mentoring other abused girls, her life gained a focus and purpose.
A chocolate factory with a higher purposeShawn Askinosie works directly with developing-world growers to sweeten their lives, too.
Difference MakerKrithi Karanth's quest: help people and wildlife to coexist in IndiaKrithi Karanth has witnessed threats, poachers, and forest fires as she tries to learn how people and wildlife can live in harmony in a crowded India.
Hector Manley: paddling for a purposeA young double amputee paddles down the 2,500 miles of the Mississippi River to bring wheelchairs to his native El Salvador.
One woman's battle to help Kenyan girls who trade sex for foodBrittanie Richardson is one of a growing number of activists running grass-roots campaigns to stop children in the slums from entering the sex trade.
Two US veterans walked thousands of miles to heal 鈥� and raise moneyTwo Iraq veterans trekked across America to leave behind the trauma of war and raise funds to help fellow vets. Now they want to offer the same healing experience to others.
