Problem Solving Must-Read

Employing Undereducated Fathers

Plus: Personal climate control (very personal) and cops teaming up with social workers to help children of violence

Problem Solving Must-Read

Employing Undereducated Fathers

Plus: Personal climate control (very personal) and cops teaming up with social workers to help children of violence

BY Stephen St. Vincent

Mar. 11, 2016

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Here at The Citizen, we do problem-solving journalism, looking for ideas and solutions to move the region forward and make a better city. Here are some other great ideas for solving the world’s problems, from media outlets around the globe:

Blue Collar Blues

Young men from working class families have few lifelines as the dirty jobs their fathers and grandfathers worked slowly evaporate or evolve. But local approaches that connect those lost boys, many now lost men, to pride and purpose, are proving a rebound is possible.

From Chattanooga Times Free Press
Related from The Philadelphia Citizen:
Ideas We Should Steal: Jobs For the Homeless
An Albuquerque program pays panhandlers to clean up city trash—and gets them needed help.

To Save Big on Energy, Heat People, Not Air

Temperature control in the workplace is about to get way more personal.

From CityLab
Related from The Philadelphia Citizen:
Ideas We Should Steal: Green Roofs for Everyone
In Toronto, every new building has to have one.

New Haven police’s approach aids children of violence

Cops and clinicians are teaming up to help children who witness violence in the home

From Corpus Cristi Caller-Times

 

Previous entries in this series:

Problem Solving Must-Read: Real-Life Moisture Farming
Plus: Bicycle superhighways and a basic-income guarantee
Problem Solving Must Read: "Florida Man"
How the namesake of unusual, hilarious, and terrifying antics, points towards effective government
  • Performance based healtcare
Problem Solving Must-Read: Performance-Based Pay for Doctors
Plus: Putting kids to work in schools and using jails as a last resort

 

Photo credit: Doug Strickland/Chattanooga Times Free Press

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