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We want to know what’s happening around us and why. What we can’t see for ourselves, we like to be told: Online, in the newspaper, on the radio and on television. It’s a long way from the actual event to the news report. Every day, journalists receive countless stories, reports from correspondents and press releases from parties, associations and companies. The majority of the information, however, is provided by a dense network of global news agencies. They collect, select and sell information to the media. But what is the meaning of news agencies?
Read more: News Agencies: How the NATO-point-of-view dominates international news
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In the USA, there are more than five times as many vacant homes as there are homeless people. The state of Utah has therefore implemented the “Housing First” program and started to provide shelter for all in need, meaning that homeless people in the state receive apartments without any preconditions. Thanks to the Housing First program, the number of chronically homeless people in Utah has been reduced by 91% in ten years. Crucially, the program is cheaper than accepting homelessness.
Read more: Housing First program: How Utah ends homelessness
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Tens of thousands of people are protesting in Chile, South America. The protests were triggered rise the price of underground tickets by president Piñera’s conservative government. Now the masses are taking to the streets against his neoliberal government that impoverished thousands while benefiting a few businessmen and friends of Piñera. The population has had enough of it.
Read more: Chile: Right-wing government deploys military against protesting youth