Is Finland the best place in the world to be a parent – Alexandra Topping travels to Helsinki to find out why the UK pre-school system lags so far behind ~life family parenting Video 11:52 4 votes
US researchers employed by federal Housing and Urban Development agency propose study re comparative effectiveness of cash grants vs current system of vouchers for housing assistance ~life housing.affordable Article 1623 words 15 votes
Opinion: The Kids Online Safety Act would harm LGBTQ+ youth, restrict access to information and community ~lgbt Article 541 words, published Jul 27 2023 38 votes
Danish government has apologized to thousands of people with disabilities who were abused in state-run facilities ~health Article 504 words 7 votes
Swedish schools minister Lotta Edholm moves students off digital devices and on to books and handwriting, with teachers and experts debating the pros and cons ~life education Article 934 words 20 votes
Senator admits "Kids Online Safety Act" will target trans content online ~lgbt transgender Article 597 words 28 votes
Schoolkids in eight US states can now eat free school meals, advocates urge Congress for nationwide policy ~food Article 1035 words 85 votes
Sweden seeks to stem deadly rise in youth crime – illegal guns are relatively accessible, with younger and younger children being drawn into serious crime ~life Article 1214 words 14 votes
The new (improved?) face of public housing in Maryland ~life housing.public housing.affordable Article 4068 words 10 votes
Growing segregation by sex in Israel raises fears for women’s rights ~life.women Article 850 words 71 votes
Norway's ongoing journey to optimize breastfeeding support – rates of breastfeeding in the WHO European Region are the lowest in the world ~health Article 1075 words 10 votes
What the data says about food stamps in the US ~finance Article 2211 words, published Jul 19 2023 10 votes
Cleveland: New city policy would eliminate mandatory parking near transit corridors ~design urban planning Article 302 words 12 votes
South Koreans become younger overnight after country scraps ‘Korean age’ ~life Article published Jun 28 2023 44 votes
Canada to launch 'digital nomad strategy,' other measures to woo international talent ~life work.remote Article 555 words 18 votes
Finland wants to reverse downward trends in PISA school aptitude tests, and promote a focused learning environment, with new laws around mobile phone use ~life education Article 345 words 11 votes
Finland games industry disappointed by new immigration reforms – 30% of the industry is made up of gaming professionals that have immigrated to the country ~games Article 213 words 10 votes
Euronews travelled to Sweden's second-largest city, Gothenburg, to learn more about another type of economy, one that puts people first: the social economy ~life work Article 894 words 11 votes
Watered-down LGBTQ ‘understanding’ bill shows how far Japan’s parliament is out of step with its society – and history ~lgbt history Article 1180 words 20 votes
Finland's far-right Perussuomalaiset party has agreed to enter a coalition government with the centre-right Kokoomus and two other groups ~news finland politics Article 33 words 12 votes
Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976 – between 20,000 and 33,000 Swedes were forced to be sterilised ~humanities.history Article 1004 words 12 votes
Brazil sends thousands of Venezuelan migrants to country's rich southern states ~news venezuela politics Article 1282 words, published May 16 2023 7 votes
Taiwan grants right of adoption to same-sex couples in latest move toward full equality ~lgbt Article 423 words 19 votes
Trendy neighbourhood in Copenhagen bracing for major protests over anti-ghetto law – critics say it's racist and pushing out remaining social housing ~life housing.social Article 641 words 5 votes
Swedish retirees demand fairer pensions for women – The Old Lady Patrol's protest against the country's pension system enters its tenth year ~life.women Article 758 words 5 votes
Once praised for its generous social safety net, Denmark now collects troves of data on welfare claimants ~tech Article 2339 words, published Mar 7 2023 10 votes
Legal expert Anna Singer is investigating whether Swedish authorities were aware of falsified child origins as they approved the adoptions of thousands of South Korean children ~life family Article 619 words 4 votes
Finland has passed a new, progressive rights law which makes it substantially easier for trans people to change their legal gender ~lgbt transgender Article 466 words 9 votes
Norway's golden generation of athletes proves the value of sport as a public good – commitment to making the “joy of sport” available to all is producing world-class talent ~sports Article 957 words 3 votes
France strikes: One million protest against Macron's rise in retirement age ~life work Article 946 words 10 votes
US President Joe Biden signs marriage equality bill into law ~news usa law Article 159 words 16 votes
Thousands of women in Greenland, including some as young as twelve, had a contraceptive device implanted in their womb, often without consent ~health healthcare Article 1851 words 16 votes
How Finland put traffic crashes on ice – only 219 people died on Finnish roads in 2021, or four per 100,000 residents ~transport Article 7 votes
Denmark and Greenland have formally agreed to launch a two-year investigation into historic birth control practices carried out for many years on Inuit Greenlanders ~health healthcare Article 1169 words 5 votes