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When Hollywood takes on addiction recovery, the script typically conjures up dingy rooms where the down-on-their-luck gather to share their struggles and fears. The prevailing venture-funded model, in contrast, offers little cinematic eye candy. Rather, the focus is mostly on startups where people in treatment message and video chat with care providers and use apps to track prescriptions. Visual appeal aside, there’s plentiful funding to bolster this smartphone-driven vision. Addiction-focused virtual care startups have pulled in hundreds of millions for business models largely based on building offerings scalable enough to meet the massive demand for treatment. Much of the funding…

New Mexico's basic income pilot set out to fill a gap in America's financial safety net: many immigrants aren't able to access help.Pandemic-era relief was largely restricted to US citizens, leaving undocumented households and families with mixed citizenship status without stimulus, rental assistance, or unemployment checks.With growing economic need, community leaders in New Mexico decided to try a different strategy — no-strings-attached cash payments."Mixed-status immigrant families don't always enjoy the same public benefits that other families and workers do because of their status," Marcela Díaz, executive director of economic justice organization Somos Un Pueblo Unido, told Business Insider. "What does…