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De aanpak van laaggeletterdheid
In the Netherlands, 2.5 million people have difficulty with reading, writing and/or arithmetic, which prevents them from fully participating in society. In Heerlen, South Limburg, where a relatively l...
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Student zoekt kamer
Homes with vermin and mold, sleeping in a tent on a campsite or spending hours on the train to attend a lecture. Students accept a lot because there is a major shortage of student housing. Dutch unive...
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Honger in de klas
Last fall, a shock went through the Netherlands when it turned out that children in our rich country were going to school without food. There was great outrage, volunteers started making sandwiches an...
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De geestelijke gezondheidszorg moet op de schop
Anyone waiting for help with psychological suffering must have a lot of patience. There are currently 85,000 people on a mental health waiting list. In the meantime, the need for psychological help is...
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Pointer Special: Listig maar legaal
There are countless jubilant stories about the Healy on Facebook and YouTube. A small device that you can clip to your sweater or shirt and is said to promote your health through frequency therapy. Yo...
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Heeft het broodtrommeltje zijn langste tijd gehad?
Millions are released for emergency aid because children are hungry in class. This is a temporary solution to a problem that has been going on for years. Hunger and bad food hinder equal opportunities...
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Worden de onveilige huizen in Groningen nu wél versterkt?
Last year, the parliamentary committee of inquiry investigated how the people of Groningen could have ended up in earthquake misery. One thing is clear: the safety of Groningen residents has been igno...
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Vervoersarmoede: minder bussen, minder kansen
Bus transport is under pressure, especially in rural areas. Almost empty buses are not profitable for the carrier, but the quality of life does depend on it. Because what if, as a student, you can no...
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Waarom slapen we zo slecht?
In the Netherlands, 1.3 million people sometimes or regularly work at night. Wonderfully quiet, some say. But that will cost you your night's sleep. Because those who work at night are more likely to...
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Extra: Jaagt de provincie ons de auto in?
To achieve the climate goals, diesel buses in regional transport are being replaced by green buses. At the same time, large parts of the Netherlands are becoming increasingly less accessible by public...
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Wie stopt de bouwstop?
The housing shortage is great and house prices are still high. And yet we are not building new houses at a high pace. The opposite happens: investors put their new construction plans on hold because i...
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Jaren te veel huur betalen door fout energielabel
We are in the city of Groningen, where some tenants have been paying too much for years because the energy label on their home is incorrect. Who is responsible for the incorrect energy labels on hundr...
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Jeugdcriminaliteit verhardt en verjongt. Valt het tij nog te keren?
Young people are ending up behind bars at an increasingly young age and the crimes for which they are imprisoned are becoming more serious. A criminal career sometimes moves very quickly, from distrib...
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Jonge kinderen zitten in de stress over toetsen. Waar komt die druk vandaan?
The final test is coming again for group 8. That means pale faces, short fuses and stomach aches, teachers say. But it's not just the final test that causes stress. Teachers also see stressed children...
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Kunnen we vrouwenmoord voorkomen?
The 'red flags' for intimate partner murder have been known for decades. For example, you are seven times more likely to die if your partner has strangled you before. Yet the Netherlands is often unab...
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De vogelgriep: wíe ruimt de dode wilde vogels op?
Animal ambulances fear a bird flu pandemic. They already clean up dozens of infected dead wild birds every day, often at their own expense. But what if the virus continues to spread? Nearly six millio...
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Wonen op een vakantiepark
Maaike lives with her family - against the rules of the municipality - at a holiday park. The municipality has started to enforce strict regulations in recent years and therefore sealed their house la...
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Gehandicaptenzorg: waar moeten mensen met ernstige handicaps wonen?
While 24-hour care becomes increasingly demanding, many parents choose to keep their child with severe multiple disabilities at home. Parents find the care in regular institutions substandard and ofte...
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Waar gaan we bouwen?
We need houses and developers like to build them in meadows. There is a beautiful polder ready for you near Alphen aan de Rijn. But is this Gnephoek the best place for 10,000 new houses, in a deep pol...
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Extra: De Vergeten Graven
After the Second World War, many synagogues and Jewish cemeteries were lost. Since 2020, Pointer has been conducting research into expropriated and resold Jewish real estate during the war and came ac...
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File op het stroomnet
We are working hard on sustainability in the Netherlands. That is why we use more and more electricity and generate more electricity. But our current electricity grid cannot handle that. In many place...
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Zorgen om dementiezorgwoningen
The number of people requiring intensive care due to dementia will increase in the coming years, but no additional places may be added in nursing homes. Housing associations and healthcare institution...
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Jonge gedetineerden gaan vaak opnieuw de fout in
The main purpose of a prison sentence for minors is resocialization. When young people are outside again, they must have received sufficient support not to make the same mistake again. Yet the recidiv...
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Hoe zorgen we ervoor dat jonge ex-gedetineerden niet opnieuw de fout ingaan?
The main purpose of a prison sentence for minors is resocialization. When young people are outside again, they must have received sufficient support not to make the same mistake again. Yet the recidiv...
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Geld of klimaat? Dit dorp worstelt met die vraag
Who says Schoonebeek, says oil extraction. However, the Drenthe village no longer appears to be as unanimous about this industry as it used to be. There are plans to inject wastewater from extraction...
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Met welke omstreden projecten compenseren gemeenten hun aardgasverbruik?
Greenhouse gas emissions must be drastically reduced if we are to achieve the climate goals. But what if it is much easier and cheaper not to reduce your emissions but to offset them? Pointer delves i...
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Slachtoffers uitbuiting en seksueel geweld in de kou
Women who are victims of domestic violence, sexual exploitation or sexual violence are hardly seen by the police and social services, such as Veilig Thuis. De Balie Live Journalism investigated where...
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Helpt onze toetscultuur het leesplezier om zeep?
Dutch children do not like to read. In terms of reading pleasure, our ten-year-olds are somewhere at the bottom of the international rankings and their reading skills are now below the Western average...
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Extra: Boeren met tovervloeren
Thousands of farmers have invested in expensive sustainable stable floors in recent years and have thus been able to increase their livestock. The 'magic floors' are said to significantly reduce nitro...
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Wie controleert de natuurcontrole?
Citizens are shocked when the municipality of Westerveld creates a cycle path through the middle of a nature reserve. This construction is allowed because a natural test states that there will be no d...
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Wat gebeurt er achter de coulissen van de klassieke muziek?
For many people, classical music has the image of decent, neat and perhaps a bit boring. Masterpieces are played by the best orchestras in centuries-old concert halls. From an early age, musicians put...
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Bewoners ongerust over uitdijende vakantieparken
We like to go on holiday in our own country or a weekend away to the forest, the heath or the sea. Holiday homes are extremely popular. Holiday parks are continuing to expand in Zeeland, but a group o...
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Wie draait erop voor de schade na dijkwerkzaamheden?
By 2050, 1,500 kilometers of dikes must be reinforced in the Netherlands. Our country is vulnerable now that sea levels are rising and the risk of extreme weather is increasing. But what if things go...
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Extra: De autonome droom
Autonomous or sovereign citizens believe that Dutch laws and regulations do not apply to them and that the government should not exercise power over them. This means that they pay less or even no tax,...
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Verslaafd op doktersrecept
Over the past twenty years, the number of users of opioids, heavy painkillers, has increased enormously in the Netherlands. Warned by the opioid epidemic in the United States, a task force was establi...
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Mantelzorg: wie betaalt de rekening?
Combining informal care and work: it is a tough and sometimes almost impossible combination. Many informal caregivers therefore work less or report sick, research shows. The calculations are that 18 p...
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Talent gemist op school
We have a major shortage of professionals, especially in construction and healthcare. Yet children are not encouraged to learn a practical trade. It is rather the other way around: schools and parents...
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Hoe veilig is het op het conservatorium?
For many people, classical music has the image of being reasonable, neat and perhaps even a bit boring. Pieces are sometimes hundreds of years old and great efforts are made to preserve their beauty....
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Pointer factcheckt de verkiezingen
The campaign for the House of Representatives elections is in full swing and the battle for the voters' favor is flying back and forth. There are a lot of one-liners in election programmes, debates an...
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Kinderen op e-bikes: superleuk of slecht idee?
The e-bike is hip. It has become an indispensable part of the cycle path and, especially since the arrival of the fat bike, more and more young children are cycling on it. Is that wise? Can children's...
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Schulden vroeger in beeld
One in five Dutch households faces financial problems. To reduce that number and prevent people from getting into trouble due to electronic debts, municipalities have had to contact their residents si...
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Arbeidsmigrant als wegwerpproduct?
Migrant workers die due to illness and lose work and often find themselves in a pinch. They do not know their way around the Dutch healthcare system and are hardly helped by employment agencies. For e...
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Wordt de dierenarts onbetaalbaar?
The vet is becoming increasingly expensive. Commercialism has taken over the care of animals and that is bad news for pet owners. Thousands of euros for an operation for a dog or cat. It is always mor...
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Stille dreiging: Russische spionage voor onze kust
Russian spy ships secretly visit our coast. For days they lie quietly in our part of the North Sea above important data cables, gas pipelines and near wind farms. Is Russia preparing to sabotage our i...
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Piepende oren
The Health Council recommended a year ago that the volume knob should be lowered. Yet that doesn't happen. Is there enough attention to the adverse effects of (too) loud noise on our ears? Doctors hav...
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Vallen vrouwen onnodig uit door de overgang?
Hot flashes, muscle pain, mental problems... More attention is finally being paid to menopausal complaints. Famous Dutch people make podcasts and books about it, and it is even discussed on TV and soc...