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Bringing Pocket Parks to ‘Kid Success Neighborhoods’ in Detroit
Kids got to share ideas for what they wanted to see in 12 planned "pocket parks" around Detroit. (Photo courtesy Brilliant Detroit) Windee Brown remembers growing up in Detroit. “It wasn’t easy,” she...
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A Global Reading App Is Ending ‘Book Deserts’ In the U.S.
(Photo courtesy Worldreader) While book deserts in communities that are underserved and need reading support have always been an issue in the United States, the pandemic exacerbated this with the...
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Many People With Disabilities Are Paid Pennies; Build Back Better Could...
(Photo by Nathaniel_U / CC BY 2.0) Originally published by The 19th. For almost a century, it has been completely legal for companies to pay workers with disabilities mere cents on the hour. Employees...
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It’s a Good Week to Start Thinking About Racism, the Economy and the Fed
The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Photo by Craig Hatfield / CC BY 2.0) Claudia Sahm first came to work at the Fed just as the world started crumbling — back in 2007, at the beginning of the...
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Detroit’s Only Black-Owned Grocery Store Is Reimagining Food Access
Raphael Wright (Photo by Serena Maria Daniels) There comes a time in just about every entrepreneur’s life when they have to reconcile with the vision they set for themselves and reality. When Raphael...
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When a City’s Data-Driven Decisions Go Bad
(Photo by Leon on Unsplash) Every city government says they want to be data-driven. But not that many cities do it right. My experience as a practitioner on a civic innovation team has led me to...
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Colorado Springs Is Building an Open-Access Internet
(Photo: fizkes/iStockPhoto) When COVID-19 ceased in-person schooling, there were about 2,500 families within Colorado Springs School District 11 without a broadband internet connection at home,...
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Boston Pilot Project Finds Free Transit Increases Ridership
(Photo by Brian Talbot / CC BY-NC 2.0) Welcome to “The Mobile City,” our weekly roundup of noteworthy transportation developments. Boston Pilot Project Finds Ridership Jumps When Workers Get Subsidies...
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Why Activists Are Pushing NYC to End Its Tax Lien Sale
Activists say that New York City's tax lien sale leads to foreclosures in Black and brown neighborhoods. (Photo by Jeff Turner / CC BY 2.0) Marcus is a disabled, 66 year-old Vietnam war veteran. He...
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Housing in Brief: Kansas City Wins Tenant Right To Counsel
(Photo via KC Tenants) Kansas City Tenants Will Have Free Legal Counsel For Eviction Court Last Thursday, the Kansas City, Missouri city council approved a Tenants Right to Counsel ordinance that will...
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All Aboard the Company Bus
Photo of a Route 495 bus at Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake, Minn. Both Mystic Lake and Amazon partially subsidize Minnesota Valley Transit Authority's running of Route 495 service. (Photo by Henry...
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Economics in Brief: Six Starbucks Stores Seek Union Election Following...
Starbucks employees and supporters react as votes are read during a viewing of their union election on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. Starbucks workers have voted to unionize over the...
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Jackson Project Tells the Story of Food Access Through Art
Adrienne Dominick and "Mama Rose Kitchen" (Photo courtesy Adrienne Dominick) When Jackson, Miss. artist Adrienne Dominick was growing up, she loved to help her grandmother in the kitchen. “If I had to...
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New Data Shows Energy Burdens Across 50 Major Cities
(Photo by Alex / CC BY-ND 2.0) Over 15 million households across the U.S. are severely energy burdened – meaning that they spend more than 10% of their yearly income on energy bills. The problem is...
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Libraries Will Lead the Equitable Recovery
The drop-in homework program has helped 500 children over 20 library locations. (NYPL / Jonathan Blanc) In mid-January, New York’s Queens Public Library plans to reopen the Queens Library for Teens,...
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Worker-First Restaurant Model Steals Ideas From Private Equity (And That’s Okay)
(Photo courtesy Griffin Coffee) Many stories seem to get their start at the little Denver coffee shop where Reese Crawford started working as a barista in 2017. He notices a lot of first dates, as...
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Why Getting Vaccinated at Church Might Be the Future
The Masjid Al-Mustafa mosque is one of Harris County's 10 community partners. (Photo courtesy Harris County) With one of the most diverse populations in the country, the COVID-19 vaccination rollout...
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USDOT Nudges States To Prioritize Fix-It-First Infrastructure Spending
(Credit: Oregon Department of Transportation/CC BY 2.0) Welcome to “The Mobile City,” our weekly roundup of noteworthy transportation developments. Feds Encourage States to Spend Infrastructure Money...
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A New Kind of Safe Haven: ‘I See a Person Who Just Wants to Be Understood and...
Patrice Rogers, founder of Stop The Risk, an organization that focuses on street outreach and provides an outdoor safe haven for at-risk individuals in Kensington, poses for a portrait inside of her...
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Women and People of Color Benefiting Most From Home Business Boom
(Sabrinavfholder/nappy.co) Originally published by The 19th In August 2020, on a quiet residential street in the Phinney Ridge neighborhood of Seattle, a tiny emerald bar suddenly appeared inside a...
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