Hear Us: Shifting Capital Isn’t Just About the Amount. It’s About Who’s in...
(Photo by Everyday better to do everything you love/iStock Photo) EDITOR’S NOTE: “Hear Us” is a column series that features experts of color and their insights on issues related to the economy and...
View ArticleDenver Nonprofits Get an Interest-Free Boost
SOAR students (Photo courtesy of Chantae Thomas) While the COVID-19 pandemic meant less business for most people, for the staff at SOAR (Seeing Our Adolescents Rise), referrals began coming in fast...
View ArticleDid Bergen County, NJ End Homelessness? It’s Complicated
On January 26, volunteers who work in Bergen County, New Jersey’s homeless services sector will fan out across the county to count the number of homeless people for the county’s annual point in time...
View ArticleHousing in Brief: Unique Program for Philly’s Homeless LGBT Youth Has...
(Photo by Marco Verch Professional Photographer / CC BY 2.0) Philadelphia Program For LGBT Youth Sunsets in 2022 Billy Penn has an update on a program to support homeless LGBT youth in Philadelphia....
View ArticleFare Caps Might Get Transit Out of the Pandemic Slump
(MTA) For years “pay as you go” systems, which give riders the freedom to choose when and how often they travel without being locked into a contract, have been seen by cities as the fairest ticket for...
View ArticleEconomics in Brief: Tallahassee Starbucks Joins Six Other Stores that Have...
Alexis Rizzo, a Starbucks employee, unveils an agreement employees want the company to sign during a press conference after their union-election viewing party Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y....
View ArticleRacial Justice On the Ballot for New York City Voters This Fall
Led by Chair Jennifer Jones Austin, members and staff of the NYC Racial Justice Commission arrive at the Office of the City Clerk to submit the commission’s ballot proposals for voter approval in the...
View ArticleGarment Workers Organize to End Wage Theft
Garment worker Lupe Hernandez addresses the crowd at a rally for fair working conditions, in the 2007 documentary "Made in L.A.". (Photo by Joann Lo) Daisy Gonzalez’s mother emigrated to California...
View ArticleD.C. Green Bank Lining Up Local Dollars, Local Firms to Reap the Solar Boom
Solar arrays at Fairfax Village (Courtesy D.C. Green Bank) Jessica Pitts first started getting to know the residents at Fairfax Villages in 2019. Scattered across 54 acres at the southeastern edge of...
View ArticleAtlanta Reckons with the Convict Labor that Built the City
Incarcerated people work in a rock quarry, possibly Keith Quarry near Palmetto, Georgia, around 1948. (Photograph courtesy of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution via Georgia State University.) The...
View ArticleWill Remote Tech for Court Services Improve Digital Equity?
(Photo by Sarah Hina / CC BY-NC 2.0) As the pandemic swept in during spring 2020, many courts temporarily suspended jury trials and postponed nonemergency hearings, limited access to courthouse...
View ArticleMore Than 30 Black CDFI CEOs Team Up to Shrink the Racial Wealth Gap
The members of African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs (Via African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs) Most see wealth inequality, especially between Black and white Americans, as too long-standing and...
View ArticleHow Norway Popularized an Ultra-Sustainable Heating Method
(Photo by Stephen Downes / CC BY-NC 2.0) When Karen Byskov Lindberg bought a house in Oslo in 2018, she set about a refurbishment that would drastically transform her energy consumption. After...
View ArticleHousing in Brief: Mayors Say They Don’t Have Tools to Deal With Homelessness
(Photo by Laurie Avocado / CC BY 2.0) Report Finds Mayors Without Dedicated Staff Are Relying on Police To Handle Homelessness A survey of 126 mayors in 39 states found that mayors felt reducing...
View ArticleWhy Road Safety Is About More Than Just Crash Data
(Photo by Janne Hellsten / CC BY 2.0) In the U.S., there were 6,721 people killed while walking in 2020. Cities use data on pedestrian deaths and car crashes to help guide policy response, but these...
View ArticleEconomics in Brief: New Basic Income Programs Launch in Minneapolis and New...
(Photo by farmboyted / CC BY-NC 2.0) Basic Income Program Aiding Growing Families in New York City Guaranteed income programs are picking up. Launched in July, New York’s Bridge Project is providing...
View ArticleTaxis Are Making a Cautious Comeback
(Photo by jvargas / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Once upon a time, vehicles painted yellow drove around en masse in cities across the nation, ready to get people where they wanted to go. To get on one, people...
View ArticleMaking Youth Entrepreneurs in San Francisco
Inside Ounce Cookies' manufacturing plant (Image courtesy Ounce Cookies) Globally, San Francisco is best known for its Big Tech businesses, but local nonprofit SFMade sees manufacturing as the...
View ArticleHelping Bronx Students Connect to the Earth and Each Other
(Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash) This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. A new horticulture program is blooming at a Bronx high...
View ArticleInvesting in a More Equitable Post-Pandemic Banking System
New Covenant Dominion Federal Credit Union's main branch (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) In the Morrisania section of the Bronx, New Covenant Dominion Federal Credit Union has seen steady growth in its...
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