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Groundbreaking Small Business Loan Program Gets Long-Awaited Expansion
Traveling with kids? Kidmoto got a small business loan to transport families traveling with children safely to airports. (Photo by Jeremiah Lawrence / Unsplash) Kidmoto founder and CEO Nelson Nigel...
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U.S. Cities Scrap “Problem” Fines That Hit Low-Income People Hardest
Photo by Matthew Sparkes/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 During Paul Conley Briley’s time in a San Francisco jail a few years ago, one of the hardest parts was not talking with his family as he sought to spare them...
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Some Twin Cities Transit Agencies Believe Splitting up Helps Provide Better...
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Fort Worth Gets a $3 Million Plan to Support Small Businesses
Downtown Fort Worth (Photo by Paul Sableman / CC BY 2.0) “People are feeling like it’s OK to dream again,” Christina Brooks, chief equity officer for the city of Fort Worth, Texas, told the Fort Worth...
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NYC Is Fighting for More Community Land Trust Funding
(Photo by Roshan Abraham) Clad in bright yellow t-shirts and holding signs that said “our land, our homes, controlled by us,” and “public land for public good,” several dozen members of New York...
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Housing in Brief: Delaware Bans Housing Voucher Discrimination
(Photo by Rasande Tyskar/CC BY-NC 2.0) Delaware Bans Housing Voucher Discrimination for Real This Time Delaware’s state senate passed a bill requiring landlords to accept housing vouchers, according...
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These Cafeterias Offer Farm to School Fare
(Photo by sk / CC BY-ND 2.0) When Breon Clemons’ daughter was about to start grade school three years ago, he started thinking about what she was going to eat while at school. “At that time she had...
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Economics in Brief: DeSantis Revokes Disney’s Tax District Status
Photo by Patrícia Ferreira on Unsplash DeSantis Strikes Against Disney, Revokes Their Special Tax District Status Florida’s state legislature has moved rapidly to cancel Walt Disney World’s special...
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Does the ‘Future of Work’ Open a New Growth Horizon for Small Towns?
The county courthouse in Mexico, Missouri, and the surrounding square where locals are planning a co-working space for small businesses and remote workers (Photo by Erik Richardson) The economic...
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The Future of Work Is Green
Jayden Brown (front) shows current HVAC student Eric Oakley how to hang a bracket on the outside wall to hold the heating system’s condenser. (Photo courtesy of Ulster BOCES) In 2019, TIME magazine...
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Men Going Home: From Life in Prison to Small Business Owner
(Photo of a Florida jail by Lonny Paul / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) In April 2020, William Steele, a 62-year-old prisoner serving a life sentence, walked out of the Everglades Correctional Institution (ECI) as...
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A New Tool is Raising Awareness for the Benefits Cliff
(Photo by ericfoltz/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) At surface level, a boss offering their employee a raise is something to celebrate: a higher paycheck as a reward for their performance. So is taking part in a...
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East Bay Activists Unveil New Blueprint for a Regional Public Bank
The East Bay plan is modeled after the public Bank of North Dakota (Photo courtesy of the Bank of North Dakota) Twice a year, when property owners pay their local property tax bills, Alameda County...
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How Chicago Is Helping Residents Coexist With Urban Wildlife
(Photo by Jamez Picard/Unsplash) From raccoons rummaging through garbage bins to coyotes roaming the streets and opossums snacking on garden vegetables to feed their young, urban wildlife can be,...
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A Cup of Coffee That Gives Back
Mike Mwenedata shares a cup of coffee with coffee growers and workers in Rwanda. (Alain Yves Photography) When Mike Mwenedata migrated from Rwanda to the United States in his 20s to look for a better...
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Denver Tries to Build Better Housing for Formerly Incarcerated People
April Cotton addresses the Denver City Counci in 2019 (Photo by Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite) When April Cotton arrived at her halfway house in December 2018, she hoped for support. She had just spent 10...
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Housing in Brief: Cities Push Back Against California’s Rezoning Laws
(Photo by Katie Baumez on Unsplash) California’s Laws to Spur New Housing Face Pushback From Cities In 2021, California passed SB-9, a suite of revisions to its land use code intended to ease...
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How a DC Nonprofit Served Up 6 Million Emergency Meals During COVID-19
DC Central Kitchen's mobile meals truck (Photo courtesy of DC Central Kitchen) While employment has overall stabilized to pre-pandemic levels countrywide, the hospitality industry had an abysmal two...
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Economics in Brief: Delta Announces Plans to Pay Attendants During Boarding
(Photo by Suhyeon Choi on Unsplash) All Aboard? Delta Announces It Will Pay Attendants During Boarding Amid Unionization Pressure Did you know that flight attendants start getting paid only after...
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What the Merger of Sacramento Transit Agencies Means for Riders
A Meadowview-Watt/I-80 train arrives at the St. Rose of Lima Park station (Photo by paulkimo9/CC BY 2.0) EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a short series of three articles about city public transit...
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