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The Minneapolis Startup Working to Get More Black People in Tech
Photo by Mars Sector-6 on Unsplash. When 2020 arrived, Michael A. Johnson’s Minneapolis-based event company was taking off. He was in conversation about collaborating with everyone from P. Diddy’s...
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A New Federal Tax Credit Bill Could Help Rebuild Our Declining Financial...
Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union has been designated as a CDFI since 2001. (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) A new bill in Congress proposes a tax credit to subsidize long-term investments in...
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Hear Us: Black and Brown People Are the Narrative Change Experts
(Credit: fizkes/Shutterstock) EDITOR’S NOTE: “Hear Us” is a column series that features experts of color and their insights on issues related to the economy and racial justice. Follow us here and at...
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With Branded Pothole Repairs, Private Companies Make Their Mark on...
Dialdirect Insurance's road repair team works to seal a pothole in Johannesburg. (Photo courtesy Dialdirect Insurance South Africa) South Africa’s commercial capital Johannesburg is home to almost 8...
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Minneapolis Tenants Are Taking On Corporate Landlords by Putting Their Rent...
A tenant renting a HavenBrook Homes-owned house in disrepair speaks at a press conference organized by Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia in Minneapolis. (Photo courtesy Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia in...
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Housing in Brief: NYC Board Votes To Raise Rents On Millions of Regulated...
(Photo by Informed Images / CC BY-NC 2.0) Rents to Rise For Millions of Rent-Regulated NYC Tenants On Tuesday, the nine-member body that determines rent increases for a million New York City...
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Report: Minority-Owned Firms Are Missing Out On Billions in Federal Dollars
(Photo by Sharon McCutcheon.) Systemic bias in the federal contracting process means businesses owned by people of color lost out on $64 billion in federal contract dollars in Fiscal Year 2020,...
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Economics in Brief: Credit Card Companies Don’t Want to Flag Suspicious Gun...
(Photo by Jay Rembert) Credit Card Companies Block Efforts to Track Suspicious Firearm and Ammunition Purchases Credit card companies are seeking to prevent law enforcement from investigating...
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Fight City Gun Violence With Better Street Design
Portland's Mt. Scott Park (Photo courtesy The Philadelphia Citizen) When Nadine Salama moved into a new apartment building across the street from her daughter’s favorite park in the Mt. Scott-Arleta...
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Economics in Brief: The Credit Card Industry Doesn’t Want to Flag Suspicious...
(Photo by Jay Rembert) Credit Card Companies Block Efforts to Track Suspicious Firearm and Ammunition Purchases Credit card companies are seeking to prevent law enforcement from investigating...
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Are Buy Nothing Groups Really Free?
(Photo by Sarah Brown on Unsplash) After moving into a new apartment two years ago, I welcomed myself to the area by joining my neighborhood’s Buy Nothing group on Facebook. BuyNothing is a larger...
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Can Black LGBTQ-Owned Nightlife Spaces Make a Comeback in NYC?
Married couple Richard Solomon and Charles Hughes are the co-owners of Brooklyn's Club Lambda and Harlem's Lambda Lounge. (Photo courtesy of Club Lambda.) There is power in nostalgia. On the night of...
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A New Trail Will Reconnect Philadelphia Families to Their Local Watershed
The Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership hosts an April 2022 park cleanup day. (Credit: TTF Partnership) A new trail in North Philadelphia will give residents a chance to engage with the...
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The Violence Interrupters Need Help
Outreach workers with the Chicago CRED program engage with locals. (Photo courtesy Chicago CRED) Two years ago, Chicago outreach worker Donnell Gardner found himself texting a man holed up in a home...
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D.C.′s Solar for All Program Just Installed Its First Solar Shingles
(Photo courtesy Flywheel Development) Washington, D.C. just finished installing its first solar shingle project through the district’s Solar for All program for low-income residents. The new...
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Can Toronto Finally Win Its War on Noise Pollution?
Yonge Street in Toronto (Photo by Roozbeh Rokni / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Will Summerhill couldn’t sleep. For three-and-a-half years, the same thing happened Monday to Saturday: At 6:30 a.m., the dump trucks...
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Housing in Brief: Philadelphia Has 22,000 Illegal Evictions a Year
The night before an encampment cleanup. (Photo by Rodney Choice/Street Sense Media (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)) HUD Announces $365 million For Unsheltered Homelessness The Biden administration announced a new...
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The Duluth Preschool That’s Taking Education Outside
Children play outdoors at the Secret Forest Play School in Duluth, Minnesota. (Photo by Meghan Morrow) When Meghan Morrow, then a sign language interpreter, would drop her two-year-old son off at...
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Moving Through the City Can Be Dangerous for Indian Women. Can These Apps Help?
A woman awaits the next Delhi Metro train. (Photo by Tushar Arora via Unsplash) When Manish Kelshikar was traveling with women colleagues in India, he noticed that they could rarely find a clean...
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Economics in Brief: The Worker Unionization Wave Continues
(Photo by Trac Vu on Unsplash) Workers Unionizing Around the Country The headlines about worker unionization at major global corporations across tech, retail and service industries just keep coming....
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