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Economics In Brief: ‘The Great Resignation’ Brings Wage Gains
(Image by Mohamed Hassan / Pixabay) Real Wage Gains for Workers Who Switched Jobs A new report from the Pew Research Center of U.S. workers who switched employers between April 2021 to March 2022...
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With Grocery Prices Up, Families Turn To Food Waste Apps
These food waste apps allow users to access surplus food from nearby restaurants or grocery stores at a discount. (Photo courtesy of Flashfood) Darian Setterington, a mother of three in Ontario,...
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Dallas Parents Flock To Schools That Pull Students From Both Rich And Poor...
Wesley Williams works on a project at Solar Prep for Boys, one of the popular “Transformation Schools” offered by the Dallas school district. (Photo by Nitashia Johnson for The Hechinger Report)...
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The Immigrant Women Workers Learning To Disrupt The Cleaning Industry
A total of 50 women graduated from Liberty Cleaners' new educational program in July. (Photo courtesy of the Worker’s Justice Project and Liberty Cleaners) Before Juana Camacho joined Liberty...
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Giving Adults With Disabilities Space For Higher Learning
(Photo courtesy the College of Adaptive Arts) There are over 7 million adults living with developmental or intellectual disabilities in the U.S. Yet many day programs for those with developmental...
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How Teens Are Pushing Back On Book Bans
(Photo by Seven Shooter / Unsplash) In March, the Vandegrift High School Banned Book Club read Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir “In the Dream House.” The book, which deals with intimate partner violence...
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Housing in Brief: New York City Might Ban Landlords From Asking About Arrest...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (Marc A. Hermann / MTA) New York Bill To Ban Criminal Background Checks Has Support New York City’s city council will introduce a bill Thursday that would make it...
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How A Small Canadian City Took On Chronic Homelessness
(Photo courtesy of Medicine Hat Community Housing Society) In 1998, the mayors of many of Canada’s largest cities declared homelessness a natural disaster. As the problem grew, nearly a decade later,...
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More Midwest Banks See Opportunity to Finance Solar, Energy Efficiency Projects
(Photo by U.S. Department of Energy) Smaller, regional banks and credit unions are increasingly looking to help homeowners finance solar installations in a sign of growing recognition of the...
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Extreme Weather Is Only Getting Worse. Can Cities Protect Public Transit?
People stand at a subway entrance as they debate to wade through several inches of water caused flash flooding after remnants of storm Ida brought three inches of rain per hour across the city, in the...
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Economics in Brief: Denver’s Lowest-Earning Workers Will See A Wage Jump
(Photo by josephmccowie / CC BY-NC 2.0) A 2019 City Ordinance Will Give Denver’s Lowest-Paid Workers Significant Pay Increase A rising cost of living, a previous local minimum wage ordinance and — or...
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Zimbabwe’s Urban Poor Turn to “Car Supermarkets” To Survive Inflation
An informal market in downtown Harare. (Photo by Alex Kotowski / The Advocacy Project / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Sheila Gava forages the trunk of a stranger’s Nissan car for dried tuna, Kellogg’s biscuits and...
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A Culinary Apprenticeship Fights Food Insecurity in Rochester
Clayvon Fox shows off the menu item he created in honor of Juneteenth: Clay’s Pot Roast Sandwich. (Photo courtesy of Foodlink) A chipotle chicken sandwich with spinach, tomato and Swiss cheese on...
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How Genwa Korean BBQ Workers Won a Groundbreaking Union Contract
(Photo of Korean BBQ restaurant by The Creativv / Unsplash) In 2017, workers at Los Angeles’ Genwa Korean BBQ began to notice irregularities on their pay stubs when their wages didn’t reflect the...
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What Does Spatial Justice for Unhoused People Look Like?
Los Angeles unhoused activist Theo Henderson. (Photo courtesy We The Unhoused) In just the first few weeks of summer, Los Angeles experienced heat wave after heat wave. Amid the blistering heat,...
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How a Baltimore Resident Showed That Black Neighborhoods Matter
Sonia Eaddy (Photo by Schaun Champion / Baltimore Beat) This story was originally published in Baltimore Beat, a Black-led, Black-controlled nonprofit newspaper and media outlet. For the Eaddys, their...
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Cycling Regulations Hurt Black and Brown People the Most, New Report Finds
(Photo by Fortune Vieyra / Unsplash) For all its benefits, cycling is still an imperfect science for city planners and policymakers. A new report by the National Association of City Transportation...
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It’s Not Just Health. Turns Out Soda Taxes Improve Equity, Too.
(Photo by Caspar Rae / Unsplash) Despite fierce and deeply funded opposition to the tune of more than $30 million dollars from the beverage industry, eight cities from Philadelphia and Boulder to...
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What Will It Take For Other Upstate New York Cities To Adopt Rent Control?
(Photo by Doug Kerr / CC BY-SA 2.0) Last month, the city of Kingston became the first in upstate New York to pass rent control. The precedent is galvanizing tenants, organizers and electeds in other...
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Housing In Brief: Mississippi’s Governor Is Leaving Eviction Prevention Funds...
Mississippi State Capitol (Photo by Tony Webster / CC BY-SA 2.0) Mississippi Governor Will Send Back Unspent Housing Funds Gov. Tate Reeves announced he would be ending the Rental Assistance for...
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