Making Farming Available to New and Diverse People
The farm bill on Trump’s desk funds programs that help make farming more accessible.
A Guarantee of Tuition-Free College Can Have Life-Changing Effects
A mailer sent to low-income students with that promise led to a major jump in enrollment at the University of Michigan, according to a new study.
Report: Racial Bias Continues to Limit Black Homeowners’ Wealth, Upward Economic Mobility
Homes in majority-black neighborhoods are worth $48,000 less on average than similar ones in neighborhoods with no black residents, research from the Brookings Institution and Gallup says.
South Bend’s Mayor on What Local Governments Can Learn From Estonia
The Indiana city’s new mobility-as-a-service pilot is helping low-income shift workers commute for free.
How D.C. Wants to Use Bike-Share Data to Improve Equity
The city already requires operators to share real-time information on vehicle availability.
Piloting Internet Paid for in Cryptocurrency
Proponents say incentivized mesh networks offer cheaper, faster service stood up by local entrepreneurs, civic hackers or homeowners associations.
D.C. Prepares to Launch Transportation as a Service
The city wants to boost for-hire vehicle occupancy rates, while also improving low-income residents’ access to transportation and reducing traffic congestion.
Better Data Management is Key to Denver’s Smart City Aspirations
The situational awareness dashboard at the city’s Traffic Operations Center is the first step in a grander plan.
Second Bloomberg Mayoral Initiative Is Its Most Diverse Yet
St. Paul, Minnesota’s first black mayor shared his biggest takeaways from the program opener.
Verizon Names Indianapolis Its Final 5G Pilot City
Mayor Joe Hogsett welcomed the increased connectivity for residents, but just where it will occur hasn’t been made public.
Pretrial Risk Assessments Come Under Fire From Civil Rights Groups
But not every organization working to end money bail and over-incarceration agrees they’re the wrong approach.
Rising Inequity and Local Solutions
COMMENTARY | With programs to provide free college tuition for middle-class students to training workers for climate change-related jobs, state and local governments are looking to reduce inequality.
Is the Cashless Economy Shutting Out Low-Income Residents?
Two cities are debating whether it’s a form of discrimination.
Cities Form New Racial Equity Network With Private Sector
The commitment has its origins in a 2016 research initiative addressing structural racism in five jurisdictions.
Making Tulsa More Resilient Means Wrestling With the City’s Racist Past
Disparities persist long after the largest race-based massacre in U.S. history.
Ruling Against Colorado, Supreme Court Sidesteps Civil and Religious Rights
Instead, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission provided state and local governments a lecture on fair governance.
City Leaders Envision Future With Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles promise increased equity and efficiency, but a new report says governments need to make sure the right policies are regulating them.
Turning Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Into an Inclusive One
“When you make the case properly, people are willing to pay into the system that reflects them.”
Community-Driven Approaches to Equity to Receive $10M to Grow
The Rockefeller Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative have teamed up to create the Communities Thrive Challenge, which will have 10 winners.
Civil Rights Activists Won’t Let Trump’s ‘Racist’ Rhetoric Derail an Immigration Agreement
The president denied on Twitter Friday that he had called Haiti, El Salvador and African nations “shithole countries,” after attacking a bipartisan deal offering ex-DACA recipients a pathway to citizenship.
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