Equity
FEMA rolls out climate adaptation loans for small and overlooked communities
The federal disaster relief agency has taken heat for steering past resilience funds to whiter, wealthier areas.
A simple way to make electric cars more accessible: Share them
Car shares not only make electric vehicles more equitable, they reduce the number of vehicles on the road and the resources needed to decarbonize transport.
Efforts grow to undercut prosecutors’ authority
COMMENTARY | Some Republican lawmakers in Georgia are looking to remove District Attorney Fani Willis, a Black Democrat representing a majority Black district, from office. The effort in Georgia is not happening in a silo.
Some states protect Section 8 renters, but enforcement is elusive
The protective laws can take years to have an effect for voucher holders.
Why it’s more expensive for Black towns to borrow money
"This is how your sewage gets funded, this is how your water gets funded, this is how public schools and public services are funded," one expert says.
Analysis: A new approach to defining persistent poverty
COMMENTARY | Switching from using counties to census tracts in order to define persistent poverty may hurt rural communities and their chances when competing for federal dollars.
50 years later, group asks: What if other urban highways had been built?
Highways once slated for Atlanta and Washington, D.C., would have sliced through areas that are now some of the cities’ most vibrant neighborhoods.
States have broadband money. Now they just have to figure out how to spend it.
States have less than six months to submit their plans to the federal government on how they will spend their allotment of the $42.5 billion to build out the nation’s broadband.
Will the new wave of place-based policy leave persistently poor areas behind?
COMMENTARY | As the country’s ultimate left-behind places, these communities persist indefinitely in the shadow of growth and prosperity. A more accurate measurement would change that and lead to better policies.
When it comes to employment decisions, it's not just AI that may have biases
New York City’s new law meant to reduce AI-based discriminatory hiring practices is incomplete, experts say. The legislation fails to address human bias, among other loopholes.
Cities have ways to curb gun violence; feds are giving them more money
Lawmakers have recognized community violence intervention programs save lives and taxpayer dollars.
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