By helping worker-owned cooperatives launch, the city is trying to boost its lower-income residents.
Read the story at POLITICO Magazine.
More of my coverage of urban jobs efforts:
Detroit’s Plan to Make Sure Redevelopment Boosts the Whole City
A groundbreaking law requires new projects to hire locally and build neighborhood amenities.
Her voters, convinced the Democratic Party had abandoned them, helped turn the state red. Can she find the right message to woo them back?
Read the story at POLITICO Magazine.
I’m writing about the New Hampshire primary for the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism’s Manchester Divided wire service.
In the 1868 impeachment trial, the power to end a presidency created intense pressure on the senators who would cast the deciding votes.
The city is fighting diet-related illnesses in its poorest neighborhoods one fresh tomato at a time.
‘Zero Waste’ might be the impossible dream, but San Francisco isn’t giving up.
Read the story at POLITICO Magazine.
With schools across 10 states, the P-TECH program prepares its students for good jobs that corporations pay well for.
Read the story at POLITICO Magazine.
More of my education coverage:
How Kalamazoo Is Fine-Tuning Its Groundbreaking Free College Program: Scholarship money doesn’t remove all the barriers to getting a postsecondary degree.
Desperate to build more housing, the city just rewrote its decades-old zoning rules.
A theater next to Sears? Art class across from Aeropostale? When a mall declines, new experiences take over abandoned spaces.
How a fast-growing city has invested heavily in mass transit alternatives to keep a lid on gridlock.
Read the story at POLITICO Magazine.
More of my transportation coverage:
New York Experiments with a ‘Holy Grail’ to End Gridlock The first American city is about to try congestion pricing. Will it be a miracle or meh?
