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  • These Cities Are Welcoming Immigrants With Municipal ID Programs

    January 21, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Municipal ID programs such as IDNYC provide identification for residents who aren't able to access official government IDs, such as those who are undocumented or unhoused. The municipally-issued IDs make it easier for these residents to access local services and benefits and interact with officials, including law enforcement.

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  • How The Pandemic Shutdown Opened Public Access To Legislature

    January 19, 2025 |

    Honolulu Civil Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    In 2021, as a result of pandemic shutdowns, the Hawaii Legislature instituted new rules allowing more hearings and committee meetings to be recorded and broadcast, giving members of the public the opportunity to access meetings and submit testimony remotely. Last year, more than 2,300 proceedings were recorded and archived, compared to only a few hundred per year before the new rules and technology were put in place.

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  • The City That Wiped Out $100 Million in Medical Debt

    January 08, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    The city government of St. Paul, Minn. partnered with Undue Medical Debt, a nonprofit organization that buys up and forgives personal medical debt. Leveraging pandemic relief funds, the city was able to forgive more than $100 million in medical debt through the partnership.

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  • How New York Made Big Diversity Gains in Transportation Contracts

    January 03, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York City’s “small purchase” program allows the city’s Department of Transportation to offer government contracts up to a certain spending limit specifically to minority- and women-owned businesses, with the goal of diversifying the city’s pool of contractors and suppliers. In fiscal year 2024, 32 percent of the department’s contract spending went to these businesses, compared to 24 percent in 2023 and 11 percent in 2022.

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  • How One City Cut Its Poverty Rate By More Than a Third

    December 19, 2024 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building acts as a hub for connecting the city’s many anti-poverty programs and organizations, with partnerships that holistically tackle everything from job training and guaranteed income initiatives to community health programs. Since 2014, the city’s poverty rate has dropped from nearly 27 percent to 17.1 percent.

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  • Pop-Up Voting Centers Bring the Polls Directly to Unhoused Angelenos

    December 05, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles County’s Flex Vote Center Program establishes polling locations at shelters, transitional housing sites, and service centers for people who are unhoused or face other barriers to voting. In 2020, nearly 2,800 people cast their ballots through the Flex program.

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  • The Michigan Jail that Candidates Keep Visiting

    November 26, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Flint, Michigan

    Michigan’s Genessee County jail employs two formerly incarcerated organizers who help people detained there register to vote, cast their ballots, and access resources about pivotal election measures. They also coordinate forums with political candidates for offices ranging from the Michigan Supreme Court to the Flint City Council.

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  • First year of early voting a success; Midland County voter turnout second highest in history

    November 21, 2024 |

    Midland Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Midland, Michigan

    In its first presidential election with state-mandated early voting, which allowed voters to cast their ballots in-person for nine days before election day, Midland County, Mich. saw roughly 20% of its voters utilize early voting and had high turnout at 70.05%. Officials reported that they were able to streamline the early voting process with Ballot on Demand equipment that allowed voters to print their ballots on-site rather than requiring the county to print ballots in advance.

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  • Millions in rural America lack reliable internet. How Massachusetts towns got online.

    November 19, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Otis, Massachusetts

    The town of Otis, Massachusetts leveraged state and federal grant funding alongside a municipal bond to build out its own fiber-optic network, increasing access to high-speed broadband in a rural area that has historically had little. Since it’s a municipal network, the town has more control over how it’s run, and prices are typically lower than those offered by private internet providers.

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  • 'Fight for it to be better'

    November 13, 2024 |

    Southern Science |

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    The Capacity Collaborative and Thriving Earth Exchange are working together to establish volunteer community science hubs to support environmental justice projects in communities around the United States. The organizations connect communities with scientists and experts who volunteer their time to help move their projects forward.

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