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Great Falls parking district, rate increase considered

Jenn Rowell

September 20, 2016 |

Great Falls Tribune |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Great Falls, Montana

Great Falls parking system is not properly funded, and there are a number of improvements to parking structures that need to be made. An improvement district is now being proposed that will use the money made from parking meters to be used to fund repairs.

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An Innovative Casino Scheme Helps Re-Build a Troubled Industrial City

James Fallows

September 11, 2016 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States, Erie, Pennsylvania

Erie, Pennsylvania transforms standard casino revenue into community development funds to jumpstart the city's urban and economic planning. An innovative initiative sets aside a percentage of revenue for city-wide development programs including a tech-startup initiative and youth summer jobs program.

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Staying on the Land

JR Logan

September 06, 2016 |

The Taos News |

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Response Location: United States, Taos, New Mexico

A tax break for open space may help protect New Mexico’s farm land from development, preserving generations-old tradition and ownership, while maintaining valuable land for a future agricultural resurgence.

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Is farming a public service?

Lyndsey Gilpin

September 05, 2016 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

To develop the next generation of producers, the Young Farmers Coalition non-profit is now pushing Congress and individual state legislatures to take a big step: forgiving farmers’ student loans.

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America Can Fix Its Student Loan Crisis. Just Ask Australia.

Susan Dynarski

July 09, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Australia

Around the world, students borrow money to pay for college, but, in the United States, students are more likely to fall behind on loans. Australia may offer some lessons: borrowers in Australia only start paying back their loans once their earnings reach $40,000, and beyond that they pay four percent of their income until the loans are repaid. The system does not penalize borrowers when they face economic hardship.

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A fiscal lens on police accountability

Adeshina Emmanuel

June 22, 2016 |

Chicago Reporter |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

ClaimStat is a New York city program that uses data to track allegations of police misconduct on a neighborhood level and shares the information with the public, helping prevent lawsuits against the city and diverting settlement funds to core city services like education or street cleanup. Chicago looks to learn from the program and reduce the millions spent on police misconduct lawsuits each year.

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New federal rules are aiming to crush payday lenders. But is it enough?

Anne Kim

June 10, 2016 |

Washington Monthly |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Earlier this month, the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed new rules to regulate payday lending – the business of offering high-cost short-term loans to Americans on terms that many consumer advocates consider predatory.

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Giving Homeless People Homes In SF Saved City 56% In Costs Over 4 Years

Eleanor Goldberg

June 03, 2016 |

The Huffington Post |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

In San Francisco, empirical evidence emerges that providing housing to the homeless reduces the overall cost to the average taxpayer, in large part by reducing homeless populations' dependence on other city services and improving their health by offering shelter.

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JPD Targets ‘Bandos': A Different Kind of ‘Broken Windows' Policing

Tim Summers, Jr.

May 25, 2016 |

Jackson Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson PD's Community Improvement division has been charged with destroying dangerous, dilapidated houses in low income neighborhoods, even though many are state-owned. In a resources-strapped city, where blight contributes to a vicious cycle of crime and poverty, the police take down the abandoned houses—an unusual role, but one that actually tackles the root causes of crime in an arguably more effective way than low-level fishing for arrests.

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Juvy Intervention Programs Losing Federal Funds

Arielle Dreher

May 25, 2016 |

Jackson Free Press |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

Adolescent Opportunity Programs (AOPs) are a pre-intervention method for curtailing juvenile delinquency that have proven vital in the Mississippi state's criminal-justice system - they have the power to prevent young people from entering the system in the first place and save taxpayer costs in the long-term. But federal funding is threatening to run out.

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