From ThinkProgress: In their television ads, for-profit colleges promise to deliver credentials that will jump-start students’ careers. The people lured in by that marketing end up deeper in debt than community college students...
Read MoreOur friend, Dorian Spears, at Mayor’s Innovation Delivery Team, emailed with an update about our community’s Economic Gardening Program, and we thought you’d be interested, particularly if you know someone who...
Read MoreFrom The Urban Child Institute’s Perceptions commentaries: By Eugene Cashman Grit is a word that is now synonymous with Memphis, thanks to the success of our Grizzlies, but it’s a word that should be associated with more...
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal: Cheer up, Big Apple residents — New York City is the most unhappy city in America. That’s according to data coming from a working paper by Harvard professor Edward Glaeser, Vancouver...
Read MoreFrom Morning Edition: Rich Kid, Poor Kid: For 30 Years, Baltimore Study Tracked Who Gets Ahead Listen to the Story Morning Edition Education is historically considered to be the thing that levels the playing field, capable of...
Read MoreFrom Governing: A poor economy and all the problems that come with it actually benefit some people, giving powerful players less incentive to improve the status quo for the rest. So many cities and regions continue to struggle...
Read MoreFrom Citiscope: “City governments need to get out of procuring by specifying the solution they want,” says Citymart co-founder Sascha Haselmayer. “What they should do is specify the problem they want to solve … and then...
Read MoreFrom CityLab: There’s a clear connection between economic inequality and low-tax, pro-business policies. Economic inequality has risen substantially in the United States over the past several decades, but its rise has been...
Read MoreFrom NPR: Our local customer service guru (and communications expert) Emily Yellin was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition this morning regarding the now-infamous Comcast “employee from hell” conversation. To...
Read MoreFrom Washington Post: If you can’t build your own, steal someone else’s. That, one economist notes, has become the default strategy for state and city governments in their pursuit of rapidly growing businesses, with many...
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