…and Cleveland partially to differences in the cities’ preexisting markets and the neighborhood needs in each city. In Charlotte, LIHTC developments brought down nearby housing prices. Cleveland, on the other hand,…
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…the year 2000,” he said. “In many communities, even City Hall doesn’t get covered. So the whistleblower who knows about official corruption in City Hall has no one to go…
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…the Education Commission of the States, “Youth Voting: State and City Approaches to Early Civic Engagement, Education Trends,” looks at efforts to encourage youth to vote in city and state…
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…of Kentucky and his colleagues tracked students in Milwaukee — the first city in the country to introduce its own voucher program — over five years. They found a relationship…
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…for a street address, town/city, state and zip code. Longitude and latitude coordinates are sometimes necessary. OpenStreetMap is a popular source for free, global geospatial data, available for download. You…
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…still available for purchase for 10 cents. Before California, cities often organized the bans: In 2016, for example, Cambridge became the first Massachusetts city to ban plastic bags altogether and require merchants to offer…
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…English fell after a major California city adopted such a policy. The issue: As U.S. communities become increasingly diverse, local governments have begun printing their forms, brochures and other materials in…
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…may contribute to ADHD. “Urinary 3,5,6-tichloro-2-pyridinol (TCPY) in Pregnant Women from Mexico City: Distribution, Temporal Variability, and Relationship with Child Attention and Hyperactivity.” International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health,…
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…raising the minimum wage to $15 in New York City would have prevented as many as 5,500 premature deaths between 2008 and 2012. A 2016 study from the National Bureau…
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…mayor who led a major city between 1992 and 2015. The researchers also collected data on the cities’ demographics from U.S. censuses in 1990, 2000 and 2010. To better understand…
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