CHICAGO (WLS) -- Tens of thousands of Chicagoans cannot vote in local elections due to their immigration status. The overwhelming majority are from Latin America. Still, there is a way for some ...

Boston will provide grant funding for immigrants’ legal defense as part of its second-ever round of participatory budgeting ...

When Monica Allison’s son was facing charges and awaiting trial incarcerated on Philadelphia’s State Road, she had no idea what to do. She didn’t know what to expect from the legal process — what the ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. In this excerpt from “Hyperlocal: Place Governance in a ...

Contemporary public policy is no longer able to rely on representative democracy. To stay legitimate and fulfil popular needs, it has to transform and become more participatory and digital. (L-r) ...

The last year has seen a call to defund the Chicago police and reallocate funds to mental health and community services. And while that call has not been answered, it has placed the city’s budget ...

In late September, a dozen new students from Venezuela, some of the more than 15,000 asylum seekers bused to New York City by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, appeared at my child’s elementary school. At ...

The giant octopus painted on a former SFMTA parking lot was partly funded by the District 7 participatory budget. So were the new volleyball nets at Commodore Sloat Elementary School, local “disaster ...

Participatory management is a system in which employees of a business organization take an active role in the decision-making process as it relates to the way the business operates. There are various ...

One of the most interesting aspects of this placement was the opportunity to work with the Communauté de Base (COBA), a local organization which is responsible for the implementation and monitoring of ...