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Facing budget shortfalls, Washington, D.C. is making cuts to homeless services to the tune of some $20 million. But the District isn’t alone in either the problem or the solution — San Fransisco is also reducing shelter and employment service funding by nearly $3 [...]
For 17 straight years, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has failed to meet their own, not-remarkably-ambitious hiring goals: that at least 11% of their workforce should be people of color and at least 6% should be women. (Minnesota is 85% white, though not 94% male.) The economic stimulus was meant to benefit everyone in hard economic times, partially through job creation in the transportation sector. African-Americans are hit disproportionately by job losses in a recession, but in Minnesota they haven’t received the full benefit from the stimulus money, an investment meant to aid everyone.
Vacant homes are becoming an increasingly visible problem in this country — some 15% of all homes in the second quarter of 2009 are sitting empty, according to the US Census Bureau. That’s 18.7 million unoccupied homes slowly decaying on lots across the country.
Yet there’s no lack of people in this country who need a [...]
We’ve said before that houses close to retail and jobs are good for public health, traffic congestion, and air quality. Aside from those worthwhile external benefits for everyone, people simply like living in walkable neighborhoods, within walking distance of the places they need to go.
The massive popularity of Walk Score — the site that measures [...]
