The fastest way to reveal a nation’s priorities is to take a look at its budget. Where money is allocated, improvements and expansions are made; where costs are cut, institutions and policies wither.

Celina Su, “Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities.” (Photos courtesy Princeton University Press.) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or ...

(Opinion) From protests at the state capitol to marches in the streets to students themselves taking the lead in lobbying lawmakers for increased funding, plugging the New Haven Public Schools deficit ...

The challenge of taking local interventions to national politics Overreliance on data-driven mechanisms versus community-based solutions A lack of definition of political participation beyond ...

From a Book Harvest event at the NCGA this year. Credit: Courtsy of Book Harvest When parents from Book Harvest stood behind tables at the Child Care for NC event at the North Carolina General ...

In 1989, one-third of the inhabitants of Porto Alegre, Brazil, lived in impoverished regions on the fringes of the city, cut off from sanitation, clean water, medical facilities, and other essential ...

This blog post was authored by Jeff Kuhnhenn, AIA, LEED AP, Director of Architectural Design, Gresham Smith. Over the past 40 years, there has been a slow but radical realignment in how designers and ...

Participatory Budgeting is back for its fourth cycle in Durham, allowing residents the opportunity to allot $2.4 million in city funding on (almost) whatever project idea they can dream up. Durham ...

Following one of the most successful participatory budgeting programs in the country, Evanston’s City Council decided not to fund a PB cycle for 2024. Now, the team behind PB has organized a new ...

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 ...

Meaningful child participation in medical research is seen as important. In order to facilitate further development of participatory research, we performed a systematic literature study to describe ...