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Drexel’s Metro Finance Lab Director Bruce Katz on growing inclusive wealth in city neighborhoods

The Citizen co-founder talked with the former Eagle, whose new book chronicles his journey from tragedy to triumph

In Canada, communities lifted more than 200,000 families out of poverty in seven years. Check out this story from June, and then learn more at our 2nd Annual Ideas We Should Steal Festival

Around the world, city officials gives residents money from their budgets to spend as they see fit. Check out this story from 2017 and find out more at our 2nd Annual Ideas We Should Steal Festival

New York City is now the biggest jurisdiction that will let voters rank their favorite candidates in municipal elections. Could a similar change bring better elections to Philly?

This year’s lineup includes HBO’s John Oliver, MSNBC’s Ali Velshi The Beat D.C.'s Tiffany Cross and more. Join us at the Comcast Technology Center and be part of the solution.

City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart’s new report on the economic impact of homicide proposes a proven path to reduce murders that will also increase tax revenue. Here, she talks about what comes next

The social-minded developer's newest project will offer residents a rent break to volunteer in Kensington. Could it solve the problem of gentrification?

The only gun bills the state legislature will consider this year take us backwards, not forwards. Is there anything Philly can do?

At this year’s Germination Project Draft Gala, Temple Rhodes Scholar Hazim Hardeman left us with words that all of us would do well to live by