Voice: Nick Jain
The City Agencies Serving All Philadelphians Well
An analysis of 311 help request tickets proves it is possible to provide great and timely quality of life services in every neighborhood of the city
By Nick Jain
The School District’s Staffing Bloat Is Not What You Think It Is
The School District of Philadelphia has 7,000 more positions than it did a decade ago. Thousands of rows of staffing data explains why.
By Nick Jain
Whose Mail-In Ballots Are Not Showing Up?
A shallow dive into data from the Philadelphia City Commissioners shows it’s not who you might expect
By Nick Jain
Laundromat Phones, Horse Welfare, No Spitting
A read of our City’s 2,000-page constitution reveals an accidental anthropology of the weird, outdated and pointless
By Nick Jain
18 Days in 19142. Four Days in 19103
Across nearly half a million service requests, residents in lower-income ZIP codes wait roughly twice as long for routine 311 service. The pattern is too clean to be an accident
By Nick Jain