Topic: Ideas We Should Steal

Plus: Putting kids to work in schools and using jails as a last resort

Plus: Sustainable highways and an app for your trash

An Albuquerque program pays panhandlers to clean up city trash—and gets them needed help.

A plan to provide IDs for Philly’s poor and undocumented should take a lesson from New York City

A London nonprofit adopts a filthy city street to find ways to discourage litter—and succeeds.

An inner city Detroit program places 90 percent of graduates in well-paying tech jobs. Could this be a path out of poverty for Philly residents too?

The only way to really improve student’s ability to learn? Fix everything else in their lives as well

A New York program bridges the word gap for children of the incarcerated

In Toronto, every new building has to have one.

Later today, The Citizen will announce its own get out the vote plan. Stay tuned!