Topic: Ideas We Should Steal

Plus: Personal climate control (very personal) and cops teaming up with social workers to help children of violence

Plus: Bicycle superhighways and a basic-income guarantee

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