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Polluters Lose, Communities Win — and People have a Greater Voice

Nov 4, 2013, 11:37 AM 0

By Maritza Martinez Green for All What if you could not only vote for who your representatives are, but also how they legislate? In Brazil and the United Kingdom, you can. And the idea is catching on in cities…

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New report on high school dropouts serves as wake-up call to the true costs to local communities

Nov 20, 2009, 11:21 AM 0

LatinaLista — A new report by the Alliance for Excellent Education shows that nearly 600,000 students living in the country’s 50 largest cities never walked across the stage in 2008 to receive a high school diploma because they dropped…