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Minnesota local electeds call for statewide Paid Family & Medical Leave
LP members in MN share their perspective on the state's proposed Paid Family and Medical Leave program, and what they’re hearing directly from their communities about it.
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Governing is a Team Sport. Introducing LP’s Leadership Collaborative.
This year we are launching the Leadership Collaborative – a cross-organizational, multi-state, multi-issue, multi-racial space hosted as four convenings over the course of the next three years.
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LPNC State Download 🌱 | NC Defend Local Democracy, ARP Cohort, & more! | Spring 2023
Here's some of the latest news and exciting updates from our North Carolina chapter.
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The Network Download: Decriminalizing abortion, reimagining traffic safety, school board updates, and more | Feb 2023
Here's a look at some of what's happening across the Local Progress network.
- School Boards
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Meet the LP’s newly-formed School Board Steering Committee!
The steering committee will guide the work of the school board cohort moving forward, bringing a diverse range of experiences and expertise to building our shared agenda.
- Immigrant Justice
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New Resource Helps Local Electeds Welcome and Support New Arrivals with Dignity
Our newly released resource aims to chronicle this roadmap – offering direction for local electeds to follow the lead of communities, and take on this shared responsibility to create a welcoming infrastructure.
- Home Rule, Housing
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Florida legislature must stop interfering with local efforts to lower rents
In what has become an annual tradition, the Florida Legislature is poised to further restrict residents’ freedom to address issues affecting our local communities. In fact, they are taking a sledgehammer to local freedom amid the worst housing crisis in our lifetimes.
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Federal Advocacy Roundup | January 2023
Since our last Federal Advocacy Roundup in early December, we’ve seen the passage of an end-of-year appropriations bill, landmark announcements from the administration on protecting tenants and migrant workers, and more!
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The Network Download: Community-led safety, wage theft protections, and more | January 2023
Here’s a look at some of what’s happening across the Local Progress network.
- Public Safety
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Localities must reimagine traffic safety. Here’s how.
Across the country, there is already work being done that reimagines traffic safety with the holistic understanding of what people need to move safely and freely within their neighborhoods and communities. This includes, among many things, removing police from traffic enforcement.
- Public Safety
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Durham Needs a New Vision of Safety
Durham City Council members and LP members Javiera Caballero and Jillian Johnson call for a new approach to an old problem.
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Local governments can and must continue protecting and expanding abortion access. Here’s how.
Today, while we commemorate Roe, we also recommit ourselves to building a world where communities thrive, and people can exercise their full agency and live with dignity. Here’s what local elected officials can do.
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Mad? Sad? Motivated? 60+ MN Orgs Working to Make the Next 4 Years (and Then Some) Suck Less.
Check out LPMN's feature in this sprawling list of organizations, groups, and collectives who are determined, political headwinds be damned, to make Minnesota a better place.
- Housing
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Big Cities Take Up Fight Against Algorithm-Based Rents
The federal government’s price-fixing lawsuit against rental-software firm RealPage could take years to resolve. Rather than wait, some cities and states are already cracking down on the company.
- Public Safety
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Do Fayetteville, NC police stop more Black drivers?
LP's former Legal Fellow Kat Kerwin and LPNC's Mario Benavente weigh in on the importance of reducing pretextual stops.
- Housing
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Council Committee Advances Landlord Anti-Collusion Bill
The Philadelphia City Council advanced a bill introduced by LPPA member Councilmember Nicholas O’Rourke that would ban price-fixing by landlords.
press Releases
- Economic Justice
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NEW REPORT: How Local Government Can Stand Up for Workers When States Try to Stand in Their Way
This new report for Labor Day 2024 highlights ways local elected officials can advance workers rights even when facing both hostile state preemption and federal labor law preemption.
- Public Safety
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How Localities Use Community Responder Programs to Keep People Safe
This new video from Local Progress and Local Progress Impact Lab focuses on three specific localities: Durham, Oakland, and Albuquerque to explain what community responder programs are, how they work, and why hundreds of localities are starting to adopt them.
- Housing
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After Grants Pass: organizing to house all our neighbors
In response to the Supreme Court's cruel decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson, we will continue to organize for housing for all.
- Housing
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Local Progress Condemns Cruel Supreme Court Decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson
In response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson, Local Progress put out the following statement.
- Climate Justice, Economic Justice, Home Rule
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180+ State and Local Elected Officials Urge Congress to Reject the EATS Act
LP and the State Innovation Exchange (SiX) released letters calling on Congress to protect local and state governments ability to create policy that is responsive to the issues their own communities face in the agricultural industry.
