- Economic Justice
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Workers’ Rights Local Government Round Up | July 2023
Check out some of the landmark workers’ rights policies that passed across the country over the last few months, as well as news of recent enforcement actions!
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‘Suit up for the backlash!’: The battle to regulate New York’s gig economy
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander says efforts to establish a minimum wage for food delivery workers have met well-funded resistance from the sector’s leading players.
- Economic Justice
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New Resource Helps Local Electeds Use Procurement to Advance Equity
Our newly released report – a joint collaboration between In The Public Interest and the Local Progress Impact Lab – offers a roadmap for community advocates and local elected officials to examine how governmental entities can better design their procurement processes to incorporate public values.
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📬 The Network Download | Passing rent caps, supporting LGBTQ+ communities & more | June 2023
Check out what our network has been up to this month!
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School Board Members Are Organizing to Build a Multi-Racial Democracy
More than 40 school board members from 16 states across the country gathered in Baltimore for two days of strategy, peer learning, community building, and leadership development at our first-ever school board convening. Check out the highlights here!
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LPMN State Download 🌻 | Tenant protections, legislative recap & more! | June 2023
Check out what LPMN is up to!
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LPTX State Download ☀️ | Legislative round-up & exciting announcements! | June 2023
See what our LPTX Chapter has been up to!
- Abortion & Reproductive Rights, Home Rule
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Republicans Are Systematically Blocking Cities’ Ability to Protect Abortion
As we approach the one-year mark of the devastating Dobbs decision, LP's LiJia Gong & Gaby Goldstein with Sister District sound the alarm on state legislatures interfering with cities' attempts to advance reproductive justice.
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LPNC State Download ☀ | ARPA Strategy Meeting, legislative session updates, and more | Summer 2023
Here's some of the latest news and exciting updates from our North Carolina chapter.
- Economic Justice, Immigrant Justice, Leveraging Federal Resources
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Federal Advocacy Roundup | June 2023
The June 2023 Local Progress Federal Advocacy Roundup breaks down the debt ceiling deal, the Trump indictment, the Supreme Court's decision in Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. Teamsters, and the status of asylum seekers post-Title 42.
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Minnesota local leaders strategize for the next wave of change
As Minnesota's 2023 state legislative session comes to a close, local leaders across the state came together last week to strategize on housing policy and narrative, learn from one another, build community, and dream up change.
- Home Rule, Public Safety
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Six Florida Cities Succeed In Reducing Harm Of HB 1, End Court Challenge
Southern Poverty Law Center shared a press release marking the end of six Florida cities' lawsuit against HB 1, Florida's anti-protest and anti-local control bill.
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- Leveraging Federal Resources
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I’m the Mayor of St. Paul. Here’s How Our City Is Erasing $100 Million in Medical Debt.
More and more local governments are using federal funds to relieve residents’ medical debt. Mayor of Saint Paul Melvin Carter explains why it's a simple, straightforward way to meet our communities’ needs.
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Opinion: One Year Later, Local Leaders Must Be Bold Despite “Death Star” Law
July 1, 2024 marks one year since the City of Houston sued the state of Texas over the Death Star law. San Marcos City Councilmember Alyssa Garza makes the case that now is the time to be bold – to advance policies that uplift the very communities our legislature wants to silence.
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Is this European city a model for Philadelphia’s affordable housing? One Council member thinks so
Philadelphia City Councilmembers Jamie Gauthier and Kendra Brooks visited Vienna earlier this year with Local Progress to learn about its housing polices.
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New York Pols Back Gounardes’s Bill to Cut Driving by 20%
For decades, transit planners have widened roads and expanded highways as cities have grown. But these interventions have only increased traffic and worsened pollution. LP members in New York wrote to legislative leaders demanding state DOT take a new approach to planning.
press Releases
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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.
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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.
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Local Leaders Denounce Senate Deal That Would Gut Asylum
In response to the Senate’s proposed border deal that would gut asylum in exchange for foreign military spending, Local Progress released this statement.
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📬 LP Network Download | Traffic safety, ceasefire, history in Minnesota, & more! | January 2024
Here’s a look at some of what’s happening across the Local Progress network this month.
