Strengthening Transit Through Community Partnerships
When the Democratic National Convention rolled into Philadelphia, city residents stricken with poverty bluntly told The Philadelphia Inquirer that the political hoopla occurring downtown symbolized a system that doesn't help them. Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Doesn't matter, 63-year-old Carmen D. Torres of Cambria Street told the newspaper. "Every election, it's still the same."
Oftentimes, the go-to (and, in some cases, vague) solution proposed by politicians is to create more jobs. That works, according to a new report from the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), a nonprofit based in Chicago. But just having a job only solves half the problem, the report suggests, and attacking the other half of poverty's vicious cycle could help cities better tackle the problem.