Steve Dubb: What led you to write Budget Justice—and how would you define the term? Celina Su: I define budget justice as giving everyday residents, especially those from historically marginalized ...

Rebecca Wei lives in Rogers Park, and like many Chicagoans, she takes the ‘L’ everywhere. “I pass by the Morse ‘L’ stop twice a day, every day, and once or twice a year, there’s a guy standing there ...

This is the second installment of “Direct Democracy in Chicago’s 5 th Ward,” a 5-part series that will follow the participatory voting process in the 5 th Ward. This series is supported by a grant ...

As trust in public institutions declines, Celina Su’s Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities calls us to imagine how government budgets can reengage citizens in the decisions ...

The City of Cambridge allocated over $1 million to seven city improvement projects in its annual Participatory Budgeting process Friday. Winning projects, nearly all of which each earned more than ...

What if changing the way the City of Detroit spends a small percentage of its annual budget could change a lot? In Detroit, 18% of eligible voters cast ballots in the last mayoral election — just ...

Evanston received $43 million from the American Rescue Plan Act in 2021 and 2022 to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hoping to identify areas of need, the city put $3 million toward a novel solution: ...

Through the dry-sounding Participatory Budgeting Project, Shari Davis is pushing a quietly radical idea: Democracy shouldn’t be confined to voting. Where issues like voter suppression, gerrymandering ...

Pamphlets for participatory budgeting processes in New York , a system that does back to ancient Greece. Daniel Latorre/Flickr, CC BY Today elected representatives take the tough decisions about ...