CHICAGO (WLS) -- Tens of thousands of Chicagoans cannot vote in local elections due to their immigration status. The overwhelming majority are from Latin America. Still, there is a way for some ...

After years of pushing the city of Milwaukee to establish a participatory budgeting process, the African American Roundtable will launch its own. AART will invest $40,000 to create a community-led ...

The announcement said this year’s cycle of participatory budgeting — a process in which local citizens decide how to allocate a portion of the city’s budget towards residents’ proposals — will operate ...

Saratoga Springs residents are having their voices heard in how the city spends some of its 2025 budget. Adult residents of Saratoga Springs can select from 11 proposed projects, allocating no more ...

SOMERVILLE — The city has launched its second cycle of "participatory budgeting," a program that sets aside $1 million in the city budget for residents to propose and vote on hand-picked projects.

What if you and your fellow Portlanders had a direct impact on what city funds were spent on? I’m not talking about lobbying politicians and then hoping they do what you want; I’m talking about true ...

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 ...

Sacramentans could soon have more of a say over how they’d like the city to spend taxpayer dollars, after City Council decided on Tuesday they would put money from the city’s general fund into a pilot ...

Participatory budgeting is not a radical demand. It is a practical, proven pathway toward a more democratic, resilient and ...

Residents of District 7, which covers Manhattanville, Morningside Heights, Manhattan Valley, and Hamilton Heights, are joining New York City’s annual participatory budgeting process, through which ...

CIVIL society groups are urging stronger participatory budget planning to close persistent gaps between national development plans and actual public spending, warning that limited citizen involvement ...