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Sign Up for Next D&D Climate Action Network Calls Today!

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As we shared last month here on the blog, NCDD is supporting an important new initiative called the D&D Climate Action Network (D&D CAN) that is being led by NCDD supporting member Linda Ellinor of the Dialogue Group. The Network’s purpose is to build a networked community of practice that connects members, fosters learning from each other, and stimulates collaboration. Ultimately, the goal is to build a community of practice that fosters mutual learning, sharing, and inspires collaboration around the complexities of climate change, and in light of last week’s historic Paris climate deal and all the work ahead that it entails, the D&D CAN initiative couldn’t come at a more relevant time.

We highly encourage our NCDD members to get involved in D&D CAN, and one of the best ways to to do that is to join their monthly networking and discussion conference calls. The calls are focused on a different climate-and-dialogue topic every month, but spots are limited to 20 as of now, so make sure you sign up ASAP!

This month’s call is topic is “Talking about Climate Change”, and will be taking place tomorrow, December 15th from 5-7pm Eastern / 2-4pm Pacific. Here are a few words the Linda used to describe the call:

Let’s discover how we can bring our dialogue and conversational skills to meet climate change. As many of us know, climate change is one of the hardest topics to bring up in everyday conversation for a variety of reasons. Please come prepared to offer experiences that have helped you be successful in facilitating conversations about climate change.

The only requirement for joining is a desire to use conversational leadership or participatory processes in climate-change related work.  Our main goal is to help all of us work more strategically in transforming our world to greater resiliency.

Space on the call is going fast, so make sure you register online today by clicking here.

D&D CAN has also announced the next two calls for January and February 2016, so save the dates:

  • January topic: “What are we learning about large-scale civic engagement from the Paris Climate Talks?”
    Date: January 19, 2016, 2-4pm Pacific Time / 5-7pm Eastern
  • February topic: “What are we learning about working with faith-based communities?”
    Date: February 16, 2016, 2-4pm Pacific Time / 5-7pm Eastern

In case you need help signing up, here are the directions for registering for the calls:

Once you create your own password, please fill out the profile. If you have already joined, you can find the profile questions by going to “my page” and clicking on “options” at the top right of the page and then clicking on “edit my profile”.

If you have already joined our Ning group, please register for Tuesday’s call by going to the Ning site and clicking on the “Register here” link at the top left of the home page.

We can only take the first 20 people who sign up, so please do so ASAP, if you are interested in participating. If you have to cancel for any reason, please contact Linda Ellinor at lellinor25@gmail.com.

We encourage you to learn more about the D&D Climate Action Network by visiting http://ddclimateactionnetwork.ning.com. You can also learn more from our first announcement about the network at www.ncdd.org/19299.

Open Gov’t Action Plan Holds Promise for D&D, Civic Tech

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Just over a month ago, the White House released the third version of its Open Government National Action Plan that includes upwards of 40 initiatives to advance its commitment to “an open and citizen-centered government,” and we encourage NCDD members to take a look at it. While the plan covers a lot of ground, some of that ground is in our field, and that could mean opportunities to grow and deepen our work that we won’t want to miss.

The Open Government Action Plan is part of the White House’s involvement in the international Open Government Partnership (OGP), in which 66 countries participate as a way to “increase public integrity, enhance public access to information, improve management of public resources, and give the public a more active voice in government processes.” All of the goals of the OGP can be a boon to both the field of dialogue & deliberation as well as civic tech, so we encourage folks to take notice of the parts of the Open Government Action Plan that may pertain to your specific niche or even create new funding streams or partnerships that you can take advantage of.

For example, the White House’s plan includes a promise that it “will work with communities, non-profits, civic technologists, and foundation partners to develop new commitments that will expand the use of participatory budgeting in the United States,” so if you are thinking about trying PB as a part of your D&D work, now is the time!

For some more of an idea of what’s in the plan, read this snippet from the White House’s recent blog post on its release:

In the third Open Government National Action Plan, the Administration both broadens and deepens efforts to help government become more open and more citizen-centered. The plan includes new and impactful steps the Administration is taking to openly and collaboratively deliver government services and to support open government efforts across the country. These efforts prioritize a citizen-centric approach to government, including improved access to publicly available data to provide everyday Americans with the knowledge and tools necessary to make informed decisions.

We see this commitment to open and “citizen-centered” government as a direct result of the years of our field’s work and as a sign that now is the time to keep stepping up our contributions to better, more democratic governance at all levels. We encourage our members and others in the D&D and civic tech field to use this White House plan as a platform to continue moving forward in bigger and better ways!

You can find all the specifics of what’s in the report by downloading the PDF version of it at www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/final_us_open_government_national_action_plan_3_0.pdf.

We also encourage you to read the full version of the White House blog post on the report’s release at www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/10/27/advancing-open-and-citizen-centered-government.

Teach a Public Deliberation Class with NIFI & OLLI

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We encourage our NCDD members to consider taking advantage a unique opportunity to teach a course on public deliberation at a university near you in collaboration with the NCDD member organizations National Issues Forums Institute and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Helping teach an OLLI class is a great way to spread awareness and understanding of our field while also keeping yourself sharp! We encourage you to learn more about the opportunity in the NIFI post below or to find the original here.

Would You Like to Serve as a National Issues Forums Institute Professor?

The Bernard Osher Foundation has provided a $1 million endowment to 119 colleges and universities across the nation to establish Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes (OLLI). These institutes are housed in the Continuing Education departments of the schools and offer noncredit courses for senior citizens. The National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI) has been offering a course entitled Learning from Others: The Power of Public Deliberation through the OLLI program at the University of Dayton.

The six-week course meets weekly for two hours, and different NIFI issue guides are used each week as the focus of a forum with the class. The students obtain a copy of the issue guide from the NIFI website or it is supplied as a part of the course fee. Carol Farquhar Nugent of NIFI has been serving as the convener and recorder for the course, and various individuals have served as moderators. The course has been running for three years with a full class (20-25 students) each term and very favorable ratings.

NIFI would like to offer a similar course at each of the universities where OLLI programs exist. Click here to see a list of the schools with OLLI programs.

If you live near one of these institutions, would you like to help us establish a course there? It would be a lot of fun and would help the Kettering Foundation and NIFI spread the word about the power of public deliberation.

If you are interested, please e-mail Carol Farquhar Nugent at cfarnug@nifi.org.

You can find the original version of this NIFI post at www.nifi.org/en/groups/would-you-serve-national-issues-forums-institute-nifi-professor.

2015 Brown Democracy Medal Highlights “Caring Democracy”

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In case you missed it, the McCourtney Institute for Democracy – an NCDD member organization – announced the winner of their 2015 Brown Democracy Medal earlier this fall. The medal went to Dr. Joan C. Tronto for her scholarly work in challenging us to rethink our democracy’s relationship to caring for people. We encourage you to read more about her work and the award in the Penn State News announcement below or to find the original here.

‘Caring Democracy’ author selected for Brown Democracy Medal

Mccourtney Institute LogoJoan C. Tronto, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota and author of the book “Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice” (NYU Press), has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the Brown Democracy Medal, which is presented annually by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy in Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts. She received the Brown Democracy Medal and gave a public talk Oct. 30th, at a ceremony held at Paterno Library on Penn State’s University Park campus.

The Brown Democracy Medal was endowed in 2013 by Penn State alumni Larry and Lynne Brown, class of 1971 history and class of 1972 education, respectively. The medal honors the best work being done to advance democracy in the United States and internationally. Under the award program, the McCourtney Institute for Democracy will recognize practical innovations, such as new institutions, laws, technologies or movements that advance the cause of democracy. In addition, future awards will highlight contributions in democratic theory that enrich philosophical conceptions of democracy and empirical work that promises to improve the functioning of democracies. Along with the medal, recipients receive $5,000, give a public talk at Penn State, and write an essay to be published by Cornell University Press.

In her groundbreaking book, “Caring Democracy,” Tronto argued we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective.  She asked us to reconsider how we allocate care responsibilities in a democracy.

According to her book, Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people’s time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people and ourselves. At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should help citizens to care better, people see caring as unsupported by public life and deem the concerns of politics as remote from their lives. Caring Democracy traces the reasons for this disconnection and argues for the need to make care, not economics, the central concern of democratic political life.

”The idea that production and economic life are the most important political and human concerns ignores the reality that caring, for ourselves and others, should be the highest value that shapes how we view the economy, politics and institutions such as schools and the family,”  Tronto wrotes. ”Care is at the center of our human lives, but it is currently too far removed from the concerns of politics. We need to look again at how gender, race, class, and market forces misallocate caring responsibilities and think about freedom and equality from the standpoint of making caring more just.”

John Gastil, director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy, said, ”The Institute chose to celebrate Dr. Tronto’s work because it forces people to rethink the obligations we have to one another in democratic societies. Modern rhetoric about democracy places due emphasis on personal freedom, but responsibilities can get overlooked. Dr. Tronto also stresses that caring for one another is less a burden than a fulfilling act, which reminds us all of how interdependent we are on one another across the country and across the generations.”

The McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State promotes rigorous scholarship and practical innovations to advance the democratic process in the United States and abroad. The Institute examines the interplay of deliberative, electoral, and institutional dynamics. It recognizes that effective deliberation among citizens has the potential to reshape both the character of public opinion and the dynamics of electoral politics, particularly in state and local communities. Likewise, political agendas and institutional processes can shape the ways people frame and discuss issues. The Institute pursues this mission, in part, through supporting the work of its constituent units, the Center for Democratic Deliberation (CDD) and the Center for American Political Responsiveness (CAPR).

The Brown Democracy Medal review committee considered dozens of applications nationwide. The committee evaluated submissions based on the criteria of the innovation’s novelty, its effectiveness and potential for diffusion across different societies and cultures, its non-partisan orientation, and the recency of the democratic innovation.

You can find the original version of this Penn State News post at http://news.psu.edu/story/366183/2015/09/02/caring-democracy%E2%80%99-author-selected-brown-democracy-medal.

Listen to Common Ground for Action Tech Tuesday Call & Join NIFI’s #CGAFriday Series on the Economy

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Earlier this week, NCDD hosted another installment of our Tech Tuesday call series, this time focused on the Common Ground for Action (CGA) online deliberative tool from Kettering Foundation and Conteneo. Over 50 participants joined us for the call, which featured NCDD members Amy Lee and Laura Richardson taking us on an in-depth tour of this awesome online tool.

NIFI-CGA_Branded_LogoThe call was a great chance to learn more about how to use CGA for our own purposes and hear about opportunities to get further training with the tool, and we had a very informative discussion after the initial presentation. If you missed out on the call, don’t worry, we recorded the presentation and discussion, which you can see and hear by clicking here. Thanks again to Amy, Laura, and everyone who participated!

Looking for a chance to try out Common Ground for Action yourself? Then we highly encourage you to participate in the #CGAFridays series this month when NIFI will be hosting three opportunities for you to try both their CGA tool and their new issue guide about economic security and inequality, Making Ends Meet: How Do We Spread Prosperity and Improve Opportunity? Insights from these deliberative forums will be used in the Kettering Foundation’s reporting to federal policymakers throughout 2016.

If you’d like to participate in any of these forums, all you need to do is click the link below to register. Then, the day before the forum you’ve signed up for, you’ll receive an email with a unique URL. To join the forum, simply click that link no more than 10 minutes before the forum start time. The dates of the CGA Friday series and links to register are here:

These forums are open to the public, so feel free to share and to spread the word on social media using the hashtags #CGAFridays and #MEM+CGA. If you have any questions, email cga@nifi.org.

To find out more about CGA, visit www.nifi.org/en/common-ground-action.

To sign up to get trained as a moderator, visit www.nifi.org/en/groups/new-moderator-form
or www.everyvoiceengaged.org.

To learn more about NCDD’s Tech Tuesday series and hear recordings of past calls, please visit www.ncdd.org/events/tech-tuesdays.

Apply for 2016 Taylor Willingham Legacy Fund Grants

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In case you missed it, we wanted to mention that the National Issues Forums Institute is accepting applications again for the 2016 round of grants from the Taylor L. Willingham Legacy Fund. The $500-$1,000 grants are intended to honor the legacy of Taylor Willingham and her contributions to the field of deliberative democracy by supporting projects in the field, and we highly encourage NCDD members to apply for a grant or to donate to the fund.

NIF logoApplications are due on December 31st, 2015 so make sure you apply before getting swept up in the holiday season! You can download a PDF of the application form by clicking here, and you can learn more about Taylor and make a donation to her legacy fund by clicking here.

You can learn more in NIFI’s announcement about the newest round of applications at www.nifi.org/en/groups/apply-now-taylor-l-willingham-legacy-fund-award.

Akron Millennials’ Advice on Engaging Youth in Civic Life

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Engaging young people is often something that many in our field know we need to do, but aren’t sure how. So we wanted to share a recent post from the team at the Jefferson Center, an NCDD member organization, in which they share recommendations from Millennials about how local governments can increase young people’s participation. It comes as part of a broader project on engaging Millennials, and we encourage you to read more in the Jefferson Center post below or to find the original here.

JeffersonCenterLogoYoung People Don’t Vote

Young people don’t vote. Millennial turnout at the polls is dismal, especially for local and off-year elections. To be fair, young people have never turned out at the rate of older Americans. But even the turnout gains seen during President Obama’s election in 2008 have eroded, and quickly.

By their own admission, many young voters lack critical information about the relationship between government and the issues they care about most. Many distrust politicians and ignore the majority of candidates who fail to address their priority issues. Many feel government can’t solve the problems they see as most pressing.

We know, however, that young Americans care deeply about their communities, participating in volunteer and service activities at greater rates than older generations. What we don’t know, at least not yet, is how we can leverage that enthusiasm for community and country into more active participation in our democratic political system.

To begin answering that question, we’re exploring Millennial engagement in local elections and civic life with a pilot project in Akron, OH funded by the Knight Foundation. We’re working with major media outlets and student journalists to dive into Millennial perceptions of local government, local politics, and the role they see for themselves in local civic life as they negotiate student debt, underemployment, and more. You can read the first two articles from student journalists online in the Youngstown Vindicator, outlining Millennial priorities, and the Akron Beacon Journal, highlighting young people’s perspective on electoral politics.

We’ve also asked Akron’s Millennials to consider how we might stoke their participation in local civic life and politics more broadly. Their recommendations expressed a desire for a stronger participatory role for young people to help shape their community and their collective future

1. Educate young people about local government and their community.

  • Hire city staff whose principal responsibility is public and youth engagement.
  • Expand volunteer, internship, and mentoring opportunities for students within city government and community organizations.
  • Host mock City Councils in area schools that focus on city issues.

2. Improve City of Akron’s online presence.

  • Web interface encourages active conversation, presents a transparent budget and legislation in clear, accessible language, and highlights opportunities for direct participation.
  • Develop a City of Akron app that includes information about voting, updates on important city information, and reminders of community projects and events.

3. Create opportunities for young people to tangibly impact decision making.

  • Regularly host diverse youth “think tanks” with residents from around Akron to learn about issues and provide input for the City on appropriate courses of action.
  • Allocate a portion of the city budget for projects designed and voted on by young people (participatory budgeting).

We’re committed to working with Akron’s new mayor-elect and City Council to implement these recommendations and provide more support for youth engagement in politics. We’ll continue to share updates as we move forward.

You can find the original version of this Jefferson Center post at www.jefferson-center.org/u4d-akron.

4th Int’l Conference on PB in N. America Opens Call for Proposals

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Before you check out for the holiday this week, we encourage our members to consider responding to the call for proposals for the 4th International Conference on Participatory Budgeting in North America, which will be hosted in Boston, MA from May 20th – 22nd, 2016 by the Participatory Budgeting Project, one of our great NCDD member organizations.

The deadline to submit for the conference is December 18th, 2015, so don’t wait too long! You can read the full call for proposals here.

This year’s conference will coincide with the voting phase of the Boston’s youth participatory budgeting process, which adds an exciting focus on young people’s participation in deliberative processes to the gathering. Here is how PBP describes the conference:

The 4th International Conference on Participatory Budgeting in North America, organized by the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP), will take place in Boston, Massachusetts, USA during the voting phase of their award-winning, city-wide, youth PB process.

The conference is a space for participants and organizers of PB processes to share and reflect on their experiences so far, alongside interested activists, practitioners, scholars, elected officials, and civic designers.

The PB Conference will be organized around three themes this year:

2016 Conference Themes

  • Youth power through PB: PB in schools, youth-only processes, and nearly every other PB process in North America uniquely gives real power to young people – as young as 11! What can we do to encourage even more youth leadership with PB?
  • PB in practice: What is working well? What has been less successful? What improvements can be made in the way the process is implemented? How can we do better and be more effective with existing PB processes and how can we put more processes in place across North America and around the world.
  • Measuring impact: How do we define a good PB process? What are the best ways to define success in this context? What are innovative, effective tools and methods we can use to assess the impact of processes that are currently underway as well as to shape new PB processes.

Any proposals for workshops, presentations, panel discussions or other creative formats focused on one of these three themes will be welcomed for consideration, and you can send in proposals via the submission form at www.pbconference.org/submit. For more information, email PBP at conference@participatorybudgeting.org.

Again, the deadline for submissions is December 18th, so send in your proposals soon! Registration for the conference is slated to open in January, and early registration will end in April. We can’t wait to see how this great gathering turns out!

For more information on the 2016 PB Conference, you can visit www.pbconference.org.

Laura Chasin: A Loss for the Field and for Humanity

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We are so sorry to be sharing the heartbreaking news that Laura R. Chasin – co-founder of the Public Conversations Project and a pillar of the D&D field – passed away on November 17th. Many of us knew and loved Laura Chasin, and greatly admired her work at PCP.  She was a great supporter of NCDD, and a dear friend of mine. Please take a minute to read PCP’s message about Laura below, and if you knew Laura, I encourage you to click the link at the bottom of the message and share a reflection about Laura.

Remembering Laura R. Chasin

1936-2015

With heavy hearts and deep sadness, we share the news that our founder and greatest supporter Laura R. Chasin died unexpectedly on the evening of Tuesday, November 17th.

A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, with masters degrees in Government from Harvard and social work from Simmons College, Laura’s interests spanned political science, social work, psychodrama, family systems therapy, dialogue, and transpartisanship.

Public Conversations Project began as a question that Laura, a family therapist, asked herself – and her colleagues at the Family Institute of Cambridge – after watching a televised debate progress from disrespectful to angry to chaotic. Essentially: could the same methods that help families have safe, constructive conversations in counseling sessions also help people talk with each other in situations where there are deep differences in identity, beliefs, and values?

Laura became a co-facilitator of a multi-year, clandestine dialogue between Boston area pro-choice and pro-life leaders (following the murder of two women outside local abortion clinics), a story of sustained relationships across deep differences famously covered in The Boston Globe in 2001. From there, Laura and Public Conversations facilitated dialogue on a wide range of divisive issues, including Public Conversations’ work with the Anglican Communion. She also did extensive post-graduate training in marital and family therapy in conjunction with a private psychotherapy practice.

In the field of dialogue and deliberation, she is widely known and deeply respected for a foundational guide to  she produced with Founding Associate Maggie Herzig, Fostering Dialogue Across Divides: A Nuts and Bolts Guide from The Public Conversations Project. Laura previously served on the boards of the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Spelman College. She has also served on the boards of the Children’s Defense Fund, the Conflict Management Group, and the Institute for Faith and Politics, and on the steering committee of the Common Ground Network for Life and Choice. Deeply passionate about the transpartisan movement, Laura also worked closely with No Labels and other organizations that encourage collaboration across the aisle.

Laura and Dick Chasin were married in 1971. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, including Laura’s three children and three step-children, as well as her grandchildren. Recently, as pictured below, Laura and Dick were honored by the New York State Dispute Resolution Association.

Here is the original note to friends and followers (including a poem) from Public Conversations Project. If you would like to share your memories of Laura, we encourage you to do so here. Finally, here are some images of Laura and her colleagues throughout Public Conversations’ history.

You can find the original version of this PCP announcement at www.publicconversations.org/news/remembering-laura-r-chasin-founder#sthash.BIgyT0yy.dpuf.

Public Agenda & WNYC Release NY Opinion Survey Results

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Last month, another great D&D-public radio partnership came to fruition – this time between Public Agenda, an NCDD member organization, and WNYC. PA conducted a survey of metro NYC residents’ opinions on key public issues and released its results in an in-depth report and a series stories on The Brian Leher Show all accompanied by PA blog posts. We encourage you to check out the results of their partnership in the PA announcement below or find the original here.

PublicAgenda-logoNew York Metropolitan Area State of Mind

Over the past year, we’ve been working with WNYC to survey residents of the New York metropolitan region. We wanted to know how area residents are thinking about public issues like education, income inequality, housing costs, taxes, crime and police-community relations.

Throughout the fall, we’ll be releasing results from that survey in coordination with WNYC. Starting Monday, October 15, tune in each day to The Brian Lehrer Show at 10 a.m. ET to hear about what we found. Will Friedman and Carolin Hagelskamp, our president and director of research, respectively, will be talking with Brian about a different story each day. If you’re not in the area, you can listen online, live or after the show.

The segments will be accompanied by blog posts from us, which we’ll post below, and reporting from WNYC’s newsroom and data viz team. Don’t miss out on any of it: follow us on Facebook and Twitter, where we’ll be providing links in real time.

In November, we’ll release a couple of formal reports summarizing everything we’ve learned. Be sure you’re registered for our email list if you want to receive those reports.

The Public Agenda/WNYC Survey is the first annual Deborah Wadsworth Fund Project and is possible thanks in large part to the generosity of our donors. The survey will help inform our next annual Deborah Wadsworth project, through which we’ll seek to find collaborative solutions to an issue local residents care and worry deeply about…

Methodology

The Public Agenda/ WNYC New York Metro Area Survey was conducted between June 29 and July 21, 2015 with 1,535 residents in the New York metro area, including New York City, Long Island, Southern New York State, Northern New Jersey, and Southern Connecticut. Additional responses were collected from 219 residents on a small subset of questions between August 25 and September 4, 2015. Some questions were posed to random subsamples of the overall sample, including the reported questions on people’s view on policing and crime, which explains why the total number of responses on these questions is smaller than the total survey sample. Data were collected via phone, including cellphone, and online, and weighted to be representative of known demographics in the region.

The Results

Full Report

What’s At Issue Here?: New York Metro Area Residents on the Problems That Concern Them Most

This PDF summarizes main findings from the 2015 Public Agenda/WNYC New York Metro Area Survey.

Survey Topline

Public Agenda/ WNYC New York Metro Area Survey Topline

This document includes a full description of the questions asked in the survey, complete survey responses and a comprehensive methodology report.

Press Release, October 12, 2015

Is New York No Longer the Land of Opportunity?

New York Metropolitan Area Residents Feel Trapped by Economic Insecurity, According to New Public Agenda/WNYC Survey; Most Say Government Responds to the Wealthy, Not Them

 

Press Release, October 12, 2015

Public Agenda/WNYC Survey Finds Stark Racial Differences in How New York Metropolitan Area Residents View Crime, Policing

Black and Hispanic Residents Twice as Likely as Whites to View Police-Community Relations as a Serious Problem

 

Blog Post

What Do Residents of the Greater New York Metro Area Worry About Most?

Regardless of where they live, affordability is what residents of the greater NY metro region worry about the most.

 

Blog Post

New Yorkers Don’t Resent the Wealthy, But…

Most New York area residents say it’s ok for wealthy people to get wealthier as long as everyone else also has a good chance to get ahead. The problem is, people don’t feel like they’re getting that chance.

Blog Post

In Solving Region’s Problems, New York Area Residents See a Role for Government, and for Themselves

New York area residents see a place for both the government and for themselves in solutions to the region’s problems.

 

Blog Post

New Yorkers on Taxes: Contradictory or Common Sense?

New York area residents say high taxes are a big problem, yet they want more government spending on housing and education. What gives?

Blog Post

Police-Community Relations Strained Where Police Needed Most

Results from our recent survey with WNYC suggest that the communities that may need police the most are also likely to say their relations with the police are most problematic.

You can find the original version of this Public Agenda posting at www.publicagenda.org/pages/wnyc-new-york-metro-area-survey#sthash.F1GGrsYj.dpuf.