The Philadelphia Citizen

Join us for the 2024 Integrity Icon Philly celebration on Thursday, May 23! For its fourth year, The Philadelphia Citizen and Accountability Lab will be naming five high-integrity city workers as this year's Integrity Icons. Join us to celebrate with family, friends, and colleagues. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.  https://lnkd.in/ewXf4NMP

The Ideas We Should Steal Festival® presented by Comcast NBCUniversal returns for its seventh year! Hear from thought leaders and change makers from around the nation sharing powerful ways we can work together to fuel much-needed progress in our city. This year’s #IWSSFest features speakers such as Universal Basic Employment CEO Devin Cotten; professor and author Dr. Michael Eric Dyson; Pulitzer-Winning Author of King: A Life, Jonathan Eig; Newsweek opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon, author of Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women; MSNBC’s Ali Velshi and Trymaine Lee; producer and director of Punch 9 for Harold Washington Joe Winston, president and CEO of Partnership for NYC Kathryn Wylde; Brookings’ Andre Perry, author of Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities; and many more! Register here: https://lnkd.in/eeYN4F_G

Only 15 percent of Philadelphia students read at grade level. A new state law has recommended a better way to teach them — but, an education advocate says, more is needed. https://ow.ly/OGzj50TSTjK #education #reading

Feeling election season burnout? Low-cost mental health help is out there. Here's where to find it: https://ow.ly/Azsu50TSSO1 #mentalhealth #therapy

"The United States knows how to design and deliver industrial policy, and we are doing it for climate, manufacturing, and defense. We must treat housing in the same way" https://ow.ly/rmnp50TP7mf

Rolling out the red carpet to kick off our Ideas We Should Steal Festival® presented by Comcast NBCUniversal with a film screening and a live podcast recording of our acclaimed podcast How to Really Run a City! Learn more here: https://ow.ly/PT6r50TOZAq

Thirty years ago, Philly led a groundbreaking effort to recruit more Black men into classrooms. A local educator is leading the charge to revive that campaign because #WeNeedBlackTeachers for the sake of our students. https://ow.ly/BjgF50TOPVt

Our New Urban Order columnist writes: Let's blame bad policies instead of a lack of social control. https://ow.ly/Ou4I50TO1lF

The federal housing crisis requires a rethinking of how we build and who is doing it. Here's how: https://ow.ly/na7B50TMcfR

"Currently, our use of space in Philadelphia and other urban districts suggests the priority of comfort and convenience over doing what is best for our students. We must do better, starting with Philadelphia." https://ow.ly/WZpL50TK1mL