California orders Volkswagen to build more electric-car charging stations in poor neighborhoods The German automaker previously agreed to support clean vehicles by spending $800 million in California, part of a total of $2 billion nationally.

The one area where racial disparities in housing have disappeared Black and white people have an equal chance at getting quality public housing — but poor neighborhoods are still largely black.

Are Philly Catholic schools experiencing a resurgence? For the first time in decades there's evidence that Catholic schools in poor, non-Catholic neighborhoods have a future. And there's further evidence that the government wants to fuel their growth.

Free Wi-Fi and phone charging stations are hiding in plain sight in NYC Now you have the New York City streets for free (and speedy) Wi-Fi. At least that’s what the NYC government and CityBridge, a joint public-private consortium of experts in tech, media, and…

Thousands of Ohio Voters in Poor Neighborhoods Will Be Unable to Vote in November Over 100,000 voters in Ohio’s three largest counties may show up to the polls in November and find themselves unable to vote, Reuters reports. The largest chunk of these will be Ohioans who live in poor, black neighborhoods, and who would be likely Read more ... to vote Democrat, if they were allowed to vote at a...

Electing to Ignore the Poorest of the Poor Selective government assistance programs have left behind the persistently poor, an issue that has not been addressed in the presidential election season.

Why aren't bicyclists entitled to free air at gas stations? Jonathan says the police consider his bike a vehicle on the roads, meaning he can be ticketed for violating a traffic law.

He's too poor to afford a doctor but not poor enough for government help. That's where they come in. Reminding us there's a lot of good in the world, an Ivy League-educated cardiologist works for free.

Modest wattage, high impact for Philly neighborhood FM stations Three low-power will launch in the city launch thanks to more than a decade of activism and with FCC permission.

How government helps the 1 percent How government helps the 1 percent at the expense of the poor and the middle class.