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Houston residents at a flooded park after the passage of Hurricane Beryl, July 8, 2024. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

A fiscal crisis is looming for many US cities

A perfect storm of rising costs and declining revenues is stressing many US city budgets – and the Trump administration isn’t likely to send much help.
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Detroit’s reparations task force now has until 2025 to make its report, but going slow with this challenging work may not be a bad thing

19 US cities have introduced local reparations initiatives to address historic harms against Black residents. But designing a program that is both popular and sustainable isn’t easy.
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The ‘world’s mayor’ – how Michael Bloomberg uses philanthropy to change the way cities are run

The increasing influence of Bloomberg Philanthropies on cash-strapped city governments raises questions about the reliability of philanthropy over the long term – and its democratic legitimacy.

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