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LPNC State Download 📣 | Protecting local democracy, funding public schools, & more! | June 2024
This quarter’s LPNC newsletter shares statewide updates, calls-to-action, and LP network updates.
- Economic Justice
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As FTC non-compete case is heard in federal court in Texas, Texas local electeds are standing up for everyday workers
A dozen local electeds in Texas are making their voices heard as the FTC non-compete case is heard in a federal court in Texas next month.
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📬 LP Network Download | Leveraging federal funds, SCOTUS case, increasing affordable housing & more! | May 2024
Here’s a look at some of what’s happening across the Local Progress network this month.
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LPTX State Download 📣 | Fighting for immigrant justice & reproductive rights for all Texans! | May 2024
Summer’s around the corner! See what’s coming up for our LPTX Chapter and how you can get involved in 2024!
- Housing
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Local Progress Members Demand New Approach To Transit Funding In New York
15 Local Progress members across New York sent a letter to Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins and Speaker Heastie, advocating for the passage A4120/S1981. The bills would direct the state Department of Transportation (DOT) to reduce Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) by 20% by 2050.
- Climate Justice
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New York Pols Back Gounardes’s Bill to Cut Driving by 20%
For decades, transit planners have widened roads and expanded highways as cities have grown. But these interventions have only increased traffic and worsened pollution. LP members in New York wrote to legislative leaders demanding state DOT take a new approach to planning.
- Climate Justice, Economic Justice, Federal Response and Advocacy
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Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity for Local Leaders to Leverage Nearly Unlimited Federal Funds
We just released a new resource with our friends at the Congressional Progressive Caucus Center to help you take advantage of a once-in-a-generation federal funding opportunity!
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LPNY State Download 🗽 | Housing, environmental, immigration work & more! | May 2024
This edition of the Local Progress New York newsletter covers our end-of-session legislative push and budget roundup!
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LP Stands with Students and Condemns the Violent Suppression of Free Speech
As a network of local elected officials, we stand in solidarity with students calling for peace and denounce the use of law enforcement or carceral threats to quell discourse and dissent.
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📬 LP Network Download | Taking action against criminalization, EATS Act, big labor win, job postings & more! | April 2024
Here’s a look at some of what’s happening across the Local Progress network this month.
- School Boards
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LP School Board Download 📚 | New steering committee members, removing SROs, attacks on DEI, & more! | April 2024
Time for our school board newsletter. This month, we’re sharing the latest news and resources around the fight to remove police from schools, DEI debates, and advocating for strong, equitable public schools across the country.
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Governing While Black: How the LP Black Caucus is Supporting Black Electeds Across the Country
Earlier this Month in Nashville, more than 20 Black leaders came together for the first-ever LP Black Caucus Convening. The group – which represented localities big and small, at all levels of local government – discussed what it means to govern while Black and how we can harness that collective power for transformative change.
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Want to get in touch with us for a story? Reach us at press@localprogress.org.
In The News
At Local Progress, we seek to make the aspirational pragmatic by showing how government can be a tool to create just and equitable outcomes and reshaping peoples’ understanding of governing from an institution to a collective responsibility. Here are some highlights of our media coverage:
- Housing
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Cities lead bans on algorithmic rent hikes as states lag behind
Minneapolis on Thursday has become the fourth U.S. city to ban algorithmic rental price-fixing software, joining San Francisco, Philadelphia and Berkeley, California, in a growing wave of legislation aimed to protect renters from rental price-gouging.
- Housing
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Portland City Council weighs ban on using algorithms to set rents
Portland, Oregon could soon be the next city to ban rental price fixing!
- Immigrant Justice
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Hundreds of State Officials Oppose Anti-Sanctuary City Act
Nearly 400 state and local electeds nationwide sent a letter to Congress today urging them to vote NO on HR 32 – a dangerous bill that would strip our communities of essential funding simply for undertaking reasonable policies that make all of us safer.
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Social Housing Emerging in Cities Needs Local Govt Support
Local Progress founding board chair Nick Licata makes the case for local governments to support social housing.
press Releases
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