Over the next two years, Democrats have the unfettered ability to be an albatross around the neck of the GOP — and to make sure that what little they manage to get done due to their paper-thin majorities becomes the reason for their undoing.
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Rebel Cities 13: Porto Alegre In Brazil Shows How Participatory Budgeting Works
Citizen control of spending decisions means communities decide what their city does and does not do with public funds. For 30 years the process has worked in Brazil, and now it's spreading rapidly.
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Injecting Democracy Into Public Spending
Through a civic reform called participatory budgeting, thousands of residents in New York, Chicago and the Bay Area will be deciding over the next month how nearly $20 million of tax dollars are allocated to their cities.
