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Update on Participatory Budgeting in Chicago
The Watson Institute published an update on the participatory budgeting process that Gianpaolo and I are helping to plan in Chicago:
On April 29, Watson Institute Associate Professor Gianpaolo Baiocchi traveled to Chicago to help kick-start an experiment in democracy, along with Joshs Lerner, from The New School for Social Research, and Karen Dolan, from the Institute for Policy Studies' Cities for Progress project. Chicago's 49th Ward is vying to become the first community in the US to use participatory budgeting to allocate its municipal budget funds. Alderman Joe Moore of the 49th Ward asked Baiocchi and his colleagues to train the community in participatory budgeting, a process in which residents directly decide how to spend public money.
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Participatory Budgeting in Chicago
Since the beginning of 2009, we have worked with Alderman Joe Moore and community leaders to launch the first participatory budgeting process in the US, with the Alderman's $1.3 million ward budget.
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