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Right now, inflation and housing prices are a struggle across the nation for people of all economic levels. In San Antonio, those two issues are combining with the end of the COVID-era eviction moratorium, collectively causing a housing crisis. Solutionaries looks at the big picture, laying out current solutions and needs that still have to be met.

How much to pay San Antonio city council members, whether to add more council districts, and independent redistricting could all end up on San Antonio voters’ ballots next year. But it will depend first on what a 15-members citizen commission decides over the next six months.

For more than 1-in-3 children who grow up in poverty, the American Dream stays out of reach. Held back by a daunting combination of disadvantages faced by people who grow up in low-income households, they remain poor in adulthood.

Here is how smart education policy can make community colleges drivers of economic mobility, employment, and dynamism in local communities.

The SNP has been accused of “playing games with community safety for political gain” after it emerged that the Scottish Government had kept…

Nonresident scholar Harry Holzer discusses what more the federal government can do to support workforce development.

Inspired by a highly-replicable model in San Antonio, this workforce development program has spent two decades transforming El Paso’s low-income students into skilled professionals.

The $229 million sales tax funded program is one of the first of its kind for the U.S. and Walsh said he’d like to see it replicated in other cities. “Ready to Work '' uses a 1/8th of a cent sales tax to fund job training and new careers for people who have little to no experience in a field that’s new to them. The program kicked off just before this summer and, so far, has about 5,000 applicants going through the process.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh recently joined Chancellor Dr. Mike Flores, St. Philip’s College President Dr. Adena Williams Loston and others to tour the St. Philip’s College - Southwest Campus as part of his support of the city’s Ready to Work program.

Michael Ramsey, the city's Workforce Development executive director, noted some critical partner agencies are currently shortstaffed.