Bruce Katz
Writer at The Philadelphia Citizen
Inter-disciplinary urbanist | Director of Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University I Co-author of The #NewLocalism
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1 week ago |
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Bruce Katz
May. 06, 2025 In his January 1959 State of the Union, in the waning years of his presidency, President Dwight Eisenhower called for a Commission on National Goals. In a speech dominated by Cold War concerns and gargantuan military spending, Eisenhower took the privilege of the presidency to “express something that is very much on my mind:”The basic question facing us today is more than mere survival — the military defense of national life and territory.
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3 weeks ago |
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Bruce Katz
Local and state actors have been taking stock of what the current moment in Washington means, assessing regional exposure to the effects of federal agency restructuring, spending cuts, workforce reductions and radical shifts in trade, immigration, health and science policies. For the most part, a broad array of federal grantees, borrowers and recipients are responding to the immediate impacts.
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1 month ago |
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Bruce Katz
And so, it begins. Amidst the daily noise and chaos, the U.S. has begun a grand experiment, the radical defederalization of roles and responsibilities in the nation. We have seen versions of this movie before of course, particularly during the 1980s when the Reagan presidency drove state innovations around healthcare and welfare reform.
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2 months ago |
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Malcolm Burnley |Bruce Katz
In 2017, my two best friends moved to Phoenix. We had all moved to Philadelphia about the same time, four years earlier. We struck up close friendships, explored the city together, and came to love the word jawn. I doubt I’d call this jawn home today if I’d never met them. Oddly enough, 2017 was also the same year that Phoenix leapfrogged Philly in population. (Do I blame my friends? Absolutely.) It turns out they were a harbinger for migration patterns that have emerged since then.
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2 months ago |
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Bruce Katz
The Philadelphia Citizen practices solutions-based journalism. We don’t just report on the challenges our city faces, we report the potential solutions to those challenges. In this story: Actions taken by the Administration have already eliminated fair housing protections and scaled back the HUD workforce.
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