{"id":15456,"date":"2015-07-17T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T18:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=15456"},"modified":"2015-07-17T14:52:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T18:52:55","slug":"youth-participatory-budgeting-boston-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=15456","title":{"rendered":"youth Participatory Budgeting in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April, 2014, I had the pleasure of watching Boston teenagers begin a youth Participatory Budgeting process. The city has asked them to decide how to allocate $1 million of capital funds, engaging their peers in research, deliberation, and voting. I described my observations in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/transformation\/peter-levine\/you-can-add-us-to-equations-but-they-never-make-us-equal-participatory-b\">You can add us to equations but they never make us equal: participatory budgeting in Boston<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now their decisions have been announced. The projects they selected include extending the city&#8217;s bicycle share system and free WiFi to additional neighborhoods, installing water bottle refill stations, and renovating a high school gym. The photo below shows some of the kids with Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.participatorybudgeting.org\/blog\/pbp-news-big-award-for-boston-your-vote-results-job-openings\/\">More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net\/participatorybudgeting\/mailings\/174\/attachments\/original\/image01.png?1436900413\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April, 2014, I had the pleasure of watching Boston teenagers begin a youth Participatory Budgeting process. The city has asked them to decide how to allocate $1 million of capital funds, engaging their peers in research, deliberation, and voting. I described my observations in &#8220;You can add us to equations but they never make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocating-civic-education","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15464,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15456\/revisions\/15464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}