Survey: Mayors unified on battling poverty, other key issues

 

January 8, 2017



BOSTON (AP) — U.S. mayors from blue and red states and regardless of party affiliation share many common concerns about poverty, racial and income inequality and immigration, according to a new survey.

The findings, based on interviews with more than 100 mayors from cities that collectively averaged 262,000 residents, point to an emerging national urban agenda as the Donald Trump administration prepares to take office, said Graham Wilson, director of the Boston University Initiative on Cities.

A report from the group, founded by Boston's former Democratic Mayor Thomas Menino before his death i...



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