by activest | Dec 15, 2025 | Reports
We’re Meeting the Moment An End-of-Year Note from Micah, Napoleon, and the Activest Team Our cities are caught between impossible pressures. Federal funding is collapsing—Medicaid cuts loom in 2026, renewable energy credits are expiring and $27B in funding for...
by activest | Mar 28, 2025 | Reports
In 2022, Activest began the work of building relationships and a research agenda in New Jersey. This effort was commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with the exploratory goal of learning together what fiscal justice means and what the idea offers...
by activest | Jul 31, 2022 | Reports
Introduction This report outlines the fiscal justice analysis—which is our intersectional approach to fiscal health and racial justice —for Newark, New Jersey. New Jersey’s state and local government credit ratings serve as a core component of the...
by activest | Mar 15, 2022 | Reports
Since 2015, Activest has been a leading voice in acknowledging the materiality of Fiscal Justice in municipal finance. Fiscal justice is Activest’s multilayered, critical analysis of the equity of municipal budgets—measured at the intersection of fiscal health and...
by activest | Feb 25, 2022 | Reports
nLocal governments differ in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes they provide their residents, such as rates and distribution of toxic emissions, incarceration, and health outcomes. These outcomes are related to the quality of life of residents...
by activest | Dec 7, 2021 | Reports
A new project aims to incorporate the cost of lawsuit settlements and inequality when rating municipal bonds.nNapoleon Wallace, a bond analyst and municipal budget wonk, sees disaster in the finances of America’s largest cities where others do not.nRead the full story...
