The City of Cambridge will spend nearly $22 million of federal funding on direct payments to low-income Cambridge families, Cambridge Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui announced Wednesday. The money — allocated ...

The City of Cambridge announced the launch of “Rise Up Cambridge,” a direct cash program to combat family poverty and income inequality, at a news conference Tuesday. Rise Up Cambridge is a $22 ...

When people hear the phrase “low income,” Cara Gows imagines many probably think of those who work for minimum wage or those who don’t work much at all. In Massachusetts, where she lives, she said, ...

CAMBRIDGE - Giving money directly to low-income families in Cambridge paid off in more ways than one, researchers say. Results of the Cambridge RISE pilot program, a guaranteed income initiative which ...

Last month, the city of Cambridge expanded it’s so-called Curbside Composting program to pick up food scraps from 25,000 households in the city. But it turns out all that food isn’t actually being ...

It started with one of those "you're so ugly" insults kids throw around when they're feeling mean. Deven, then a fifth-grader in the Cambridge Public Schools, blew up. "I threw my lunch tray at a kid, ...

Since its launch in July 2020, the Housing Stabilization Program has issued over $1.2 million in funds and helped over 200 households with housing costs in Cambridge. In the next six months, the ...

Corrected: An earlier article provided incorrect information on expansion plans for the Miami-Dade County, Fla., school system. Within three years, the district expects to have Cambridge offerings in ...

With applications now open for small businesses to participate in the city-run commercial compost pilot program, Cambridge is on track to having the second-largest composting program on the East Coast ...

Saturday marks two years since the death of Sayed Faisal, a 20-year-old college student who was shot by a Cambridge police officer while experiencing a mental health crisis. Cambridge police said ...