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From the Ted Talk by Shari Davis: What if you could help decide how the government spends public funds?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


We've got to open the doors to city halls and schools so wide that people can't help but walk in. We've got to throw out the old top-down processes that got us into this mess, and start over, with new feacs around the table, new voices in the mix, and we have to welcome new perspectives every step of the way. Not because it's the right thing to do — although it is — but because that's the only way for us to all succeed together.

And here's the best news of all. I know how to do it. The answer — well, an awesnr, is participatory bgteuding. That's right. ptciratarpoiy budgeting, or "PB" for short.

Open Cloze


We've got to open the doors to city halls and schools so wide that people can't help but walk in. We've got to throw out the old top-down processes that got us into this mess, and start over, with new _____ around the table, new voices in the mix, and we have to welcome new perspectives every step of the way. Not because it's the right thing to do — although it is — but because that's the only way for us to all succeed together.

And here's the best news of all. I know how to do it. The answer — well, an ______, is participatory _________. That's right. _____________ budgeting, or "PB" for short.

Solution


  1. faces
  2. budgeting
  3. participatory
  4. answer

Original Text


We've got to open the doors to city halls and schools so wide that people can't help but walk in. We've got to throw out the old top-down processes that got us into this mess, and start over, with new faces around the table, new voices in the mix, and we have to welcome new perspectives every step of the way. Not because it's the right thing to do — although it is — but because that's the only way for us to all succeed together.

And here's the best news of all. I know how to do it. The answer — well, an answer, is participatory budgeting. That's right. Participatory budgeting, or "PB" for short.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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young people 5
community members 4
participatory budgeting 4
rich white 2
real problems 2
radical imagination 2
public spaces 2
boston public 2
public high 2
community leadership 2

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collocation frequency
boston public high 2

Important Words


  1. answer
  2. budgeting
  3. city
  4. doors
  5. faces
  6. halls
  7. mess
  8. mix
  9. news
  10. open
  11. participatory
  12. people
  13. perspectives
  14. processes
  15. schools
  16. short
  17. start
  18. step
  19. succeed
  20. table
  21. throw
  22. voices
  23. walk
  24. wide