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Boston Globe: R.I. asked ordinary people how to spend over $1m on their neighborhoods. Here’s how that process could be the future.

A group of residents from Central Falls and Pawtucket, R.I., look through the details of projects area residents designed that could be funded through a participatory budgeting process. LISC photo Here’s what was funded, and how Rhode Island could adopt a participatory budget process in other areas of the state. By Alexa Gagosz The Boston Globe Last summer, residents of three Rhode Island cities were asked to figure out how to spend nearly $1.4 million. Teenagers as young as 13 were asked to participate, all the way up to to adults well into their 70s. Some live not far from…