McAdams named finalist in national ideas challenge

SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams' initiative to reduce and prevent homelessness is a finalist in the 2017 New Ideas Challenge — a competition among state and local policymakers to propose the best ideas for expanding opportunity and improving government.
This year's challenge, now in its third year, seeks to identify effective ways to address anxieties resulting from a new economy that has left many Americans behind.
The challenge is open to the 155 members of the