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Strategies for Landing Your Dream Job in Parks & Recreation

Let's Talk Parks

The housing market crisis had just occurred in 2007, and I graduated in 2009. The park district only receives about 5% of the community’s tax dollars, and the rest of a very small portion of our budget is tax funded. You’re demonstrating yourself as responsible, accountable, and having good communication skills.

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Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

Read them to learn how a city budget works, how townhall meetings are conducted, and even to see the inner workings of a police department. Lynch writes on everything from the budget to public service. There are also interactive resources on the budget for the viewing. One of the latest posts was on the proposed budget.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In Part 1 of this series, it was estimated that total closing costs for both buyer and seller accounted for at least 7 to 11 percent of the purchase price of a typical home, surpassing the average 6 to 7 percent down payment made by first-time homebuyers (FTHBs). There seem to be three reasons for this exceptionalism.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world. In classic accounts, the problem of achieving effective coordination within movements was so great as to be central to the structuring of activism (Vragra, 2013).