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Meet the featured customer speakers for the Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

Johnson joined Covered California after serving as the chief deputy director at the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), California’s Medicaid agency, from 2007 to 2017. Johnson holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting from St. Louis University.

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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The GSEs now engage in extensive credit risk transfer (CRT) transactions, whereby institutional investors take on portions of their single-family mortgage credit risk. Previously, the two companies held onto 100 percent. By comparison, median household income was rising from 2016 through 2020 by only 2.6 percent decline. [20]

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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

According to the MarketLinks blog, Sustainable Public Procurement and the Business Environment , “taxpayers around the world are increasingly holding governments accountable to spend public funds for their social and economic benefit in a sustainable manner. Using equipment longer, or leasing when needed, is another way to reduce waste.

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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). Naturally, those opposing reform often exploit these fears.

Advocacy 101
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Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The lawsuit alleged that the defendants engaged in practices to restrict price competition in single-family brokerage commissions, in particular for homebuyers. In 2007, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a non-partisan research arm of Congress, studied title insurance.

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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

," (2013) Civic assets as a network The "change isn't that simple" entry discusses multiple cities with wide-ranging anchor project development with branding similarities to the "Signature Streets" proposal. Other cities have differently named similar organizations. Generally, they have the power to weigh in on matters before government bodies.

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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

Because social media can increase the perceived social and public equity, users are more likely to engage in active participation. 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. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008).