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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. She also has served on the Marketing Board for the March of Dimes and continues to be involved in the Our Promise Campaign.

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The town (or place) that art saved(?): arts as revitalization versus arts as community building

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Leimert Park is decently organized, and successfully campaigned for a more directly accessible transit station as part of a new line being developed to serve their area.

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Paris votes to ban electric scooters

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The city was a pioneer in public bike-rental schemes when it launched Vélib’ in 2007, beating London by five years. From the article: N ormally, anything that combats the notorious traffic congestion on the streets of Paris deserves applause.

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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)

This substantial base of wealth provides ample resources for funding campaign donations or other political support at generous levels. This is enhanced by housing’s economic impact: it is the second largest sector of the economy, and mortgages are also one of the biggest asset classes in U.S. financial markets (e.g.,

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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

Not surprisingly, there is growing scholarly interest in the mediation of activism and political campaigning. 2007) Limiting dissent: The mechanisms of state repression in the United States. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). 2006b) Framing dissent: Mass-media coverage of the global justice movement. Boykoff, J. Boykoff, M.

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The GSEs and the Second Trump Administration: Ten Possible Mortgage Program and Policy Changes to Expect (Part 2 of 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It is thus to be expected that Trump II, now in the midst of turning its campaign politics and promises into the policies and actions of a new administration, will similarly put its stamp on how the two GSEs operate in the mortgage markets. This scenario fits the Trump campaign’s “deep state” narrative.

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