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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. Conclusion Ending the ability of housing and mortgage industry groups to block reforms designed to restore normal price competition will create several public policy benefits.

Advocacy 101
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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

Social media offer opportunities to citizens the world over to come together and share information and ideas, potentially providing “long-term tools that can strengthen civil society and the public sphere” (Shirky, 2011). Not surprisingly, there is growing scholarly interest in the mediation of activism and political campaigning.