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How Ancestral Knowledge Can Help Incarcerated Natives

Next City

After the Department of Corrections stripped imprisoned Indigenous people of religious freedoms in 2010, the organization Huy stepped in to advocate for them.

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UK Biobank enables medical research worldwide through vast database powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

From 2006–2010, UK Biobank recruited 500,000 UK citizens between the ages of 40 and 69 to supply biological samples (blood, urine, and saliva) and information about their lifestyle regularly on an ongoing basis. UK Biobank is the world’s most comprehensive source of health data used for research.

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Help wanted: The long-term labor tightening trend by country

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Labor markets in the world’s eight largest economies have tightened significantly since 2010, although the character and level of constraint varies among them. Here we offer a detailed portrait of each country’s labor market to illustrate the contrasts and similarities between them.

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What is Gen Z?

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Generation Z comprises people born between 1996 and 2010. This generation’s identity has been shaped by the digital age, climate anxiety, a shifting financial landscape, and COVID-19.

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NYU Furman Center Co-Faculty Director Vicki Been Submits Testimony on the Charter Revision

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Improving upon the system requires that you examine every step in the timeline of development, and interrogate which features of the land use review procedures and other agency reviews are contributing to delay, uncertainty, and cost at each step,” said Professor Been, in her written testimony. Read the full testimony here.

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People aren't "hanging out" as much outdoors during the workday in the center city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Applying modern artificial intelligence techniques to old video footage, the researchers compared pedestrian activity in 1980 and 2010 across prominent locations in Boston, New York City and Philadelphia. At each site, pedestrians walked faster in 2010 than they had in 1980, by an average of 15%.

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Southern California Wildfire Response: How City Leaders Can Help

NLC (National League of Cities)

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