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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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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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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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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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What Was Wrong with the Washington DC Streetcar

Human Transit

At the major urbanist conferences between 2000 and 2010, few people were saying the obvious things I was saying, namely: The permanence of a service lies not in rails in the street, but in the permanent justification of the operating subsidy. This , one of my first really viral pieces from 2009, captures how I was talking back then.

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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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DO LEGISLATURES UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF MANAGEMENT?

Barrett & Greene

For about fourteen years, ending in 2010, we helped create and devoted ourselves to some