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Nationalization of banks came at the expense of local communities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Philadelphia Inquirer business columnist Joseph DiStefano has a piece, " How Philly lost its big banks, and a little survivor that’s grown in the vacuum ," about two books about the history of Philadelphia's banks, most of which have met similar fates to those of Detroit, St. But that story isn’t in this book; he plans a sequel.

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Fatigue in the Public Sector Workplace: Risks and Solutions

Barrett & Greene

Though issues of fatigue are gaining increased and merited attention in recent years, as far back as 2000, Dr. Bryan Vila authored a book called Tired Cops, written under a grant from the U.S. in 2010 to 35.6% One focused on their relationship with supervisors and the other was that they were not able to take enough days off.

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Lies, damn lies, and misleading data: bus service (DC Circulator)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

When I went to college there was a book "famous" in economics called Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics , about the manipulation of data. In reporting on transit ridership, I am bothered when they don't report ridership by bus line or day of the week, but "by the year." So they evade real scrutiny. That's crazy.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Second, it’s unreasonable to assume the design could work effectively through many decades of often unpredictable changes in markets, legislation, and regulation. 11] The history makes clear that the various GSEs often engage in lobbying and advocacy for favorable changes to legislation and regulation, potentially biasing the outcome.

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

How power can be utilized as a stalemate or “punishment” reads like a list ripped from an old high school year book or a future Mean Girls script. Measuring State House Speakers Formal Power 1981-2010. Women in the state legislative power structure: committee chairs. Social Science Quarterly , 77(4), 888-898.