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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)

To that end, they turned to lobbying and advocacy to fend off any possible profit-reducing limitations that Congress might impose on them. 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. [12]

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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

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Or is it just a case, in a highly politicized industry, of a politically convenient advocacy rationale to justify not increasing G-fees? During much of conservatorship (specifically 2012 to 2019), strangely, capital was depleted by design. But is this argument valid? Also, the 0.10 6] It was officially adopted in 2017. [7] Also, the 0.10

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A rundown on the whistleblowing process in the federal government

Partnership for Public Service

Led by Jenny Mattingley, the Partnerships vice president of government affairs, the session welcomed Dana Gold from the Government Accountability Project and Joe Spielberger of the Project on Government Oversight. It’s a crucial mechanism for government accountability. What is whistleblowing?

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

2, 2012, in Houston. She was a leading member of the area transit advocacy group, LINK Houston. For example, " Making bus service sexy and more equitable " (2012) discusses how investment in bus systems, network breadth and depth, and streetcars is a benefit for the transit dependent. 9, in Houston.