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Regulations carving out a path for new businesses? They may be less important than you think.

The Lowe Down

The business applications include requests for Employer Identification Numbers and other documents associated with starting a business, so this metric is a proxy for overall businesses opening in a given state. . FIGURE 1: 2012-2020 Business Application Compound Annual Growth Rates by State.

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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

124,000 files from Uber were leaked to the Guardian and they found that " Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals." Guardian has many stories based on the leaked documents. -- " The Uber Files ".

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A Study of Low-Income Communities and School-to-Prison Pipelines

The Lowe Down

Socioeconomic status is one of the most well-documented correlates with juvenile delinquency. Black students, representing only 16% of student enrollment, make up 27% of students referred to law enforcement and 31% of students subjected to school-related arrests.

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So, Your Jurisdiction is Thinking of Starting a Revenue Manual…

Death and Taxes

It is the most revealing document about what a government values. While it may not be as revealing of a document as the budget, it is still critical. It, like your budget, is a technical document. What are the laws that govern motor vehicle taxes in North Carolina? Laws authorizing use. Trick question!

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Vision Zero initiatives on the decline: Cache County Utah shows another way

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The planning documents, Safe Streets for All Action Plan and Safety Data Analysis in particular, have a lot of great graphics communicating information in various ways about where crashes occur, demographics, etc., CMPO’s 2024 Safety Summit will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in the Community Room of the Logan Library on May 16.

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A rundown on the whistleblowing process in the federal government

Partnership for Public Service

The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, amended by the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 , protects certain civil servants in the executive branch who report waste, fraud or abuse from retaliation or other abuses of authority. Documenting any adverse actions taken after reporting is absolutely crucial.

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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

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. Social Media in the United States. Sustainability Factors or Lack Thereof.