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

The Lowe Down

Figure 1 displays the growth in business applications in each state from 2012-2020, where one can observe the varying growth in business applications across the United States. From 2012 to 2020, Wyoming and Mississippi had the largest annual growth in new business applications while North Dakota and Kansas had the lowest. p-value).

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Janelle Wong: AAPI and Anti-Asian Violence & Discrimination

Policy Chats

From 2001-2012, Wong was in the Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Hate crime legislation alone is not going to solve our problems. ” - Janelle Wong on the topic of focusing on more than hate crime when discussing ways to help the AAPI community.

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AAPI: Anti-Asian Violence & Discrimination (with Janelle Wong)

Policy Chats

From 2001-2012, Wong was in the Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Hate crime legislation alone is not going to solve our problems. ” - Janelle Wong on the topic of focusing on more than hate crime when discussing ways to help the AAPI community.

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AAPI: Anti-Asian Violence & Discrimination (with Janelle Wong)

Policy Chats

From 2001-2012, Wong was in the Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Hate crime legislation alone is not going to solve our problems. ”. Hate crime legislation alone is not going to solve our problems. ”.

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New Report on Ten Years of Land Banking in New York Offers Compelling Metrics of Success, Useful Lessons, and a Lot of Inspiration

Center for Community Progress

Like in many states, a mix of ineffective laws, partisan divisions, and the allure of maintaining the status quo made reforming this local process difficult. Then, I heard that New York was exploring legislation to allow municipalities and counties to create land banks. What the heck is a land bank ?”

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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Only the General Assembly is authorized to create property tax exemptions, and when that legislative body creates exemptions they must apply uniformly across the state. That question is one of policy, not law, and the School of Government is neutral on issues of policy. See this blog post for more on local acts.)

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Federalism and the Detroit Bankruptcy Case

Public Policy Blog

Scott Bomboy of the Constitution Center mentions that “the concept of nullification–that states can overrule federal laws–predated the Civil War by decades, and the ultimate issue of nullification (secession) was settled in the 1860s. 1257 courtesy of Cornell Law Institute). If that law is federal, then the U.S. 482, 488 (1976).

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