Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 22, 2022

Although it started back in 1999 it really came to people’s consciousness back in 2017 with the WannaCry attack that impacted the NHS. A lot of the best practice recommendations are about protecting privileged accounts, protecting access to vital systems, that kind of thing. to ‘how should I do PAM?’. What is ransomware?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

In Part 1 of this series, it was estimated that total closing costs for both buyer and seller accounted for at least 7 to 11 percent of the purchase price of a typical home, surpassing the average 6 to 7 percent down payment made by first-time homebuyers (FTHBs). 14 A good glimpse of this occurred in New York State in 2017.

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Death and Taxes

MAY 26, 2022

cash, accounts receivable, and inventory) and current liabilities (e.g., accounts payable and notes payable) to ensure smooth operations. We test this hypothesis using a sample of all 159 counties in the state of Georgia from 2010 through 2017 and find this to be indeed the case. By Michelle Lofton and Mikhail Ivonchyk.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Since about 2017, we’ve seen a steady increase in the number of intentionally malicious components that are put into these repositories,” Fox said. A memo from the Office of Management and Budget (M-22-18) calls for agencies to enhance the security of the software supply chain through secure software development practices.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

As described in Part 1 of this three-part series, MH – a term which in this paper refers to the factory-produced structure that is later sited on a residential lot – accounts for approximately six percent of owner- and renter-occupied housing in the U.S., with a much greater market share of 14 percent in rural geographies.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

budget calculations but intentionally set things up so that the broader financial marketplace believed the government had an obligation to never let the two companies default on their debt; 15 this allowed the marketplace to largely ignore measures of GSE financial strength, in particular their capital ratios. Also, the 0.10 Also, the 0.10

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Death and Taxes

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It sounds like something they should probably not start right before budget season. When teaching MPA students I, somewhere in that first week or so, tell them that a public budget is an encyclopedia of government. the budget), a revenue manual is an encyclopedia of how government is financed. And to the back burner it goes.

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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 14, 2024

At the top of the list were Jay Fountain, then at the Governmental Accounting Standards Board; Harry Hatry, whose work with the Urban Institute and other organizations made him a giant in the field, and John Kamensky, who was then with the General Accounting Office (as the U.S. Government Accountability Office was known until 2004.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

DC's Muriel Bowser is one such example, but there are many others, including Houston, Salt Lake City, and in 2017, Seattle and Montreal. Gender budgeting. From the editorial: At its simplest, gender budgeting sets out to quantify how policies affect women and men differently (see article).

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JULY 22, 2021

About 60% of Americans liked the plan, and it is likely to be more popular still now that checks from the Child Tax Credit extended in it began hitting parents’ bank accounts on July 15. It also will move corporate taxation from the 21% established by the 2017 tax cut up to about 28%. (It It was 35% before the 2017 tax cut.).

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