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A Changing Workforce Makes DEIA a Priority at DHS

GovLoop

Already understaffed before the pandemic, state and local governments have seen dramatic drops in employment since 2020 — 68,000 state jobs lost and 627,000 at the local level. For instance, to assess its recruiting efforts, DHS has developed the Strategic Marketing Outreach and Recruitment Engagement tool. “It

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DC's 11th Street Bridge Park project

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I have discussed undergrounding/decking for North Capitol Street, the Southeast-Southwest Freeway, and parts of Connecticut Avenue in the core. -- " DC and "city repair" of the urban grid ," 2020 Freeway undergrounding and removal is a trendy move in urban planning these days (" Can Removing Highways Fix America's Cities? ," New York Times ).

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4 ways AWS can help with Medicaid unwinding

AWS Public Sector Blog

For nearly a year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has supported SMAs with in-house Medicaid expertise to identify unwinding issues and develop solutions to address them. The top four concerns that SMAs have shared are in approaching outreach and engagement, staffing shortages, returned mail, and reporting capabilities. Scenario 3.

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New Mexico delivers customer-obsessed human services programs powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Shanita Harrison is HSD’s customer innovation director, a role created in 2020. Then, with the time they saved managing numbers, they turned their attention to new outreach channels: chat, text, and email. After implementing their new contact center, they consolidated 150 phone numbers into two—one for customers, one for providers.

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How Virginia unleashed the power of data

AWS Public Sector Blog

Carlos leveraged multiple AWS services to help foster robust digital resilience by facilitating data sharing that helped agencies develop scalable solutions.” These two pilot programs led to creating a foundational data governance framework, established in January 2020, just in time for COVID.” We were also able to evolve and iterate.

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Concerts for Carers uses AWS Fargate, Amazon Aurora to deliver ticketing and events platform at any scale

AWS Public Sector Blog

Charitable organizations see spikes in activity as they respond to disasters, host seasonal events, and perform outreach to their donor base during fundraising appeals. The development team found Amazon ECS simple to understand and use, while the flexibility and serverless nature of Fargate compute provider was a perfect fit for the workload.

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Changing Narratives and Engaging Communities Toward Better Policy: New York City’s Low-Density Neighborhoods Event Recap

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

What’s more, the research finds that the lowest-density community districts added housing at only half the rate of the city overall between 2010 and 2020. Data analyzed by the Furman Center shows that the city’s lowest-density community districts take up 44.7 percent of the total land across the five boroughs but contain just 28.4