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The Mercatus Center solves unstructured data challenges using generative AI from AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Accessible through an interactive AI assistant, the platform provides scalable, accurate, and no-cost access to a treasure trove of data, helping policymakers craft informed public policy that will positively impact peoples lives. Thats why the RAGs are really important from an academic and a policy perspective.

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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Going over budget is not an option. They have also observed that university programs that focus on public policy and statistics often teach R programming, so using R helps new graduates get up to speed quickly. They encourage and support novel applications for public policy research.

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

Understanding Proposal Budgets a. Budget Preparation and Review b. Key Budgeting Concepts VI. Funders have different budgets, funding priorities, and missions. The larger the grant amount, the more likely you’ll need to seek government funding : If you are seeking a grant of $100K or more (e.g., RETURN TO OUTLINE.

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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)

One of the main reasons for this approach is that GSE borrowings to fund loans don’t directly show up as federal government indebtedness. 7 Additionally, GSE subsidies and privileges are crafted to largely avoid showing up as a federal budget expenditure, thus avoiding competing with other priorities for scarce tax dollars.

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The government agencies that dominate mortgage finance 16 currently require a credit report from each of the three major credit reporting bureaus, 17 known as a “tri-merge” report. 15 Credit reports. Additionally, they are not represented by a single industry association to maximize clout, but by several.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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.