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City of Joplin, MO Residents Engage with City Budget Survey to Rank Seven City Priorities

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

"Priority-based budgeting will allow city officials to regain control of the budget." - City Manager Sam Anselm The City of Joplin, Missouri is in their first year of the priority based budgeting process. This will help better manage the broad number of services we provide, while recognizing our budget constraints.”

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Shutdowns and continuing resolutions aren’t the answer of effective government

Partnership for Public Service

This funding typically makes up only approximately one-third of the federal budget, with a majority of spending going toward Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and mandatory programs that fall outside the purview of annual appropriations. The full House and Senate still need to consider and vote on these bills.

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A 21st-Century Education in Ohio Prisons

GovLoop

The security and user protections built into Chromebooks for K-12 education have been adapted for similar concerns with incarcerated students. The devices link to a specialized student wireless network and can’t be used outside it. “We

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Local Government Support for Privately Owned Affordable Housing

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

A local government therefore must exercise oversight of the budgets for construction and operation of the housing project to ensure that the public subsidy is going to LMI persons and not toward other activities of the third party. 153A-149, unless the same is first submitted to a vote of the people as therein provided.”

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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)

For example, the securities brokerage industry in 1975 was barred from setting prices as a cartel, as it long had; airline fares were deregulated by the government in 1978; and bank deposit interest rates underwent complete deregulation in phases from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. There seem to be three reasons for this exceptionalism.

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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

Residents of “late modern” society find themselves increasingly responsible for elements of life such as economic security, risk management, and identity maintenance that once were delivered by social institutions (Beck, 1999; Bennet, 1998). Simultaneously, broader social changes are also contributing to new activist forms.

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Women's History Month and urban planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of the strands from which the planning profession in the US was birthed was out of women-initiated "good government" and "good places" initiatives in a time when women still didn't have the right to vote. UCLA -- Transit Security: A Description of Problems and Countermeasures , FTA Restroom equity. Gender budgeting.