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

AWS Public Sector Blog

They often rely on donor and grant funding, so they have to justify every expense to their constituents. To expand their reach, they often collaborate with academia and other nonprofits, and they engage early-career talent. They encourage and support novel applications for public policy research.

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Kevin Esterling: 2020 Election Analysis Part 2

Policy Chats

In this episode, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Kevin Esterling talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about utilizing technology to bridge the gap between constituents and representatives as well as rifts in the Democratic Party following this election.

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2020 Election: Analysis Part 2 (with Kevin Esterling)

Policy Chats

In this episode, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Kevin Esterling talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about utilizing technology to bridge the gap between constituents and representatives as well as rifts in the Democratic Party following this election.

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2020 Election: Analysis Part 2 (with Kevin Esterling)

Policy Chats

In this episode, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Kevin Esterling talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about utilizing technology to bridge the gap between constituents and representatives as well as rifts in the Democratic Party following this election.

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How Communities Are Using Data to Address Inequities

GovLoop

The concept of evidence-based policymaking — the idea that policies should be developed and refined based on hard data, not just hunches — can play a critical role in helping state and local agencies identify and mitigate systemic issues that undermine government’s ability to serve all constituents. The result?

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A People-Centered Approach to Problem-Solving

GovLoop

Tara Dawson McGuinness describes her work as sitting at the intersection of policy creation, implementation, and citizen and community voices. McGuinness works at New America, a public policy think tank, where she founded the New Practice Lab, a research and design lab focused on family economic security. The common thread?

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

taxpaying public. 12 This means that the taxpayers are now officially (again, using FHFA calculations) earning a sub-standard return on their investment, providing what amounts to a large, hidden, and never-congressionally-approved economic subsidy to the GSEs, 13 which is not good public policy. billion loss equals 70.9