Next City

JANUARY 16, 2025

In August 2024, New York City's community development luminary Hester Street announced that it was sunsetting after more than two decades. What went wrong?

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Community Development Development 140

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JANUARY 16, 2025

Investing in holistic employee health can create almost $12 trillion in global economic value.

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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

JANUARY 16, 2025

Homelessness in the U.S. reached a record high in 2024, according to a new annual point-in-time count released in December by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). More than 770,000 people experienced homelessness on a single night.

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Housing Development 82

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JANUARY 16, 2025

Yes, the changing geopolitical reality presents new risksbut like all disruptions, it may also create new opportunities. Heres how.

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Get this municipal maintenance guide that provides municipalities with a detailed and structured approach to maintaining city infrastructure. This guide outlines systematic inspection procedures and best practices, ensuring the safety, longevity, and operational efficiency of municipal assets. From roadways and bridges to public buildings and utilities, the guide covers all aspects of municipal maintenance.

Public Safety

State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2025

Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting data recovery systems in ransomware attacks. State and local governments must be prepared, and an immutable backup is a vital component. Immutable backups are air-gapped, unalterable copies of files and data. Ideally, they are impervious to hackers and totally inaccessible until called up, maintaining a pristine state.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JANUARY 16, 2025

The CIO for Verizon Consumer and Business Group reveals the transformational changes that mattered so IT could adapt and innovate.

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Leadership 57

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JANUARY 16, 2025

For North American downstream oil refineries, now is the time to improve value chain optimization through focused, management-led transformation efforts that could drive margin improvements.

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Management 52

FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2025

Federal civilian agencies understand that artificial intelligence will be increasingly useful in streamlining and automating complex workloads. They hope to use data-driven insights to enhance decision-making and address thorny problems. The Government Accountability Office reported that 20 of 23 agencies surveyed have about 1,200 current and planned AI cases specific challenges or opportunities that AI may solve.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JANUARY 16, 2025

As a physical transformation, the energy transition is still in the early stages. Progress is being made in some areas, but what challenges are holding us back?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 16, 2025

Confirmation hearings for Pam Bondi as the AG (" Pam Bondi Needs to Explain Whose Side Shes On ," Bloomberg , " Trumps Attorney General Pick Admits There Is an Enemy List After All ," New Republic , " The Perplexing Case of Pam Bondi ," New York Times ) from the first article: Its hard to imagine a more important role in the incoming presidential administration than that of attorney general.

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