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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. One example is legislative bill tracking, which is a basic and important Mercatus Center function.

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The role AWS is playing in Prosper Africa Tech initiatives

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Alliance brings together major players from US and African private sectors, government agencies, and civil society to focus on the strategic purpose of making digital trade flows easier, cheaper, and more efficient.

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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)

This translates into considerable clout in Congress and state legislatures. 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. million members – almost one percent of the entire U.S.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

These loans, without special treatment to increase their G-fees, would benefit from the low funding cost enjoyed by the GSEs due to their receiving government support to back their guarantees. However, it is very hard to argue from a public policy viewpoint that taxpayers should indeed be implicitly subsidizing those types of loans.