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Is the public safety department model the future of municipal emergency service?

American City & Country

The undeniable fiscal constraints associated with local governance has challenged contemporary public administrators to achieve more with less. Budgets are stretched thin, and local government managers face increasingly complex service delivery demands from an electorate that loathes the idea of paying higher taxes.

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The Heavy Lift to Implement GSE Reform-Recap-Release Part 1: The Necessary Background

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

1] The two government-sponsored entities (GSEs) have been in conservatorship for over 16 years, and the last significant action aimed at their exit occurred in 2019, during the first Trump administration (Trump I), when they were authorized to start retaining profits in order to build capital. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). [8]