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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Work First (TANF) , which provides direct cash assistance as well as assistance with childcare, transportation, job searches, and job training for eligible families who need help achieving self-sufficiency through employment. What types of social services programs is a county mandated to administer or provide?

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How public sector organizations use AWS to build sustainability solutions

AWS Public Sector Blog

We are able to take the large blocks of energy generated in one part of Brazil and transport it to another place that needs it. With this new architecture, the agency also created their own statistical and machine learning (ML) models as well as visualization panels, democratizing access to energy data. “We

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Breaking from the binary: Enhancing gender and pronoun inclusivity in federal programs

Partnership for Public Service

In 2016, James Shupe (formerly Jamie*) successfully petitioned an Oregon circuit court to become the first person to legally identify as nonbinary in the United States. The Department of State introduced a third gender marker , X, on the U.S. passport application.