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How Politics Wastes Tax Dollars in Tax Incentives

Barrett & Greene

And yet, many elected officials seem addicted to the pleasure of issuing press releases and giving speeches that claim to the public that the latest big economic development coup has come to pass because of their clever use of tax breaks.

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THE ACADEMIC-GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS GAP

Barrett & Greene

How many of you are pursuing or have something on your research agenda that you think has implications for public policy?” Witness her experience in a recent meeting with about 100 faculty members and doctoral students. Everybody raised their hand.

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Community Progress Welcomes 2022 Community Revitalization Fellows from New York, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico

Center for Community Progress

Their specialties include urban planning, public policy, landscape design, permaculture, and sustainable land stewardship advocacy. Grounded Strategies serves the underserved communities reclaiming vacant and underutilized land to improve socioeconomic and environmental health.

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CRA Podcast Episodes

CRA Today

She holds a master’s in public policy from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.A. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Press Release, Comptroller of the Currency Joseph M. Prior to her work with BOI, Ms. Klein led CFED’s work in microenterprise development. in economics from Boston College.

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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.