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Why another shutdown would be bad for the U.S. military

Partnership for Public Service

22, 2018, until Jan. During the 2018-2019 shutdown, 42,000 members of the Coast Guard worked without pay —a first for active-duty service members—because the Department of Homeland Security’s appropriation lapsed. Food insecurity is already a serious issue for service members, with a 2021 DOD survey of U.S.

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AWS investment in South Africa results in economic ripple effect

AWS Public Sector Blog

Fast forward to 2018, when AWS announced plans to launch data center infrastructure in the country. AWS’s investment in South Africa from 2018-2022 has contributed ZAR 12 billion in gross domestic product (GDP), while supporting an estimated average of 5,700 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs locally on an average annual basis.

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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco ," 2023 -- " A wrinkle on BTMFBA: let the city/county own the cultural facility, while you operate it (San Francisco and the Fillmore Heritage Center) ," 2021 -- " BTMFBA: Baltimore and the Area 405 Studio ," 2021 -- " BTMFBA: the best way to ward off artist or retail displacement is to buy the building ," (..)

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Why Fugaku, Japan’s fastest supercomputer, went virtual on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since its completion and the start of full-scale operations in March 2021, Fugaku has been used by numerous fields in response to social needs. In April 2018, he was appointed as the director of R-CCS, where he oversaw the supercomputer’s development. We can’t talk about Fugaku without talking about Dr. Matsuoka.

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Episode 64: Bridging the Racial Wealth Divide with NCRC’s Community Development Fund

CRA Today

Its new lending platform, for which it is also building an algorithm to determine loan eligibility – stands to make the roughly 10-person operation more efficient, Marisa Calderon, NCRC CDF’s executive director, said in a recent interview.

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New form of BTMFBA in San Francisco

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And it starts with decent cultural planning: -- " Revisiting stories: cultural planning and the need for arts-based community development corporations as real estate operators ," 2018 The preeminent example is SEMAEST of Paris, although it deals primarily with retail uses. No reason the model can't be extended to arts and culture.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing is the highest monthly bill typical Americans face, reaching an average of $1674 a month in 2021. Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018).

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