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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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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)

.” 15 In late April, reactions to the new GSE G-fee grids – which until then had been the object of discussion mainly within the industry and housing policy community – broke out into the realm of cable news, social media, and politics. This claim is simply untrue.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. We did this in 2008 or 2009. Do marketing -- harder as local media goes out of business, etc. I was involved in helping "to save" that area c.