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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems. Step 2: Separate planning from budgeting. And absolutely that it is a key issue. The best time to ask for regularized funding is when you're successful. Step 3: Fix the Funding.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Unlike the local and state jurisdictions that fund Metro, federal money goes only to the agency’s capital budget but not to its separate operating budget — a distinction local officials have long said is inequitable. Good luck with that. The director then, Mark R. But it is also a management failure of local government.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In response to that growing criticism plus how much has changed in markets, legislation, and regulation during the 90-plus years of the FHLBanks’ existence, its regulator – the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – announced in 2022 that it would undertake a review of the entire System. billion for fiscal 2024.

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The impact of the worldwide recession on the tech industry 

Open Access Government - Technology News

It’s not as bad as 2008. According to the Gartner Worldwide Labour Market Survey, which was released in the first quarter of 2022, rising labour costs are raising the cost of technology services, which will result in a $1.3 trillion rise in global spending on IT services by 2023.

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

Collaborating with the Florida League of Cities (FLC), we endeavored to provide a simple and practical revenue forecasting strategy to help cities in Florida plan and prepare for the potential impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic on their budgets. His scholarship focuses on state and local public finance, budgeting and financial management.

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On Demand Webinar from UNC’s Tax Center on State Response to the Pandemic

Death and Taxes

Here is the description of the webinar: The economic disruption of COVID-19 will substantially affect state budgets in coming fiscal years, with an estimated $275 billion in revenue losses through fiscal June 2022. It will feature a panel of expert academics and practitioners to explore: The current and future status of state budgets.

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Leaving Academia With Dr. Julie Ann Ward, Dr. Stephanie Weaver, and Dr. Krista Kurlinkus

Grant Writing Made Easy

I started my PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, in one of the more prestigious programs in my field, in 2008. When I got my job in 2014, there were 208 tenure-track Spanish positions advertised ; in 2022 there were only 44. So in Spring 2022, I decided to leave my academic job at the end of the semester.