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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Guardian has many stories based on the leaked documents. -- " The Uber Files ". And they did this at the expense of the success of public transit as well as adding to traffic and congestion even while arguing they did the opposite.

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A Study of Low-Income Communities and School-to-Prison Pipelines

The Lowe Down

18% of black boys and 10% of black girls received an out-of-school suspension in 2013-14, compared to only 5% of white boys and 2% of white girls, the U.S. Socioeconomic status is one of the most well-documented correlates with juvenile delinquency. Department of Education reports.

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

In the past couple years, several rigorous studies have documented the growth of these nonprofit funding groups, across numerous service delivery areas. What’s more, they are not sporadic or limited to a single service area; they span every service function and level of government. References. LeRoux, Kelly.

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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)

Through 2013, the fee moved up strongly as part of the FHFA’s push to raise the cost of GSE mortgages in an attempt to “crowd in” more private market capital into mortgage lending. 2] For an explanation of why it is so closely watched, see the Addendum at the end of this document. [3] Excluding the $0.4 Also, the 0.10

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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

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). A study by Vragara et al.,