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Frugal architecture in action: The Urban Institute innovates with R and Serverless on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

In a 2018 Medium post , Jessica Kelly, Urban’s senior director of research and web technology wrote, “Organizations like Urban often have many complex models in older programming languages that would be time-consuming to rewrite in a more ‘modern’ language (e.g., They encourage and support novel applications for public policy research.

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NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake, economic development hype | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates baseball team economics

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Interestingly, in 2018, feeling inadequately appreciated, the Penguins (hockey), Pirates (baseball), and Steelers (football) commissioned an economic impact not unlike the one performed for Salt Lake's NBA All Star Game. Most of the amusement tax (fee on tickets) go to the Pirates baseball team, not the city.

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

We started reviewing the revenue structures of all municipalities in Florida from 2008 to 2018, considering recession exerts different impacts on each revenue source. Hai (David) is an associate professor of public administration at the Department of Public Policy and Administration, Steven J. Authors’ Bios.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I made a presentation about this at the University of Delaware public policy school in early 2010, " Metropolitan Mass Transit Planning presentation " (link to presentation within). And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework ").

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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. Theodore joined First Western in April of 2019 as Director of Marketing. Prior to her work with BOI, Ms. Klein led CFED’s work in microenterprise development. in economics from Boston College. CRA Today and the CRA Hub.

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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)

5 From 2014 through 2019, however, the average G-fee increasingly became based upon a well-established financial markets concept: 6 to generate, after covering expenses, a proper market return (also known as the “cost of capital”) on the capital that is required to support the risks being taken in the business. taxpaying public.