#Budgets

1/ The people who end up in charge are often the wrong people. Conservation is hard, it's complicated, it's depressing, it can feel pointless or impossible, it's underfunded and underpaid,
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Facebook may now be broken up from Instagram and WhatsApp by the FTC. What does it mean for brands and advertising: (context from my blog on this: https://www.thesocialmediareport.org/p/and-so-it-begins-fts-requests-breakup) 1/6 Instagram
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For those trying to understand the LA city budget, I’m sharing here what I have learned along with resources to learn more. First, the budget process. The Mayor’s Office creates
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I took part in a call this morning with Commissioner John Harrington, about last night's terrible law enforcement response to the protest on I-94.He made clear that the call to
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Questions I have on our healthcare crisis @HSELive @roinnslainte @DonnellyStephen @SusanMitchell_ 1/ Ill admit I have questions. Questions wondering how it can be that our health service isn’t what our
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New Analysis - Many state and local governments need help. But it's hard to make the case for $510 billion of support in the House hill.http://www.crfb.org/blogs/state-and-local-governments-do-not-need-half-trillion-covid-relief (@Budge
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A lot of the analysis of whether or not "defund the police" messaging was effective seems to overlook any discussion of the number of municipalities that have diverted $ from
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No, this whole thing is a mess. Idaho received a fraction of what the federal government initially told us we would get and even if their revised number. The government
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1/ @NancySkinnerCA Here's a $10b solution for hard-pressed CA cities:https://twitter.com/NancySkinnerCA/status/1341064141969051648 2/ End platinum insurance subsidies for retired police, prison guards and other public employees. CA is t
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Property tax update: Senate Local Gov. is preparing to hear SB 1108 this PM which would cap city/county budgets + restrict revenue sources for new construction. What does this actually
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10 money myths that are keeping you Broke. Thread Being broke is not a life sentence.The reason you're broke boils down to one main idea You spend more money
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Just wanted to clear something up as I have received a lot of messages on the subject of other teams pitches as well as having seen a lot of other
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on why annual test scores this year are important to researchers and not necessarily practitioners. No judgment, just an explainer. First, longitudinal data systems have been built at great cost,
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So a thought on #CrossingGate for council officers. Unless you have a budget and authority to progress a resident request, refer the public to councillors. They are elected to make
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You know an interesting thing I think alot about? How so much of economic justice organizing is built around the scarcity model. We talk about hating that model, but the
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Another day, another @DanielAndrewsMP attack article. With the attacks on Hotel Quarantine only growing Dan's popularity, it seems #MSM is trying a new approach. A thread #auspol #springst #ThisIsNotJournalism https://www.theage.com.au/
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