The pandemic and related economic disruptions have simultaneously fueled a labor shortage and a loss of jobs in the United States. Early in the pandemic, the labor force participation rate
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By Scott Cameron, Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, former Acting Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy, Management and Budget, and Senior Advisor at Cornea, Inc. Machine
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The IIJA is a $1.2T bipartisan funding measure that, while not explicitly written to address climate change, contains funding for renewable energy and resilient infrastructure improvements. It directs over $100B
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Treasury Finalizes Rules for the Use of State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF), part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) This week, associations representing state, local, territorial, and
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In 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act temporarily expanded the Child Tax Credit (CTC). It increased the credit to $3,000 per child ($3,600 for children under age 6), expanded access
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In March 2021, the American Rescue Plan expanded the Child Tax Credit. The four main changes are: raising the maximum age to 17; increasing the dollar value of the benefit
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This is a repost from Brookings written by Jenny Schuetz, Tim Shaw, Katherine Lucas McKay, and Genevieve Melford. You can access the original piece here. Local elected officials have a lot on their
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This is a repost from the Brookings Institute, written by John D. Ratliff. Read the original article here. Download the full report here. Federal, state, and local policies profoundly affect
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This is a repost from the Urban Institute’s blog page, Urban Wire, written by Eric Burnstein and Amy Rogin. View the original piece here. Earlier this month, 16 years after
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This piece was written by Brock Long and Steve Hagerty for Homeland Security Today. Access the original article here. The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created nearly
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Mark Funkhouser is president of Funkhouser & Associates, LLC, an independent consulting firm and is also a NAPA Fellow. Communities across the country are intensifying their conversations about the status
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Beverly Cigler is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Public Policy and Administration at the Pennsylvania State University and an Academy Fellow. This blog post an excerpt of an article used
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