Posts Tagged ‘
recession ’
Feb 1st, 2013 |
By Sarah Sibley
Nashville’s CFO describes how a combination of tax increases, budget cuts, and infrastructure investments has kept the city thriving
Posted in Policy in Practice , Urban Affairs |
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Tags: City Services , education , Employee Benefits , FEMA , Healthcare , Law Enforcement , Municipal CFO Series , Nashville , pensions , Property Taxes , public safety , recession , Richard Riebeling , stimulus , tax policy , Tennessee
Jan 24th, 2013 |
By Whitney Pickels
Education gaps – the differences between cities’ supply and demand for educated workers – may explain differences in economic recovery and provide cues for future policy interventions.
Posted in Labor & Finance , Research in Brief , Urban Affairs |
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Tags: Brookings Institution , college degrees , educated workforce , Education Gap , housing prices , industry , recession , recovery , stimulus , unemployment rate , US metro areas , workers
Jan 18th, 2013 |
By Emily L. Modlin
Washington D.C.’s CFO discusses how the District regained its AAA status and moved from deficit to surplus
Posted in Labor & Finance , Policy in Practice , Urban Affairs |
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Tags: capital funds , CFO , deficit , District of Columbia , federal government , income tax bonds , Mayor Adrian M. Fenty , Mayor Tony Williams , Municipal CFO Series , Natwar M. Gandhi , recession
May 2nd, 2012 |
By Frank Manzo IV
The former Obama economist on the path out of the recession, his ideal legislation, and why Europe is our biggest threat.
Posted in Labor & Finance , Policy in Practice |
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Tags: Austan Goolsbee , European Union , macroeconomics , Obama , President Barack Obama , recession , recovery
Apr 20th, 2012 |
By Mike Sitkowski
U.S. metros, the nation’s exporters, are driving economic recovery.
Posted in Research in Brief , Urban Affairs |
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Tags: Antonio R. Villaraigosa , Cities , Conference of Mayors , Economy , Economy Recovery , Employment forecast , Exports , financial crisis , Global Insight , Great Recession , IHS Global Insight , Imports , Poverty , recession , trade , U.S. Conference of Mayors , unemployment , Urban , Urban Affairs , Urban growth
Mar 9th, 2012 |
By Nicholas Epstein
High gas prices popped the housing bubble.
Posted in Energy & Environment , Research in Brief |
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Tags: Chicago , Cities , David Zilberman , Gas prices , Great Recession , Homeownership , Household Expenditures , Housing , income inequality , JunJie Wu , recession , Steven Sexton , Suburbs , transportation , Urban , Urban Affairs
Mar 8th, 2012 |
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Meghann Moses discusses the issues workforce development is trying to address and why creating jobs is not enough to reduce chronic unemployment.
Posted in Policy in Practice , Urban Affairs |
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Tags: green jobs , inequality , Jobs , recession , unemployment , Urban , workforce development