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climate

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Six ways states could help cities and towns implement climate solutions

Cities, towns and regions are creating jobs, improving health and making communities more livable. Many of them are doing so as part of their strategy to address climate change. This is an approach called “multisolving,” and examples of it are becoming more common. Case in point: Home weatherization programs reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide […]

health care

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How states are taking back their health care purchasing power to drive innovation

For the past decade or more, discussion around alternative payment models, value-based health plan benefits, and high costs of care has tended to focus on federal policy solutions and private negotiations between private health plans and providers. However, often overlooked in these conversations is the role states play in driving innovation. The fee-for-service chassis is […]

network

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What networks need from municipal and county leaders

From collective impact to collaborative cities, many communities urge local organizations to coordinate their programs or services. These communities are further encouraged by federal agencies that increasingly call for network approaches to social concerns in education and health. After the success of the federally funded Area Agencies on Aging, other federal agencies offered their own […]

HHS data

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Transforming your HHS agency into a data-first organization

Data is increasingly important to government agencies, and smart data management is more and more central to effective agency operations. Yet no organizations count on data more fundamentally than state and local health and human services (HHS) agencies. There are two reasons for this data dependence. First, agencies often rely on federal funding. They need […]

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Balancing pre- and post-COVID municipal planning strategies

The pandemic is the biggest challenge to face municipal planners in living memory. Even in the rosiest of times, keeping a municipality running effectively and meeting a community’s needs requires careful planning and diligent execution. Now, with the added stresses and dangers of COVID, that work has become exponentially harder. Although municipal planning has become […]

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Global sustainability network helps local governments share green procurement practices

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is a large global network of local cities, counties and other regional or public agencies devoted to solving the world’s sustainability challenges. The group offers standards, tools and programs that can help communities reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve lives and livelihoods and protect natural resources. The group has local […]

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States can reduce the cost of tax compliance for businesses with uniformity and tech

Whether it is changing consumer behavior or the 2018 Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc., sales tax compliance has become increasingly complex for businesses in the last few years. All 45 states with sales tax require remote sellers to collect sales tax, while at the same time, ecommerce sales have skyrocketed—reaching $861.12 […]

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How housing tech can unlock opportunity for community stakeholders

We’re in the midst of an affordable housing crisis that has only intensified at the start of the pandemic. Consider this: housing is a basic human need but finding affordable housing options, especially in popular cities throughout the U.S., has become increasingly difficult. In fact, nearly half of the 43 million renter households in the […]

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State and local governments will be prime cyber targets in 2022: How to stay protected

Cybersecurity in 2021 was defined by a significant increase in high-profile attacks that affected all levels of government, from federal to state and local. As recently as December 2021, cyberattacks on state and local government’s key networks continue to occur. The recent string of malicious and dangerous attacks demonstrates an active threat to the critical […]

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Assessing cyber readiness—Where to begin?

Cities and counties are about to partake in the nation’s first and largest cybersecurity funding program to help local governments. President Biden’s infrastructure spending bill signed into law in late 2021 focuses on improving cybersecurity by creating a grant program with $1 billion of funding through fiscal year 2025 designed to enhance jurisdictions’ security postures. […]

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