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Economic Recovery
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Boosting Investment to Build Up Neighborhoods, 8-6-20
Reckoning with the Pandemic City Budget Crunch
A Review of the Racial Wealth Gap Since COVID-19 Live Session Recording
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Opportunity to Impact: An Investment Assessment
National League of Cities: City Fiscal Conditions 2020
A Review of the Racial Wealth Gap Since COVID-19 presentation
COVID-19
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COVID-19 Situation Report: March 23 webinar with Dr. Joshua Sharfstein
Connect and Discuss – Policy Forum Open Session 4-3-20
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National Digital Inclusion Alliance COVID-19 Resources
Next Century Cities – city examples
Key Concepts for Measuring Impact of the Coronavirus in Your Community
Food Insecurity
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Ingredients of a successful practitioner-researcher partnership
Bonus Session: Public Charge Rule
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What’s in a partnership? Ingredients of a practitioner-researcher relationship in Baltimore
Linking food and transportation: Takeaways from the December 2019 Policy Forum Live Session
Food System Resilience in Baltimore: Findings from the Food System Resilience Advisory Report
Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) public charge overview
COVID-19 Response and Recovery Series: Food Insecurity and COVID-19
GovEx Data Points Podcast Episode: Food System Resilience during COVID-19
Links shared by participants during the session:
Workforce Development
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Building a path: A conversation about engaging disconnected youth
Role of Human Resources in Occupational Mobility – Nov 16 2020 Live Session
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Guide to choosing policies to help this population in your own community
Case Study: DC’s ReEngagement Center
Measure of America Youth Disconnection
Four takeaways on engaging disconnected youth: From the November 2019 Policy Forum Live Session
Measuring Your City
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Measuring Equity: A Conversation with Pittsburgh and Seattle
Think Global, Act Local: Measuring Up to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Demographic Disparities and Coronavirus
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Getting started measuring equity: Understanding bias in your government agency
Get to know our Economic Mobility Policy Fellows
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Get to know our Economic Mobility Policy Fellows
Introducing Policy Fellows Deanna Belleny and Robbyn Lewis
A Year in Review: The Policy Forum in a Revolutionary Moment
Readings about the first year of the Economic Mobility Policy Forum
One goal, many forms: How economic mobility researchers are putting knowledge into practice
Housing and Homelessness
Questioning Common Sense
Federal Policy and Poverty
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Promising Strategies for Reducing Poverty
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Welfare Money Is Paying for a Lot of Things Besides Welfare in The Atlantic by Dr. Zach Parolin
National Academy of Sciences: A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty
Self-Guided Courses
Your membership in the Policy Forum gives you access to online courses provided by our partners at GovEx Academy in data management, performance analytics and related topics.
Guidance for Using Data
Please see resources linked below from our partners at GovEx for guidance for using data.
- Visit our partner GovEx to learn more about foundational practices
- Data Analysis Checklist
- Data Inventory Guide
- Data Ownership and Usage Terms for Government Contracts
- Identifying Issues in Data Quality
- Open Data Getting Started Guide
- Open Data Metadata Guide
- Open Data Portal Requirements
- Open Data Standards Directory
- Performance Management Getting Started Guide
- Asking the Right Questions
- Responding to Open Data Concerns
- Setting Performance Targets: Getting Started Guide
- What is Benchmarking?
- What Is Data Science?