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Inside a Civic Tech Hackathon Weekend
A civic tech hackathon turns open government data into weekend prototypes. Two federal records show the engine and the stall point: the demo ends, and nobody owns maintenance.
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Economic Indicators Explained: How to Read an Economic Indicator Correctly
An indicator is an estimate with an error bar and a revision schedule. Coverage, confidence intervals, vintage, and seasonal adjustment decide whether a headline means anything.
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Digital Government Services Checklist: Is Your City Hall Digital-Ready? A Checklist
A practical audit readers can run on municipal online services, from permits to records requests.
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Healthcare Reform Explained — Healthcare Cost Reform: The Terms That Matter
Surprise billing, price transparency, and drug pricing each run on a different mechanism. Knowing which term does what tells you which reform can actually move a bill.
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How to Read a Policy Proposal Like an Analyst
Funding, enforcement, and trade-offs: the three questions that tell you what a bill would actually do.
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How to Analyze a Company Before You Commit Time to It
A plain framework for judging a firm's fundamentals, moat, and management — built on evidence, not enthusiasm.
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The Attention Economy: What McCourt Researchers Found in Three Elections
A new book from Georgetown's McCourt School tests the oldest rule of campaign politics — attention wins — against data from 2016, 2020 and 2024.