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ReportsIssue Brief: 2025 State Workers’ Rights Roundup , NYU Wagner Labor Initiative, October 30, 2025. Issue Brief: How State and Local Government Can Support Workers’ Right to Form and Join Unions , NYU Wagner Labor Initative, April 22, 2025. Quick Fixes to …
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Dean Sherry Glied delivers testimony at House Ways and Means health subcommittee hearingOn June 6, Sherry Glied, Dean and Professor of Public Service , provided expert testimony before the US House Ways and Means subcommittee on health about the challenges facing America's healthcare system, and whether Consumer-Directed Health Plans …
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How Social Media Moves New York: Twitter Use by Transportation Providers in the New York RegionSocial media networks are valuable tools for the public outreach needs of transportation providers: they are free, instantaneous, reach large numbers of people simultaneously, and allow for sideline discussions. When transportation providers are trying to …
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NYC Mayoral Candidates Participate in Forum at NYU Wagner, Hosted by Student Organizations and Jones Consulting & Strategy GroupOn Thursday, March 20, New York City mayoral candidates Michael Blake and Senator Jessica Ramos participated in an open forum at NYU Wagner, hosted by Wagner’s Black Student Association (BSA), Wagner City Government, the Urban Planning Student …
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Six-Part Series Online Explores Need To Reform the Federal Government In an original six-part series for The Brookings Institution that began on Wednesday, September 23, Paul C. Light, the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, makes the …
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NYU Wagner Dean Sherry Glied Named as One of New York's "Exceptional Women"City & State media company’s annual Above & Beyond Award recognizes exceptional women – including, at this year's ceremony, none other than NYU Wagner Dean and Professor Sherry Glied . The honorees were celebrated at the Manhattan Center Grand Ballroom on …
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Event Recap: ChatGPT for Job Seekers: The Right Way to Use AI to Accelerate Your SearchWritten by Monica Martinez (MUP 2026) On February 4, 2025, NYU Wagner’s Office of Career Services hosted Jeremy Schifeling for a student-focused informational session on using AI and ChatGPT in the job search process. Schifeling is a former hiring …
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High Performance Government: Structure, Leadership, IncentivesFixing problems in the federal government. In 2003, the National Commission on the Public Service, chaired by Paul Volcker, issued a report detailing problems within the federal government today and recommending changes in its organization, leadership, …
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Alina Simone (MPA-PNP 2005) Named Guggenheim Fellow in Foundation’s Historic 100th ClassIn a landmark year celebrating the 100th anniversary of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, Alina Simone (MPA-PNP 2005) has been honored as a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in the Film-Video category. The Guggenheim Fellowship, awarded annually by the John …
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Feasibility Analysis of Converting Nursing Home Beds into an Assisted Living ProgramBon Secours Schervier Nursing Care Center is a highly skilled nursing home with 364 beds. Located in Riverdale, Bronx, the facility cares for geriatric residents from the surrounding New York City area. The New York State Department of Health has …
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Strategic PlanningThe Bronx Community Health Network (BCHN) is a federally qualified health center that sponsors fifteen community and school-based health centers. Since BCHN’s last strategic planning effort in 2007, the organization expanded their network of centers and …
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NYU Wagner Alumnus Ignacio Aravena Awarded Chilean Congress Merit MedalFor his role in the passage of crucial changes to a law aimed at reforming Chile’s building permits system, NYU Wagner alumnus Ignacio Aravena (MUP 2020) was awarded a Congress Merit Medal by Chilean Congressman Fuenzalida. Aravena assisted congress …
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City & State Names NYU Wagner Student and Three Graduates as "Rising Stars" in NYCThree NYU Wagner alumni and one current student have been named to City & State's "NYC 40 under 40 Rising Stars" honor roll for 2016. They are: Andrew Brent , Vice President, Head of Communications, Brookfield Property Partners (MPA 2004) ; Christian …
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Inequalities in hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in New York City before and after the affordable care actThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law by U.S. President Obama in 2010 and fully implemented in 2014. The ACA expanded health insurance by expanding the Medicaid program, creating health insurance exchanges (now called …
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Jump-Starting Collaboration: The ABCD Initiative and the Provision of Child Development Services through Medicaid and CollaboratorsMany policy problems require governmental leaders to forge vast networks beyond their own hierarchical institutions. This essay explores the challenges of implementation in a networked institutional setting and incentives to induce coordination between …
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Power Reduces the Press of the Situation: Implications for Creativity, Conformity, and DissonanceAlthough power is often conceptualized as the capacity to influence others, the current research explores whether power psychologically protects people from influence. In contrast to classic social psychological research demonstrating the strength of the …
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Power Reduces the Press of the Situation: Implications for Creativity, Conformity, and DissonanceAlthough power is often conceptualized as the capacity to influence others, the current research explores whether power psychologically protects people from influence. In contrast to classic social psychological research demonstrating the strength of the …
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Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting: Concepts and PracticesGovernment and Not-for-Profit Accounting highlights the dynamic nature and constant evolution of the field and the intellectual challenges it presents. Designed to assist both preparers and potential users of financial reports, this book emphasizes …
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From self-sufficiency to personal and family sustainability: A new paradigm for social policyCurrent social policy that affects welfare recipients focuses on the concept of "self-sufficiency" where leaving welfare for work is the goal. While this approach has reduced welfare rolls, it has not necessarily helped low-income people improve their …
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Examining Metropolitan Governance and Finance in Cairo and ManilaThe Lincoln Institute of Land Policy provides a nonpartisan forum for discussion of the use, regulation, and taxation of land and related issues. The Lincoln Institute engaged the Capstone team to develop case studies of Cairo and Manila in order to …
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Corporate Carbon Emissions: Recommendations for Increasing Disclosure and Evaluating the Changing Regulatory FrameworkThe Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is a nonprofit organization which holds the world's largest database of corporate climate change information in the world. The data is obtained from responses to CDP's annual Information Requests, issued on behalf of …
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Definition and Analysis of "Doing Business"The New York City Campaign Finance Board (CFB) is a nonpartisan, independent agency created in 1988 to administer the Campaign Finance Program, which limits the role of private money in City elections by providing qualifying campaigns with public matching …
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Increasing Patient Portal Usage and Identifying Best PracticesThe William F. Ryan Community Health Network is a family of nonprofit, federallyqualified health centers that deliver care to diverse, underserved communities. With stricter documentation regulations and increased requirements to use electronic health …
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A New Multilateralism in the 21st CenturyNYU Wagner Dean Ellen Schall served as moderator as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and former Chair of the Federal Reserve Paul Volcker gathered at New York University on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 …