#publicpolicy — Public Fediverse posts

Broad tax reform belongs at the centre of Canada’s growth agenda
#Canada #Economy #TaxReform #EconomicGrowth #Productivity #Investment #EconomicResilience #PublicPolicy #Politics #TaxPolicy #Taxes #CRA #FiscalPolicy #The14Media
https://the-14.com/broad-tax-reform-belongs-at-the-centre-of-canadas-growth-agenda/

https://www.europesays.com/ch/129944/ No-frills city budget presented to Geneva councilors | News #Budget #Economy #Geneva #GovernmentFinances #payments #PoliticalEconomy #PublicEconomics #PublicFinance #PublicPolicy #tax

RE: https://mas.to/@thecontinent/117253179327056947

'In response to Namibia’s refusal to share its national health data, the United States will stop funding its HIV-response programme from 2027'

There's a lot of interesting material in this issue but I'm curious how many folks might believe that the Australian Gvt are not under the same pressure to surrender protected datasets on Australian populations (albeit with a different set of coercions)

#ausPol #publicPolicy

What Can Brazil Learn from Global Cybersecurity Regulation?

This is the second and final article on the lessons Brazil can draw from the cybersecurity regulatory initiatives…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #Telefónica #Cybersecurity #PublicPolicy
https://www.europesays.com/spain/83431/

subject to the cloud act...?

seems likely

'Unnamed companies are looking at setting up six data centres in Tasmania, a document tabled by the state government in parliament reveals'

#genAI #tasmania #publicPolicy #datacentres #polycrisis

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-09/six-new-confidential-data-centre-proposals-tasmania-revealed/107131974

How has time spent alone changed by age over the last decade, and what does it mean for wellbeing?

Parth Pandya explores this question in a new #ResolutionFoundation spotlight, in collaborative work with the #ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_news/?story_id=816

#YoungAdults #Loneliness #SocialChange #Demography #Population #SocialScience #Generations #Ageing #WFH #Society #PopulationChange #WorkingFromHome #PublicPolicy #LabourMarket #Wellbeing #TimeUse

A quotation from Molly Ivins

   This is a column for everyone in the path of Hurricane Katrina who ever said, “I’m sorry, I’m just not interested in politics,” or, “There’s nothing I can do about it,” or, “Eh, they’re all crooks anyway.”
   Look around you this morning. I suppose the NRA would argue, “Government policies don’t kill people, hurricanes kill people.” Actually, hurricanes plus government policies kill people. […] This, my friends, is why we need to pay attention to government policies, not political personalities, and to know whereon we vote. It is about our lives.

Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2005-09-09), “Katrina and You,” Texas Observer

More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/16624/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #katrina #disaster #disengagement #government #misgovernment #payattention #policy #political #politics #publicpolicy #voting

RE: https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/116964431707530792

'people have challenges differentiating *doing stuff* online from the companies that *facilitate* us doing stuff online. If you have a cell phone, you’re paying some company for that access, and they have certain control over that access, which you may or may not be aware is even happening. The internet at your home is also different from the internet on your device, for various reasons, including legal reasons that I think are really important'

#interwebs #infrastructure #publicLibraries #publicPolicy

This new book explains why your elderly parents’ retirement home, the nursery where you drop your children, or the company that pipes water into your kitchen is taken over by an increasingly intricate and deregulated industry.

If a private equity fund is "buying something using a lot a debt, [then] all of that debt is loaded onto the company that the private equity fund has acquired."
"Private equity has moved into care homes, housing, water, nurseries and other essential services."
"We have the power for it to be done otherwise."

Hettie O’Brien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAJKiVQZaks via @oscarjiminy

#mortality #publicHealth #housing #publicServices #retirement #careHomes #hospital #expansion #development #LBO #privateFinance #finance #privateFinance #privateEquity #capitalism #publicPolicy #assets #England #Wales #Scotland #privateSector #UK #Britain #Blackstone #property #realEstate #buildToRent #Macquarie #childCare #careIndustry #taxBreaks #pensions #extraction

Why delaying climate action now means higher seas by 2100 – new research
#ClimateChange #SeaLevelRise #GlobalWarming #Glaciers #Environment #Sustainability #ClimateCrisis #PublicPolicy #EarthScience #IPCC #ClimateAction #IceSheets #World #Glaciology
https://the-14.com/why-delaying-climate-action-now-means-higher-seas-by-2100-new-research/

🚗🍷 Oh la la! Paris’s mayor thinks she’s the Picasso of public policy by scribbling out parking spaces and calling it a masterpiece. Meanwhile, Parisians are left playing musical chairs with their cars—guess the tourists will just have to keep Instagramming the Eiffel Tower from the traffic jam! 😂 #TrèsBienManagement
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/21/travel/paris-transformation-anne-hidalgo-mayor #ParisParking #PublicPolicy #TrafficJam #UrbanPlanning #CarCulture #HackerNews #ngated

🚗🍷 Oh la la! Paris’s mayor thinks she’s the Picasso of public policy by scribbling out parking spaces and calling it a masterpiece. Meanwhile, Parisians are left playing musical chairs with their cars—guess the tourists will just have to keep Instagramming the Eiffel Tower from the traffic jam! 😂 #TrèsBienManagement
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/21/travel/paris-transformation-anne-hidalgo-mayor #ParisParking #PublicPolicy #TrafficJam #UrbanPlanning #CarCulture #HackerNews #ngated

🚗🍷 Oh la la! Paris’s mayor thinks she’s the Picasso of public policy by scribbling out parking spaces and calling it a masterpiece. Meanwhile, Parisians are left playing musical chairs with their cars—guess the tourists will just have to keep Instagramming the Eiffel Tower from the traffic jam! 😂 #TrèsBienManagement
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/21/travel/paris-transformation-anne-hidalgo-mayor #ParisParking #PublicPolicy #TrafficJam #UrbanPlanning #CarCulture #HackerNews #ngated

🚗🍷 Oh la la! Paris’s mayor thinks she’s the Picasso of public policy by scribbling out parking spaces and calling it a masterpiece. Meanwhile, Parisians are left playing musical chairs with their cars—guess the tourists will just have to keep Instagramming the Eiffel Tower from the traffic jam! 😂 #TrèsBienManagement
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/21/travel/paris-transformation-anne-hidalgo-mayor #ParisParking #PublicPolicy #TrafficJam #UrbanPlanning #CarCulture #HackerNews #ngated

🚗🍷 Oh la la! Paris’s mayor thinks she’s the Picasso of public policy by scribbling out parking spaces and calling it a masterpiece. Meanwhile, Parisians are left playing musical chairs with their cars—guess the tourists will just have to keep Instagramming the Eiffel Tower from the traffic jam! 😂 #TrèsBienManagement
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/21/travel/paris-transformation-anne-hidalgo-mayor #ParisParking #PublicPolicy #TrafficJam #UrbanPlanning #CarCulture #HackerNews #ngated

Benanav vs Morozov on the Political Economy of AI. Now, this will definitely be quite a read...!

"Choosing among available paths may widen or contract the field of possibilities. Some futures are rendered easier to realize; others are effectively foreclosed; and people’s understandings of what matters shift as they move forward in time—much as in Morozov’s own account of technological worldmaking. The difference is that, in my framework, this process is understood from the outset as political because it unfolds under conditions of scarcity that force collective choice among rival futures.

What is puzzling about Morozov’s critique is that this political core disappears from view. A framework designed to organize conflict over investment—to make trade-offs visible, contestable, and binding when not everything can be pursued at once—is recast as a system of administrative closure that would prematurely discipline experimentation. His analysis is not simply a misunderstanding of my proposed framework but a reversal of its intent: It reads an account meant to politicize worldmaking as an attempt to suppress it."

https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/a-real-political-economy-of-technology/

#AI #GenerativeAI #PoliticalEconomy #Democratization #PublicPolicy #Municipalism #GreenTransition #Communitarianism

A Diaspora That Built a Nation: New White Paper Chronicles the Enduring Impact of Indians in Britain

#TycoonWorld #IndianDiaspora #UKIndiaRelations #DiasporaLeadership #PublicPolicy #EconomicDevelopment #GlobalTalent #WorkforceDevelopment #DigitalTransformation #TechLeadership #InnovationEconomy #HealthcareWorkforce #SkilledMigration #InternationalBusiness #CrossCulturalLeadership #AcademicResearch #ThoughtLeadership #GlobalMobility #EconomicPolicy

https://tycoonworld.in/a-diaspora-that-built-a-nation-new-white-paper-chronicles-the-enduring-impact-of-indians-in-britain/

Home ownership is a false promise in Canada
#Canada #Housing #HomeOwnership #Renters #Economy #HousingCrisis #Inequality #PublicPolicy #UrbanStudies #Montreal #Quebec #AffordableHousing #TenantsRights #HousingJustice #SocialPolicy #RealEstate #Property
https://the-14.com/home-ownership-is-a-false-promise-in-canada/

The 2023 US 50-State National Seismic Hazard Model - Overview And Implications
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https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/science/2023-national-seismic-hazard-model-whats-shaking <-- USGS technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1177/87552930231215428 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #earthquake #seismichazard #risk #hazard #shakemap #cost #economics #geology #engineeringgeology #hazardmodel #model #modeling #seismicity #faultruptures #groundmotions #probabilistic #probability #geostatistics #engineering #planning #management #mitigation #NSHM #forecast #infrastructure #publicsafety #hazardassessment #fault #faulting #structuralgeology #intensity #mercalli #buildingcode #design #publicpolicy #shakemap #engineeringrisk #future
@USGS @FEMA

NEW analysis looks at the relationships between state-provided paid-leave availability and enrollment in public health and nutrition programs (SNAP, Medicaid, WIC) among single low-income women following a birth in the U.S. and finds that SNAP participation is lower in states with paid leave.
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/3/126

#PublicHealth #PublicPolicy #Nutrition #SNAP #Infants #PaidLeave #Parenting