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How to Raise Municipal Revenues While Reducing Inequality

Posted on October 21, 2019September 15, 2019 by Dustin

Introduction Municipalities are funding their budgets pushed to the brink. In many communities, the tax base is declining (Augustine, Bell, Brunori & Youngman, 2009) while the amount of services expected by residents is staying the same, or even increasing. In some cases, functions formerly performed by the state or federal governments are being “downloaded” to…

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The Importance of Open Data in Municipal Governments

Posted on October 7, 2019October 7, 2019 by Dustin

Introduction “Open data” describes the provision of datasets describing activities from a company, organization, or government for public use. (Josefin, 2019) Open data can be provided by scientists (who probably pioneered the concept), but also by cities, companies and others who wish for others to have access to the data they produce to ensure that…

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Building a Pocket Park in Sigourney Iowa

Posted on September 23, 2019September 23, 2019 by Dustin

Introduction Pocket parks are parks that are under 0.2 acres in size. (National Recreation and Park Association, n.d.) They are the smallest size of park, often located in commercial areas or in between houses in residential areas. There is research support to the idea that pocket parks can raise property values (Mwende, 2018), in addition…

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Keokuk County Economic Indicators

Posted on September 5, 2019September 15, 2019 by Dustin

Introduction In a previous blog post, Wealth Creation in Rural Communities, I noted that an important element of wealth creation is to understand the economic indicators in your region so that you can begin to plan improvements to them. Most economic indicators collected by US federal agencies are available at the County level, but some are…

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Wealth Creation in Rural Communities

Posted on September 1, 2019September 8, 2019 by Dustin

Introduction Have you ever considered what it actually means to have wealth? Usually when we say someone is wealthy, we mean that they have a lot of money. But wealth is a lot more than that. Wealth is defined more broadly as “the social worth of an economy’s entire productive base [which] consists of the…

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