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From the Front Lines: Insurance Cost Report
October 5, 2021
On this episode of Institute of Real Estate Management’s podcast, From the Front Lines, Mary Donovan talks with Ted Thurn about recent research on the magnitude and impact of increases in insurance premiums for housing providers across the county.
Biden’s Plans To Rebuild Infrastructure And Alliances Threatened By His Embrace Of Protectionism
July 14, 2021
“President Biden seems to want to reassert U.S. leadership and repair the reputational damage caused by his predecessor’s nationalist economic policies. But Biden’s own affinity for protectionism, which lurks in the background of his domestic economic programs, isn’t helping that cause, and changing the branding of economic policies from “America-First” to “Worker-Centric” hasn’t fooled anybody.”
Stop Blaming Patents For The World’s Low Vaccination Rates
June 25, 2021
“The rapid development and dissemination of highly effective COVID-19 vaccines should inspire confidence in human ingenuity and gratitude for the rules and institutions that enable such life-saving innovation to flourish in the United States. Instead, the Biden administration has endorsed the misplaced scorn for those rules and institutions that the activist left spoon feeds the developing world.”
Much Maligned Multinational Enterprises Are Essential To Biden’s Build Back Better Agenda
May 20, 2021
“To deliver high-quality infrastructure, Biden’s plan must welcome competition from the world’s best manufacturers, construction firms, and engineers. That kind of openness—and the infrastructure improvements it delivers—will also serve to keep inward investment flowing.”
Restoring Public Trust In Technology And Media Is Infrastructure Investment
April 15, 2021
“Inauthentic content—both inadvertent and deliberately deceptive—is increasing. The “Content Authenticity Initiative” partners technology company Adobe, the New York Times, Twitter, and other firms producing and publishing content to help consumers make more informed decisions about what to trust.”
“Buy American” Schemes And Maritime Graft Will Only Inflate Biden’s Astronomical InfrastructurePrice Tag
April 1, 2021
“Suspending Buy American, Jones Act, and Dredge Act restrictions so that U.S. infrastructure needs can be met at more reasonable costs would make good economic sense.”
ndp | analytics Appoints Daniel Ikenson as Director of Policy Research
March 2021
ndp | analytics, a strategic economic and communication research firm, announced today that Daniel Ikenson has joined the firm as director of policy research.
Congress must stop playing games with military education benefits
March 2021
Dropping current military students and denying future ones their college education is what passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 27 and is what the Senate will be considering this week.
Hearthside, NDP Analytics share what ABA workforce study findings mean for the industry
November 2020
This October, the American Bakers Association (ABA) and NDP Analytics released the findings of the Baking Industry Frontline Workforce Landscape study.
Most Favored Nation Policy Is Unfavorable to U.S. Biopharmaceutical Research
November 2020
Back in September, President Trump signed an Executive Order ordering the Department of Health and Human Services to implement a most favored nation (MFN) policy for pharmaceutical reimbursement in Medicare.
Affordable Housing Owners See Higher Operating Costs Due to COVID-19
October 2020
Low- and moderate-income housing providers experienced, on average, an 11.8% decline in revenue and a 14.8% increase in operating expenses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report by the National Leased Housing Association (NLHA).
Survey: BH organizations closing programs, reducing staff amid pandemic
April 2020
Behavioral health organizations have canceled, rescheduled and even turned away patients, according to results of a new survey on the economic impact of COVID‐19 — an impact felt even more among smaller organizations.