Monthly Archives: September 2010

Visit PolicyMap at Booth#11 at the NCSHA Annual Conference in Boston 10/4

All the data you need. All in one place. All online. The Louisiana Housing Finance Agency uses PolicyMap as a platform for increasing transparency and sharing information about all of their investments – across all funding streams – with staff … Continue reading

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Governor Paterson Launches Public-Private Partnership to Expand Grocery Stores in Underserved Neighborhoods

New York Healthy Food/Healthy Communities Initiative Will Increase Number of Food Markets in Communities Throughout New York State NEW YORK, Sep 29, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — –LIIF, Goldman Sachs, TRF, and The Food Trust Will Provide Capital Grants and Loans … Continue reading

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Religion Data from Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

Researchers from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life have made a splash in the media for their religious knowledge survey. They found that overall Americans were only able to answer about half of their questions. And the groups … Continue reading

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PolicyMap Goes to the Census

In our continuing effort to bring you the most timely and meaningful data available, last week Elizabeth Nash and Katie Nelson of the PolicyMap team attended a Census training on federal statistics in Washington DC. In four days of hands-on … Continue reading

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PolicyMap Used By Dan Rather Reports

Last night, Dan Rather Reports ran a story on issues surrounding H2B Visa workers in the United States. To prep for their story, they asked us to map data they’d obtained from the Department of Labor and the Department of … Continue reading

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Did you know… (Add Sites 2)

Welcome to our series on helpful tips for PolicyMap. With over 10,000 indicators of data and many features, we hope our weekly tips can help users better utilize PolicyMap. For a complete training, please join a free online session here: … Continue reading

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Introducing My Sites and Shared Subscriber Sites

Anybody visiting PolicyMap today will find two new tabs in the Add Site menu! The first is called My Sites. If you are a Premium Subscriber and send us data for upload, you’ll find just those datasets we’ve loaded for … Continue reading

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PolicyMap is out and about!

PolicyMap is out and about this week! While Phil Vu is presenting with the Shimberg Center at the Florida Housing Coalition, two members of our data development team, Elizabeth Nash and Katie Nelson, are in Washington this week for a … Continue reading

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TRF Releases Nationwide Food Access Data

  Want to find out if your community is among those considered to have inadequate access to a full-service grocery store? TRF is making some of our food access data and analyses available on our PolicyMap platform for free!   … Continue reading

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Top 10: Percent of population that received Supplemental Security Income in 2009

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a federal program that provides cash for basic needs to aged, blind, and disabled people with little or no other income source. The Social Security Administration releases data on how many SSI recipients are in … Continue reading

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