I'm trying something new on Civic Parent - video tutorials with accompanying interactive Tableau visualizations. I've been told my in-person and on-screen explanations are helpful - I do this with clients, in my volunteer work, and I've done it in public spaces with organizations like Jersey City Together. So what I'm trying to do here...Continue reading
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This post is part of a Civic Parent’s series, Take Your Seat at the Table: A Taxpayer’s Guide to Decoding Your City Budget. This series is a plain-language walk through New Jersey’s Municipal User Friendly Budget (UFB). In my previous post I looked at the idea of structural imbalance. In this post I want to dig...Continue reading
This post is part of a Civic Parent’s series, Take Your Seat at the Table: A Taxpayer’s Guide to Decoding Your City Budget. This series is a plain-language walk through New Jersey’s Municipal User Friendly Budget (UFB). In my last post, I wrote “Where the Money Goes: Local Government is Mostly People Cost” which pointed to structural...Continue reading