A recent MissionSquare Retirement survey finds 81% of public employees worry about insufficient retirement savings. Many also lack emergency savings, highlighting a strong need for more financial education and planning. Read the full findings! tinyurl.com/mpvczu6b

Love this piece by Davenport Institute’s own, Robert Jordan, and Pepperdine School Public Policy grad student, Caden Benedict.

The City of San Diego is forecasting a $258MM deficit. It's worth looking at this helpful #dataviz (on the City site) of the last few budget cycles. Some hints: 1. Overall Budget UP 10% YoY 2. Infrastructure UP 10% 3. Police UP 8% 4. Fire/Rescue UP 30% sandiegoca.opengov.com/transparency#/…

Davenport Institute’s Robert Jordan moderates panel here in #DTLA for the Social Enterprise Collective. Talking cross sector leadership! So good to partner w our friends at ⁦Pepperdine GSEP⁩!

Pepperdine students on the Malibu campus are required to shelter in place in the Tyler Campus Center or Payson Library beginning at 4:30 PM as power remains out. Students will be in a shelter location for the duration of the night. Student Affairs staff will be in both locations

A new day dawns at Pepperdine University…incredible resilience displayed by students, faculty and staff…and the customary heroism of firefighters!

Please consider joining us on FEB 5th in Downtown LA…👇👇👇

This will be a great conference!

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Tune in for this free and timely discussion about civility. Find out why it’s so much more than “politeness.” ICMA

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Honoring a great #localgov leader on May 7th in #DTLA. Still some seats for this dinner event.

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After LA's fires killed 30 and caused up to $250B in damage, Hoover Senior Fellow Lee Ohanian asks whether Democratic leaders overlooked executive experience when they backed Karen Bass over Rick Caruso in 2022. Read more in California on Your Mind: hoover.org/research/obama…

“None of these things are one-offs or transactions. They are part of a bigger mosaic of the America First agenda.” -Kiron Skinner, Taube Family Chair. spectator.org/trumps-middle-…

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👀👀 just over the hill from campus!

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Earlier today, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) published footage from October 31, captured by a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 “Reaper” Surveillance Drone operating over the Gaza Strip as part of the American-led Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC), showing militants, likely members of