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Health and Wellness Promotion
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Expo Line Could Enhance Wellbeing in Santa Monica
Douglas Yeung @DouglasCYeung
May 6, 2016
Santa Monica Daily Press
On May 20, the long-awaited Metro Expo Line will begin service to Santa Monica. Viewing urban mobility as a key component of community wellbeing may be an instructive way to assess the impact of Expo and other infrastructure efforts.
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Homelessness
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ISIS, Homelessness, India's Election: RAND Weekly Recap
Jun 7, 2019
This weekly recap focuses on what can be done about ISIS detainees, a program that helps reduce homelessness, Modi's reelection in India, and more.
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Health and Wellness Promotion
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A Chance to Thrive: What We Can Learn from One City's Effort to Transform Community
Mar 8, 2016
RAND researchers have partnered with the city of Santa Monica, California to redefine not just how cities measure success, but how they assess their very purpose for being.
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Health and Wellness Promotion
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Wellbeing Project to Weave Science Into Government Decisions
Anita Chandra
Apr 29, 2015
Santa Monica Daily Press
Wellbeing is about individuals having the skills and opportunity to live a meaningful life. There are countless things that cities do that either contribute or detract from that sense of meaning. Santa Monica's Wellbeing Project is working to fundamentally change how the government thinks about its citizens.
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Urban Planning
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RAND Is Helping Santa Monica Measure the City's Overall Well-Being
Mar 1, 2013
The RAND Corporation is helping its hometown of Santa Monica, Calif., become the first city in America to use a measurement of overall well-being to drive public policy.
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