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Omnia Group, a Manhattan real estate development firm, is using Mercury to educate the Dept. of Veterans' Affairs about its program to provide housing options and supportive services to homeless veterans.
The US Dept. of Housing and Urban Affairs' homeless assessment report found more than 37K veterans experienced homelessness on a single night in January 2019, of whom 61 percent were staying in emergency shelters or transitional housing programs.
The number of homeless vets has declined by 50 percent from 2009 to 2019, according to the report.
Former Congressman Jeff Miller, who co-chairs Mercury's Washington and Tampa offices, handles VA outreach for Omnia.
The Florida Republican headed the House Veterans' Affairs Committee during his three terms in Congress before stepping down in 2017.
Omnicom owns Mercury.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
Public Strategies Washington has added Abbie Sorrendino, a former aide to now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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