Following
Following | May 9, 2013
Putting inner city students on a path to high-paying jobs, for real
Following | Harlem Children's Zone | May 8, 2013
Forget plan B: To fight teen pregnancy, focus on economic opportunity
Following | Reading Partners | May 1, 2013
Get to know a C.E.O., with Michael Lombardo
Following | Policy | April 30, 2013
Measuring How Well Government Works
In an April 2013 paper commissioned by America Achieves/Results for America, Harvard economist Jeffrey Liebman argues that "the only way to keep making progress on our nation's challenges in this fiscal environment is to produce more value with each dollar that government spends. Doing so will require better use of evidence in policymaking." According to a Washington Post article previewing the paper, “economists say the government will need to ramp up its efforts to figure out which programs work and which ones don’t, and shift resources accordingly.
Following | Policy | April 30, 2013
Children Fare Poorly in the U.S.A
An April 2013 UNICEF report comparing children’s well-being in 29 developed nations ranks America 26th, sharing the bottom of the heap with three of the poorest countries in the annual survey: Lithuania, Latvia and Romania.
Following | Nurse-Family Partnership | April 12, 2013