PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

MAY 24, 2017

“ What we are hoping is that we're going to have a real overview of the 733 programs that the city performs, what they cost, and then a sense of how much they actually meet our priorities as a city ," Toledo Councilwoman Sandy Spang The City of Toledo is spending money to save money. City council is changing the way they look at the budget hoping to save money in the end.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

MAY 26, 2017

In 2015, a unique collaboration was launched call the Rhode Island Innovative Policy Lab (RIIPL). It is a partnership between researchers at Brown University and the Office of the Governor of Rhode Island, with the goal of helping state agencies design evidence-based policies to better serve Rhode Island families. RIIPL’s goal is to use data and science to improve policy, alleviate poverty and increase equity of opportunity.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

MAY 26, 2017

There has been substantial growth in the use of experiments in public management over recent years. The substantive contributions are becoming broad and deep, and span a range of research questions about core topic areas. These observations were part of the motivation for Sebastian Jilke , Gregg Van Ryzin and I to put together an edited book about this experimental turn.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 22, 2017

Posts on single motherhood consistently rank among my weekly top-10 viewed. I’ve published nothing on the issues for quite awhile. So I’ll take a brief break — and give you one too — from the stream of reports, op-eds, forecasts and the like sparked by turbulence in the White House and fractiousness in the Congress. Here’s some of what we learn from the aptly-titled Single Mother Guide , fleshed out from other sources and what’s stashed in my own brain.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

MAY 23, 2017

In this podcast episode, we explore two real-life stories from the front lines of government performance improvement efforts that highlight the importance of replication and validation in evidence-based policy. In the U.K., the department of revenue and customs, in conjunction with the U.K. Behavioral Insights Team (BIT), tested new versions of the letter sent to people who were late in paying their taxes.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 26, 2017

Well, we finally have the full version of Trump’s proposed budget for upcoming fiscal year. And we’ve all seen and/or heard news reports, op-eds, social media takes and the like. They generally have one of two focuses — new cuts, both total and by cabinet-level department or cuts to certain specific programs. These tacks are basically the same as when the administration released its skinny budget preview, except that we now have a shift prompted by a range of cuts to safety net programs th

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