PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

MAY 5, 2017

"This year presented the Finance Department with many challenges while drafting the budget, however, priority based budgeting proved an exceedingly valuable tool that provides a "new lens" to balance and present a more fiscally sustainable future for the city." - Jamie Rouch, Branson Finance Director As Jamie Rouch from the City of Branson, Missouri put it, the evolution of the PBB Master Plan has necessarily shifted from helping communities “implement PBB, to using PBB data to make change!

Strategic Planning 52

Strategic Planning Sustainability Magazine Budgeting 52

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

MAY 3, 2017

Forty-two states and the District of Columbia spent $6.2 billion in state funds on pre-kindergarten programs in 2015, highlighting the emphasis that policymakers are placing on pre-k to help students prepare for elementary school. Research has shown both the success of pre-K as well as inconclusive evidence about the sustainability of those gains as children become older.

2017 52

2017 2015 Regulations Education 52

Poverty & Policy

MAY 1, 2017

The Washington Post recently published a long article on Social Security Disability Insurance benefits in small rural communities. It set off a well-deserved backlash. But it made me wonder whether anyone had ideas for improving the program. Hence this post. Aspersions on SSDI and Beneficiaries. The Post article focused on a former roofer who was suffering chronic pain because he’d fallen to the ground.

Housing 40

Housing Article Security Legislation 40