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Rawlings-Blake: “I am proud to be a Geek City”
November 13, 2013Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor of Baltimore, announces she’s proud for Baltimore to be called a ‘Geek City.’ This comment is in response to Bridgespan Group and Results… Read more »
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How Cities are Using Data to Save Lives
November 12, 2013By Anya Kamenetz Baltimore reached the lowest infant mortality rate the city has ever recorded in 2012. Denver Public School students saw test scores improve… Read more »
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Oklahoma! Where the Kids Learn Early
November 9, 2013By Nicholas D. Kristof November 9, 2013 LIBERALS don’t expect Oklahoma to serve as a model of social policy. But, astonishingly, we can see in… Read more »
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Bloomberg, Champion of the Poor
November 5, 2013By Michael B. Katz DURING New York City’s mayoral race, criticism of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg for neglecting the poor ignored his bold and unprecedented antipoverty measures…. Read more »
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Why Prisons are Shrinking
October 30, 2013By The New York Times Editorial Board The mandatory sentencing movement that swept the United States beginning in the 1970s drove the state prison population… Read more »
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Do We Invest In Preschools or Prisons?
October 30, 2013By Nicholas D. Kristof Congress is often compared to pre-K, which seems defamatory of small children. But the similarities also offer hope, because an initiative… Read more »
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Cavuto: Washington Needs Moneyball Approach
October 24, 2013Moneyball All-Star, John Bridgeland on Fox Business News with Neil Cavuto talking about why we need government to play Moneyball.
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A Moneyball approach to government
October 18, 2013By John Bridgeland and Peter Orszag Millions of Americans have felt the direct effects of the ongoing government shutdown, just the latest in a series… Read more »