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Outcomes Review: Realigning Legislative Incentives
How might a state legislature shift from outputs to outcomes?
Nov 20 • Jennifer Pahlka
Robert Moses's unfinished business should be Mamdani's priority
The mayor-elect has 25,000 job applicants in 24 hours and a civil service system designed to keep him from hiring any of them
Nov 12 • Jennifer Pahlka
From the Archives: Stop making people do the wrong jobs
Public servants are largely doing a great job — at the wrong jobs. A bolder agenda for workforce planning.
Nov 10 • Jennifer Pahlka
Announcing the Recoding America Fund
A bipartisan reckoning with the administrative state
Oct 22 • Jennifer Pahlka
GAO gets schooled by the Department of Education
The FAFSA team snaps back, then punches back
Sep 12 • Jennifer Pahlka
Better Politicians
Weeding is Fundamental
Aug 20 • Jennifer Pahlka
Channel your inner Marie Kondo
The life-changing art of identifying and eliminating policy clutter
Aug 11 • Jennifer Pahlka
Grasping at (Paper) Straws
You can have government efficiency or wage the culture war, but not both at once
Aug 1 • Gabe Menchaca
Eating Policy
Eating Policy
In business, culture eats strategy. In government, culture eats policy. Here we'll talk about the problems of state capacity (government's ability to achieve its policy goals) and how to fix them. From the author of Recoding America.
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