Death and Taxes
MAY 11, 2017
In late 2014, just after joining the SOG, the NCDOR included me in the initial discussions among assessors about North Carolina’s reappraisal standards. This blog post includes some of the […] The post Appraisal and Reappraisal. Just Do It? appeared first on Death and Taxes.
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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Social Pinpoint
MAY 15, 2017
Imagine yourself sitting in a town hall meeting discussing the latest traffic project in the city. An individual stands up and angrily expresses their opinion about a problem, but you don’t necessarily agree with them. You might not be alone either. That angry member of the community might only represent a small percentage of the. The post Online Engagement vs Offline Engagement: Is one more successful than the other?
Data.gov
MAY 10, 2017
When it comes to ocean planning, there are multiple user groups, activity types, natural resources, and physical forces to consider. In the face of such complexity, local planning efforts can benefit from federally funded consistent data collection and sharing, especially when involving … Continued. The post The Northeast Regional Ocean Council and Maritime Data appeared first on Data.gov.
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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.
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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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!
Social Pinpoint
MAY 11, 2017
Community engagement often involves contentious issues that evoke emotional responses from the community. Unfortunately, these responses can lead to ‘scare campaigns’ that promote misinformation, completely derailing the engagement process by raising unrelated issues. These misunderstandings can spread quickly and lead to the community losing trust in the organization, often before the engagement campaign has even begun!
Poverty & Policy
MAY 18, 2017
We all, I’m sure, know how people on “welfare,” i.e. receiving virtually any safety net benefit, are often bad-mouthed. We know too that the process of gaining benefits and keeping them often subjects recipients to requirements and hassles that we’d never imposed on better-off people. The humiliations and inconveniences deter some eligible people from applying — a feature, not a bug in some state and local systems.
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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In a survey of U.S. business owners, more than 64% indicated their local government’s online tax portal needs improvement. It’s clear that while business owners want to work with their local government to stay in compliance, many online tax systems do not enable them to do so effectively.
Death and Taxes
MAY 17, 2017
As this year’s North Carolina Association of Assessing Officers (NCAAO) President, I’ve tried to make good communication one of my priorities. Across North Carolina, we have received appeals from common […] The post Communicating and Sharing Information appeared first on Death and Taxes.
Death and Taxes
MAY 22, 2017
Fiscal illusion, sounds catchy doesn’t it? Does it sound more like something you would read about on an ophthalmology website than a blog on taxes? Well, that is where you […] The post It was an (im)perfect illusion: Fiscal Illusion and You appeared first on Death and Taxes.
Social Pinpoint
MAY 11, 2017
Creating a marketing campaign is crucial for any online engagement project. Without one, you could be missing out on many opportunities and lose access to your community and stakeholders (aka ‘customers’), but that does not mean that every marketing campaign is a good campaign. There are a few focus-points of your strategy to keep in mind.
Poverty & Policy
MAY 15, 2017
Recent mail included not only the usual junk, requests for donations and bills, but a magazine from Stanford University’s Center on Poverty and Inequality. Such a surprise, since I hadn’t ordered it. And such an informative and thought-provoking issue. It’s a series of what it terms “blueprints” for ending poverty, prefaced by two framing papers. One presents key facts that reforms should reflect, the other a litmus tests for them.
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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
MAY 12, 2017
Massachusetts is known as a leader in providing education policymakers with research findings that they can use to improve policy and practices. The state’s Office of Planning and Research, within the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE), takes a multifaceted approach: Design a proactive research agenda, also known as a learning agenda.
Poverty & Policy
MAY 12, 2017
Some followers may have noticed a long silence. I’ve just rejoined the networked world after another fall — this one, unlike the first, a complication of a complication of a condition only recently diagnosed. As you might imagine, I’ve been dwelling on health care even more than I would have otherwise. So I was ready to launch a diatribe against major, widely-reported harms inflicted by the House repeal-replacement bill.
Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast
MAY 9, 2017
Because many of the most important functions of state and local governments involve contracting for goods and services supplied by the private sector, improving procurement processes is an important way to strengthen outcomes for citizens. That is the motivation behind our series on results-driven contracting. Our focus today is Seattle, Washington, whose Human Services Department worked with the Government Performance Lab (GPL) at the Harvard Kennedy School to improve outcomes for its homeles
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.
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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.
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.
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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