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Marc Joffe

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Marc Joffe, a policy analyst and former financial IT manager, is a senior fellow at the Data Foundation, which advocates for open data and evidence-informed public policy. A visiting fellow at the California Policy Center, he is a former federal and state policy analyst at the Cato Institute, senior policy analyst at the Reason Foundation and senior director at Moody’s Analytics. He holds an MBA from New York University and an MPA from San Francisco State University.

A new federal law could go a long way toward improving oversight of grant spending and making state and local financial reports more accessible to researchers and constituents.
An underfunded division of the agency struggles to collect data state and local governments need. What's needed is a public-private partnership.
The fiscal troubles across the Atlantic could be an opportunity for America's governments.
A lot could be done to replace fear and ignorance with data and insight.