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• Public Pay and the Cost of Transparency
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   April 26, 2012
• Many public officials don’t want their compensation posted online for all to see. That’s understandable. But making government workers’ pay public is probably inevitable, and it raises some difficult questions.
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• The Expensive Folly of Tax Incentives
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   April 23, 2012
• There is little evidence that giving away the taxpayers’ money for economic development works. Only the market can create jobs.
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• Leading from the Middle
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   April 19, 2012
• Organizational change, the mantra goes, must come from the top. Not necessarily.
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• Five Reasons for Hope and Optimism
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   April 16, 2012
• Amid all the gloom and doom, with our constant focus on what’s wrong, there are some hopeful things happening.
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• Charles Dickens’ Fiscal Lessons for Government
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   April 12, 2012
• Managing the taxpayers’ money wisely is about more than balancing the books. The daily lives of ordinary people are at stake.
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• The Wastebusters that Government Needs
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   April 9, 2012
• The scandal at the General Services Administration illustrates the value of inspectors general. Trust in government is at stake, so why are so many federal IG positions vacant?
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• The Big Mistake that Unions Are Making
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   April 5, 2012
• Accepting wage and benefit cuts to preserve jobs is bad for unions, and it’s bad for the rest of us.
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• Public Pensions and the Infrastructure We Need
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   April 2, 2012
• It's going to cost a lot of money to bring our infrastructure systems up to snuff. Public pensions could have a big role to play.
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• A Competition for Ideas in Public Policy
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   March 29, 2012
• An event coming up in Philadelphia promises to go a long way toward matching the challenges government faces with ideas coming out of some of the top schools of public policy.
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• The Incalculable Things that Define Us
• Posted By: Mark Funkhouser |   March 26, 2012
• As we try to measure everything that moves, we need to remember that some of the most important things about us can’t be measured.
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