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Tips for Serious Cost Cutters

Learn how to make structural changes that will bend the cost curve of government down.

If you have to make budget cuts, our colleagues William D. Eggers and John O'Leary at Management Insights, have the column for you.

The key, they argue, is to find ways to deliver essential public services, to work within the boundaries of the politically possible and to execute a serious initiative to streamline public spending. READ MORE.

Management Insights is published here on Governing.com in collaboration with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. The column is moderated by Stephen Goldsmith, a Professor of Government at Harvard Kennedy School (on leave), and deputy mayor of operations for the City of New York.

Elizabeth Daigneau is GOVERNING's managing editor.
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