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Category Archives: Evidence
Congress Expected to Act on Evidence Commission Recommendations
The House and Senate are reportedly readying legislation that will adopt at least some of the recommendations of the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking, which released its final report earlier today. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray, who sponsored … Continue reading
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Conservatives Push Back on Liberal-leaning Academic Research
Lurking below the bipartisan harmony on evidence-based policy is an important conflict. How much of the evidence is driven by left-leaning political agendas? The division surfaced in interviews with prominent conservatives last year: “A lot of the people doing these … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Justice, Evidence
Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us
Evidence-based policy rests, in part, on the assumption that the effectiveness of certain programs can be determined through rigorous research. But what if the research — not just on social programs, but science in general — is usually wrong? That … Continue reading
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Trump Budget Uses Research Evidence to Justify Spending Cuts
President Trump’s full budget proposal for the coming federal fiscal year (FY 2018), which was released earlier today, has shown that evidence can be used not just to justify increased funding for programs that work, but also to cut funding … Continue reading
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Congress Set to Defund Social Innovation Fund
An omnibus appropriations package that Congress is slated to vote on later this week contains no funding for the Social Innovation Fund. Barring any last minute changes, this may be the end of the road for this signature evidence-based program. … Continue reading
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Trump Administration Proposes Eliminating SIF, Cutting Teen Pregnancy Prevention; EIR Unaffected
The Trump administration has proposed eliminating the Social Innovation Fund (SIF) and cutting the evidence-based Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) program in a package sent to Congress covering the budget for the remainder of the current fiscal year, according to a … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Evidence, Social Innovation Fund
OMB Memo Signals Possible Elimination of Social Innovation Fund
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is circulating a memo that targets nine federal programs for elimination by the Trump administration, one of which is the Corporation for National and Community Service, the agency that houses the … Continue reading
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Trump OMB Nominee May Support Reworked Evidence-based Budget Tool
President Trump’s nominee to head OMB, Rep. Mick Mulvaney, indicated at two different Senate hearings on January 24 that he will consider reviving the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), which the Bush administration used to examine the effectiveness of federal … Continue reading
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Reading the Evidence Tea Leaves: Trump Inaugural Address Cites Welfare, Education
What role will evidence play in the new administration? While that is not yet clear, in his inaugural address President Trump called out two issues where evidence-based policy has been playing an increasingly important role: education and welfare. While both issues … Continue reading