Ezra Klein Archive: Government
'Sometimes it's useful to have multiple small programs'
Kevin Drum offers some words of caution on the GAO report -- or, more specifically, the reaction to the GAO report -- that I plugged yesterday: First, keep your eye out for attempts to turn the GAO report into a...
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| March 2, 2011; 2:55 PM ET |
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John Boehner's funny numbers
John Boehner is getting a lot of attention, little of it positive, for saying, "Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs. And if some of those...
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| February 16, 2011; 10:25 AM ET |
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Are we done talking about big government?
Jon Chait and Matt Yglesias are kicking around the idea that the passage of the Affordable Care Act fills the final major hole in the American safety net and means, as Matt says, that "the era of big government...
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| January 24, 2011; 9:52 AM ET |
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Government on the scale, Part III
An academic involved in some efforts to evaluate government programs says that both Sen. Kent Conrad and this reader are right: I suspect Senator Conrad and the anonymous letter writer use the term “metrics” to denote different things. There is...
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| January 3, 2011; 5:21 PM ET |
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Government on the scale, cont'd
A reader who spends a lot of time delivering metrics to the government was not happy to hear Sen. Kent Conrad and others saying that there are no metrics or evaluation components behind most government programs, and in particular for...
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| January 3, 2011; 2:31 PM ET |
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Why wait to seat the new Congress?
I quoted it in this morning's Wonkbook, but Bruce Ackerman's op-ed calling for legislation to abolish the lame-duck session of Congress seems a little funny to me. It would make a lot more sense to just inaugurate members of Congress...
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Dylan Matthews
| November 12, 2010; 3:28 PM ET |
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2010 Midterms, Congress, Government
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