新作坊

Advancing evidence-based policymaking to solve social problems

摘要：

Despite spending billions and billions of dollars each year the US is simply not making rapid enough progress in addressing a range of social problems. Solving such social problems, difficult under any circumstances, is complicated by the nation's continuing fiscal woes. The good news is that over the past decade, new evidence- based practices have emerged, at the federal, state, and local levels that simultaneously offer the potential to speed up progress in addressing social problems and to make better use of taxpayer dollars. The various evidence-based practices that have emerged in recent years fall into five general categories, based on the challenges they are intended to address. These challenges are: 1. Subsidizing learning and experimentation to develop new solutions. 2. Increasing the amount of evidence on what works. 3. Making greater use of evidence in budget and management decisions. 4. Making purposeful efforts to target improved outcomes for particular populations. 5. Spurring innovation and aligning incentives through cross-sector and community-based collaboration.