HeyJaredEating Policy
In business, culture eats strategy. In government, culture eats policy. Here we'll talk about the problems of state capacity (government's ability to achieve its policy goals) and how to fix them. From the author of Recoding America.
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How to Peel a Banana (opens the original)
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Many of you know of Marina Nitze, co-author of Crisis Engineering and Hack Your Bureaucracy. Marina is a crisis engineer at Layer Aleph an
The Crisis We've Been Waiting For (opens the original)
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Remember Aaron Lemon-Strauss, the executive director of FAFSA who wrote the brilliant response to a GAO report defending the product model? Well, he’s just joined Recoding America as our chief digital and AI officer (hooray!) and has a few more wise and motivating thoughts on this moment and how to meet it. Welcome, Aaron!!— JenWhen a group of us joined FAFSA in the summer of 2024 it was already on fire<s
Weekend short read: Fire is a metaphor, until its not (opens the original)
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My husband and I are back in California for the summer, at least for one more week. Not Oakland, where we used to live, but in a remote town of 137 people in the Sierras. This place is paradise to me — a caring, close-knit community, incredible natural beauty — but it’s also Paradise, as in Paradise, CA, where 85 people died and 18,804 buildings were destroyed in what remains the deadliest and most destructive single wildfire in California history.1 To get to our town, you turn off the highway a
Checking in on Outcomes Reviews (opens the original)
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First, some quick (mostly unrelated) self-promotion: Andrew Greenway and I wrote an article for Foreign Affairs. We talk about the need for advanced democracies to relearn the art of starting over with new institutions when the old ones resist reform. It’s general overview for an audience I don’t usually write for, and I’m eager for others to weigh in with more examples and specifics. There should be far more written about this topic than there is, and responsible reboots need to become commonpl
Thinking the unthinkable (opens the original)
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Earlier this week, the New York Times podcast The Daily covered what’s happening to SNAP (food stamps) in Arizona. Arizona is ahead of the curve, so to speak, in implementing the work requirements H.R. 1 imposes, and the impacts are staggering. So far, according to their reporting, about 450,000 people have lost their benefits — half the rolls. In 2023, the average monthly benefit for an individual in Arizona was $180, and the average for a household was $336. I’m not sure how to blend these, bu
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