Expanding healthcare coverage is an important public goal, as Democrats are saying at their convention. But how can the country pay for it?
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Schools across America are scrambling to figure out whether and how to reopen. Complying with the rigid bureaucratic structure of union requirements and government regulations is impossible.
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America’s schools were already mired in red tape before COVID-19. Now a system unable to adapt to predictable daily challenges must innovate with distance learning and distancing protocols.
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Last week, the Trump administration announced new regulations to streamline infrastructure permitting. Citing Common Good’s report, "Two Years, Not Ten Years," the new regulations put presumptive limits on size (300 pages) and time (two years) of environmental reviews.
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Accountability is key to fixing broken government. Accountability is vital to public trust, and also to a healthy internal public culture. Nothing is more corrosive to a department than the knowledge that personal performance doesn't matter. Why go the extra mile if others don't? Like a leak in a tire, energy and pride quickly go flat.
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Creating a legal framework for COVID-19 recovery will be the first plank in our Campaign for Common Good. We will host a virtual forum on Tuesday, June 30, at 12pm Eastern time.
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Who has a coherent vision for better government? Good leadership is vital but not sufficient. The current framework frustrates everyone.
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The Washington cocktail of paralytic bureaucracy and polarized politics has stalled the rebuilding of America's decrepit infrastructure for over a decade. Now would be a good time to get off the dime. A million or more jobs — mostly outdoors — would be a great path for helping the economy recover from the COVID shutdown.
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