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Show Me the Evidence
Obama's Fight for Rigor and Results in Social Policy
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2014
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The first comprehensive history of the Obama administration's evidence-based initiatives. From its earliest days, the Obama administration planned and enacted several initiatives to fund social programs based on rigorous evidence of success. Ron Haskins and Greg Margolis tell the story of sixspanning preschool and K-12 education, teen pregnancy, employment and training, health, and community-based programs.
Readers will appreciate the fast-moving descriptions of the politics and policy debates that shaped these federal programs and the analysis of whether they will truly reshape federal social policy and greatly improve its impacts on the nation's social problems.
Based on interviews with 134 individuals (including advocates, officials at the Office of Management and Budget and the Domestic Policy Council, Congressional staff, and officials in the federal agencies administering the initiatives) as well as Congressional and administration documents and news accounts, the authors examine each of the six initiatives in separate chapters. The story of each initiative includes a review of the social problem the initiative addresses; the genesis and enactment of the legislation that authorized the initiative; and the development of the procedures used by the administration to set the evidence standard and evaluation requirementsincluding the requirements for grant applications and awarding of grants.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-2571-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-2570-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
1
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Table of Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: The Obama Strategy for Attacking Social Problems No access Pages 1 - 30
The Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visit Initiative No access Pages 31 - 66
The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative No access Pages 67 - 101
The Investing in Innovation Initiative No access Pages 102 - 131
The Social Innovation Fund Initiative No access Pages 132 - 167
The Workforce Innovation Fund Initiative No access Pages 168 - 187
The Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Initiative No access Pages 188 - 212
So Far, So Good No access Pages 213 - 240
Appendix A. Interviewees No access Pages 241 - 248
Appendix B. Questionnaire No access Pages 249 - 252
Appendix C. Share of Formula and Competitive Grant Funds in Six Evidence-Based Initiatives No access Pages 253 - 254
Appendix D. Abbreviations No access Pages 255 - 258
