And that’s a rebellion, interestingly enough. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for May 10, 2020.
Michael Lipsky
Michael Lipsky is the author of the award-winning Street Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services (1980, 2010).
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Why the Kerner Commission Didn’t Move the Needle on Racial Justice
Five decades after President Johnson convened the Kerner Commission to investigate the roots of racial discrimination and violence in urban America, remarkably little has changed. That’s the conclusion of a new book co-authored by former Senator Fred Harris, the sole surviving member of the commission. Organized in the wake of deadly riots in more than […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
ALEC’s Worthless Recommendations for Prosperity in the States
A new study shows just how terrible Arthur Laffer’s economic prescriptions are.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Devolving Federal Programs to the States Means Cutting Them
States are “laboratories of democracy” but this should be understood in context.
Posted inWorking in America
Time for Government and Public Workers to Be Friends Again
Labor-management cooperation is the key to treading the line between budget shortfalls and unions’ demands.
Posted inSpecial Report
Redeeming Public Remedy
Private enterprise produces employment, wages, and wealth, but our public structures are what facilitate the conduct of business, providing the framework necessary for markets to thrive. Key public systems also help protect people against the risks of a free-market economy and provide the infrastructure for economic opportunity such as public- and higher-education systems, tasks that […]
Posted inSpecial Report
Under the Radar
The news from Washington is filled with debates about safeguarding Americans’ Social Security, proposals to make tax cuts permanent, and sweeping federal budget reductions in a time of looming deficits. In the meantime, the 50 states, various territories, and close to 90,000 counties, cities, towns, and other local jurisdictions struggle with their own concrete budgetary […]
Posted inFeatures
The War at Home
Once upon a time, the war at home meant frugality and sacrifice. Our parents or grandparents collected string and made balls of tinfoil, one gum wrapper at a time. They accepted rationing and went each week to the grocer with coupons for butter, meat, and sugar. They took all sorts of jobs to serve the […]
Posted inFeatures
Sins of Commission
In stacking the nominally bipartisan social security commission with members all committed to some form of privatization, this mandateless president seeks to advance one of his top campaign promises. But he also debases the concept of a presidential commission as it has been used historically. In an increasingly polarized environment, the man who called himself […]