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New Books from Urban Institute Press

policyandevidence Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age: The Great Disconnect

Paul Gary Wyckoff | $26.50

With the warring between left and right, Democrats and Republicans, advocacy groups on one side and advocacy groups on the other, it seems as if those who set our national agenda are those who shout the loudest. more

 


worklife_policies_smWork-Life Policies

Ann C. Crouter, Alan Booth | $32.50

Workplace policies that provide flexible scheduling, leave for caregiving, and assistance with child care likely benefit employers in recruitment, retention, productivity, and health care costs. Their benefits to employees seem obvious. Researchers, however, are just beginning to move beyond correlational, descriptive studies into rigorous intervention research. more


Child Welfare: The Challenges of Collaboration Cover Child Welfare: The Challenges of Collaboration

Timothy Ross | $29.50

When youth in the child welfare system face problems such as juvenile delinquency, the agencies charged with their care often find that they do not have the capacity to act without the cooperation of other government departments. The trap gets tighter when parents have lost custody or are in the criminal justice system themselves. more



 

Meet the Author

harry hatry

Harry Hatry, author of Performance Measurement: Getting Results, Second Edition is a distinguished fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., where he directs the Institute's Public Management Program. He spoke about how performance measurement can improve service delivery:

Hatry: It's the attempt in a systematic way to regularly provide data to agency officials about the outcomes and the efficiency of their programs. That information should provide guidance for managers to improve, to find out where problems exist, to see where they are doing well and where they are not doing well. They can then take action and use later performance measurement reports to see if the desired outcomes occurred. more

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Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation
$29.50

Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax Cover

Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax
$26.50

cover of war and taxes

War and Taxes
$26.50

Kids Having Kids Cover

Kids Having Kids: Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy, Second Edition
$34.50

Subprime Mortgages

Subprime Mortgages
America's Latest Boom and Bust

$26.50

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The Nonprofit Almanac 2008
$39.50

Nonprofits and Business

Nonprofits & Business
$29.50

Asset Building and Low-Income Families

Asset Building and Low-Income Families
$29.50



 
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