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To use AI tools effectively, local leaders must optimize documents and information for AI, implement guardrails, and rely on human expertise to evaluate risks and benefits.
Can economic growth really fix Social Security? Economic growth would bring revenue for Social Security in the short term but puts the system on the hook for higher benefit payments over time.Without improved public service delivery, women in developing countries can’t take advantage of economic opportunity In Pakistan, women’s lack of access to public transport directly hinders their ability to access jobs and lowers their monthly incomes.Linda Blumberg wins prestigious award for health research impact Linda’s receipt of the award honored research cited by Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts in the court’s decision in King v. Burwell.Five lessons from proposals to strengthen federal student aid How can we make the complex array of programs that distributed about $161 billion to students from 2014 to 2015 more effective?Three lessons for strengthening services for crime victims What prevents victim service providers from using research in their day-to-day work? How can they work with researchers to build the body of evidence in the field?No matter the intervention, pay for success programs are ambitious Calling experimental approaches "more ambitious than proven programs" undermines PFS’s enormous potential to make government more efficient.