Most policy choices are hard calls. This one is not.
Usually, information is scarce, facts ambiguous and values clash. Most times, competing equities are comparable, with compelling justifications supporting more than one available option. Urban development is a good example: we can't know in advance whether businesses really will move...
(11) Comments | Posted December 30, 2011 | 4:37 PM
The nuclear secret of child welfare is that most of the children in foster care should not be there. Most children in foster care are harmed more than they are helped by being taken from their families, and by being kept in foster care for too long. Children in foster...
(8) Comments | Posted October 18, 2011 | 2:28 PM
This is what passes for good news in D.C. social services.
The District government is congratulating itself because Denise Gibson finally has a place to live. According to a story in the Washington Post, Gibson will be one of the first residents of the newly-redeveloped...
(1) Comments | Posted September 27, 2011 | 2:54 PM
Could a lawyer have saved Alecia Wheeler's life? As the D.C. Council considers how to spend the $89 million surplus discovered recently by Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi, Ms. Wheeler's tragic death reminds us that pennies spent on public-interest lawyers can provide pounds of cure.
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(8) Comments | Posted September 19, 2011 | 3:26 PM
Just a few weeks ago, the D.C. Court of Appeals revealed that D.C.'s Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) housed one of its charges in a homeless shelter. When the youth turned 21, CFSA sent him into the world without a place to live or any means of affording one.
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(3) Comments | Posted September 20, 2012 | 11:06 AM