"My conclusion: government can create jobs--it just doesn't often do it well."
Michael Grabell, "How Not to Revive an Economy," The New York Times, February 12, 2012.
As we take a look at Obama's 2013 budget proposal we should also take the time to review mistakes and successes from the first round of stimulus spending -- and hopefully make some corrections.
"Weatherization...was billed as low-hanging fruit of the clean-energy movement. But states are still sitting on roughly a billion dollars of unused grant money because of a tortured bureaucracy."
There's more money for subsidized employment like the TANF Emergency Fund, which tapped the creativity of states.
I wonder if we need our own modern-day Harry Hopkins -- to get things done faster and better
Bob Giloth has worked for nonprofits for thirty years with a focus on community economic development. As a practitioner and social investor he is interested in the preconditions and challenges of good strategy and implementation -- values, partners, timing, complexity, and mistakes.
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