Mark Sheppard is a current Economics PhD student at CUNY Graduate Center. He is an alumnus of both the Harris School of Public Policy (MPP ’21) and Georgetown University (MA ’19). He is also a former Executive Board member of the Chicago Policy Review.As the F... More »
The jobs report was released today, October 2nd, with the preliminary estimate of the unemployment rate at 7.9%. Following last month’s better-than-expected jobs report, Senate Republicans unveiled a slimmed-down coronavirus relief bill. The more comprehensive... More »
Less than a month after the 2016 elections, a lame duck session of Congress passed the bipartisan Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing Act of 2016, granting federal agencies explicit authority to advance their missions in partnership with individuals, private and... More »
This piece was first published on April 3, 2013.You led a new initiative this election with the Obama campaign: online focus groups. How do you think this provided you a leg-up in the campaign?We had something called the online community, which was an ability ... More »
Cloud computing enables convenient access to a networks, servers, storage, applications, and services. In a cloud computing framework, shared resources can be rapidly provided on demand from individuals and organizations with minimal management or service prov... More »
Former Chief Information Officer for the City of Chicago, Brett Goldstein, discusses how Chicago is leading the way in using open data and predictive analytics to improve government effectiveness and transparency. More »
Under what conditions are dramatic policy reforms successful and sustainable? More »
An interview with an Obama researcher examines the power of words in politics. More »
This week, Julie Cooper ventures out to OpenGov Hack Night for a special edition of Chicago Policy Radio. More »
High speed rail is coming, but where should it go? More »