Often, governments, nonprofits, foundations, and associations have budgets to answer important questions but don’t know exactly what kind of study they need to answer them. I use $40,000 as an example ...

Earlier this week, I attended the Minnesota Evaluation Association ’s annual conference. In the morning, I had a conversation with a few other attendees about some of the challenges of performing quan ...

In a survey released this morning by Scioto Analysis, 16 of 31 economists agreed that a vehicle-miles-traveled fee would be a more efficient way to fund Ohio's roads than the motor-fuel tax. Earlier ...

One of the most important questions we have to answer when we are proposing a project to a client is “how long will it take?” This one question has major implications for project costs, it can inform ...

Last week, I attended Housing Mobility 2026, a two-day conference hosted by Mobility Works in Cleveland. The first day was a training institute for housing mobility staff, especially workers from ...

The top of the list is not a state at all, but the District of Columbia, where about one in five workers are employed by the federal government. This makes sense because DC is the nation’s capital and ...

We live in a post-welfare reform world. In the 1990s, President Bill Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich worked together to reform welfare in the United States. A large part of the bargain struck ...

Unsurprisingly, the states that would need the most money to end poverty are the states with the largest populations. There is a huge dropoff between Florida and Ohio both in terms of the amount of ...

On Wednesday, I went to a luncheon hosted by the Columbus Metropolitan Club on the topic of homelessness. The host posed a question to one of the panelists: what would it cost to end homelessness in ...

From this table, you can get an idea of which states rely the most on federal funding. For instance, let’s consider Alaska. Between national parks, conservation land, and military bases, 60% of Alaska ...

When an analyst approaches a problem and are trying to take an efficiency lens to it, she has two main options at her fingertips: cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis. Understanding ...