For fifty years, many federal initiatives and national commissions set out to end hunger and improve nutrition in America. Each one generated its own data, evaluations, and research findings, and yet the problems remain entrenched. So at a time of renewed calls to action in publi… Read more

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In 2013, Michigan deployed an automated system to detect unemployment-insurance fraud. Over the next two years it wrongly accused roughly 40,000 residents at an error rate as high as 93%, and families lost homes, wages, and tax refunds while the cases dragged through the courts f… Read more