July 28, 2010
Idea of the Day: Require Government to Set and Work Toward Achieving Clear Goals
The Office of Management and Budget should work with agencies to accomplish their High Priority Performance Goals.

July 27, 2010
Idea of the Day: A Better-Run Government Will Increase Public Confidence
A better-run government will increase public confidence in public institutions.

July 26, 2010
Idea of the Day: The Stone Soup Clean Energy and Climate Bill
Senate committees have reviewed or voted on many of the existing clean energy and climate bills. Combining their provisions into a single bill should make it easier to draft the bill and build support for the overall package. Think of it as “The Stone Soup Clean Energy Bill.”

July 23, 2010
Idea of the Day: Tackle the AIDS Epidemic by Investing in Antipoverty Programs
A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study shows high rates of HIV infection in poverty-stricken neighbors, highlighting the need to invest in antipoverty programs.

July 22, 2010
Idea of the Day: Addressing Individual Health Needs in a Public Health Disaster
The secretary of HHS should be responsible for meeting the health care needs of individuals that arise from a public health disaster.

July 21, 2010
Idea of the Day: Extend Stimulus Clean Energy Provisions
As Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) continues putting together a climate and clean energy bill he should include provisions that will extend and build off Recovery Act programs.

July 20, 2010
Idea of the Day: Press for Changes to Afghan Electoral Law
The United States and the international community form the primary source of funding for Afghanistan’s election activities. They need to demand reforms that will make their investments worthwhile.

July 19, 2010
Idea of the Day: Empower Afghanistan's Parliament
U.S. priorities for reforms in Afghanistan's parliamentary-presidential relationship should include greater parliamentary checks on senior appointments in addition to expanded support for parliamentary training programs on budgetary review and oversight.

July 16, 2010
Idea of the Day: Change How Aid Is Distributed to Afghanistan
Current international funding practices in Afghanistan do not contribute to the medium- to long-term sustainability of the Afghan state.

July 15, 2010
Idea of the Day: Reassess Afghanistan's Constitutional Structure
The United States and its international allies should press for a constitutional loya jirga, or new international conference, modeled on the 2001 Bonn process.

July 14, 2010
Idea of the Day: Sufficient Resources to Respond to Public Health Threats
The secretary of HHS should identify and make recommendations to Congress as necessary for sufficient funds to ensure that HHS has capacity and capability to undertake both short-term and long-term public health efforts.

July 13, 2010
Idea of the Day: Robust and Effective Health-Monitoring Systems
Under CAP's Public Health Response Plan the assistant secretary for health shall ensure that current federal, state, and local health monitoring, surveillance, and reporting systems are assessed for effectiveness and robustness, and then make the recommendations necessary to have them brought up to the standards needed to ensure the protection of public health.

July 12, 2010
Idea of the Day: The Assistant Secretary for Health Should Manage Public Health Threats
Whenever there is a situation with potential to threaten public health, the first health contact should be the assistant secretary for health.

July 9, 2010
Idea of the Day: Set Up Dedicated Innovation Units to Improve Government
Government agencies around the world are making dedicated teams responsible for policy and program innovation. These teams are often small, but have specific responsibility to drive forward innovative practices.

July 8, 2010
Idea of the Day: Shape the Knowledge Field to Support What Works
The government needs to better orchestrate knowledge about what works.

July 7, 2010
Idea of the Day: Design Funding Models that Encourage Scaling
There should be new investment models that can take projects and ideas through successive stages, with different types of finance at each stage.

July 6, 2010
Idea of the Day: Develop Markets for Social Outcomes
We need to develop more effective markets for social solutions. That means explicit contracts that reward the achievement of social outcomes, such as better educational results or longer lives.

July 2, 2010
Idea of the Day: Mandate Mediation in Foreclosure Proceedings
More states should make available automatic mortgage mediation programs.

July 1, 2010
Idea of the Day: Help Russia Develop a “Contract-Intensive” Economy
Nations with “contract-intensive” economies, in which individuals have opportunities to participate in the market, are less likely to engage each other in fatal conflicts than democracies that lack such economies.