Abstract
Pay for Success as a Policy Tool
Highlights
As mayor of Salt Lake County, a job in which I represent the 1.1 million people who live in the Greater Salt Lake metro area, my job is to ask, What are we spending our money on? What is working for our residents—or not? What programs should be tweaked or stopped altogether? How can we do better? And how will we know if our efforts are working?
As mayor of Salt Lake County, the future I envision is one where our $1 billion budget goes primarily to programs that deliver on their promises, where the partisan divide playing out on the national level contrasts starkly with the competence of our local government, where citizens can trust that federal, state, and local tax dollars are working for them, and that their government delivers on its promises—in short, a future where the government pays for success
In 2011, while serving on the board of the United Way of Salt Lake (UWSL), I learned about the joint research being conducted on innovative interventions to improve early childhood learning by UWSL, Voices for Utah Children, and the Granite School District to measure the impact high-quality preschool has on some of our county’s most at-risk children
Summary
As mayor of Salt Lake County, a job in which I represent the 1.1 million people who live in the Greater Salt Lake metro area, my job is to ask, What are we spending our money on? What is working for our residents—or not? What programs should be tweaked or stopped altogether? How can we do better? And how will we know if our efforts are working?. As mayor of Salt Lake County, the future I envision is one where our $1 billion budget goes primarily to programs that deliver on their promises, where the partisan divide playing out on the national level contrasts starkly with the competence of our local government, where citizens can trust that federal, state, and local tax dollars are working for them, and that their government delivers on its promises—in short, a future where the government pays for success. Mayor McAdams, in prioritizing data-driven policymaking, has implemented Pay for Success elements throughout Salt Lake County government. Fraser Nelson entered Salt Lake County government as the Mayor’s Director of Data and Innovation— leading subsequent Pay for Success initiatives for the County—after Jeremy Keele’s transition to Sorenson Impact; Fraser serves as Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships for Sorenson Impact. Mayor Ben McAdams with Jeremy Keele and Fraser Nelson choose, we respond to the future that is barreling toward us
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