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Welcome to brookings. My name is ron haskins, im the codirector along with Richard Reeves of the center on children and family serving brookings. Today we are releasing the 29th volume of the future of children. When i read that and we added these up, i almost died of exhaustion. It takes a lot to put these volumes up weve been doing this 10 or 11 years. This is the 27th policy brief. We have produced a lot of work. In this volume in policy brief we addressed vital issues of how to achieve broadscale impacts with social programs. We focused for several years on evidencebased policy, on developing programs that high quality evaluations show are capable of producing impacts on important child and family outcomes. The goal we are promoting today is to ensure highquality programs could have a broad range of impacts. We are trying to help as Many Community as possible to build up ....
committed. there are a whole host of influences on public policy and i spent 20 years in congress working on such things. i think one of the most important, if not the most important influence on policy matters is evidence. evidence for or against a proposition. a lot of people are skeptical of that these days. that skepticism isn t unwarranted, but i would caution against being too much of a synic. people see the partisan fights and think that nothing can move, knowing can do gone. ideology is not a bad thing, it s not a dirty world, it s a way to order the world in a cohesive cohesive floss philosophy. you work on important policy issues that affect a huge number of people, even in ideological polarizing times, so many good things that can make a huge difference in people s lives actually can get done. and i think that this is very, very important. there are massive areas of policy that were changed because there was almost overwhelming evidence around a policy change ....
committed. there are a whole host of influences on public policy and i spent 20 years in congress working on such things. i think one of the most important, if not the most important influence on policy matters is evidence. evidence for or against a proposition. a lot of people are skeptical of that these days. that skepticism isn t unwarranted, but i would caution against being too much of a synic. people see the partisan fights and think that nothing can move, knowing can do gone. ideology is not a bad thing, it s not a dirty world, it s a way to order the world in a cohesive cohesive floss philosophy. you work on important policy issues that affect a huge number of people, even in ideological polarizing times, so many good things that can make a huge difference in people s lives actually can get done. and i think that this is very, very important. there are massive areas of policy that were changed because there was almost overwhelming evidence around a policy change ....
next a former house speaker paul ryan talks about evidence faced policymaking and then joins a panel discussion on the issue. this is an hour and 20 minutes. morning everybody. thank you for coming out this morning. i want to thank people for being here because events like this can be quite dry. so to see a group of people here to attend it means you are all committed to this cause. and it is important that you are committed. there are a whole hosts of nuan influences. i spent years working in congress. that skepticism is not unwarranted. i would caution it. people see this massive partisan polarizing archaeological site and they get the sense that nothing could happen or nothing can get done. ideology is not a bad thing. it is a way to order the world into a coherent philosophy. i consider myself an ideology. when you take your gaze away from the larger fights of the day. you send up on policy issues that affects huge number of people. even in ideology polarizing tim ....