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After a years-long drought of new compelling policy ideas from either party at the national level, it is instructive to recall how many influential 1980s and 1990s reform programs on welfare, education, job training and economic development emerged from state capitals, several of them controlled by Republican chief executives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Governors Could Be Key to GOP Resurgence | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

The Kremlin wants to engineer its own Silicon Valley. In a plan that was revealed in February, the Russian high-tech haven will come complete with new-wave architecture and all the comforts of a resort, a place for Russian geniuses to get together and invent the biggest thing since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Russian Silicon Valley Spur Tech Innovation? | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

The Kremlin's answer to that question, however, does not exactly jibe with the liberal culture of Silicon Valley. In his Vedomosti interview, Surkov acknowledged that Russia is an innovation "vacuum" in a field of dynamic economies and that it needs a breakthrough soon to avoid stagnation. But when prodded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Russian Silicon Valley Spur Tech Innovation? | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

The Haiti cash-for-work program, which is expected to last through the spring, has employed more than 35,000 locals since it began early this month, at a cost of about $175,000 a day. (Workers earn about $4.50 a day, slightly more than Haiti's minimum wage, UNDP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Workfare Help Resurrect Quake-Ravaged Haiti? | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

In Carrefour-Feuilles, at least, cash-for-work also encourages local entrepreneurship. Much of the recyclable waste collected from the rubble there is used to make long-burning fuel bricks for cooking, manufactured with equipment workers helped design and build. The venture is an economic engine for the bidonville and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Workfare Help Resurrect Quake-Ravaged Haiti? | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

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