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...report “is a user-friendly organization of scientific data and economic data that gives us ideas that we can actually work on and move forward on,” said Melvin J. Neufeld, Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives, at Monday’s conference. “It’s more than theory, in other words...
...Neither Neufeld nor Ruth L. Kagi—a representative in the Washington State House of Representatives who also spoke at the conference—promised implementation of the report, but both promised to try to make it part of the legislative process in their states and others...
...Neufeld echoed these sentiments, and, citing longterm effects of childhood development on economic competitiveness, crime rates, and health care costs, stressed the importance of grounding policies in research...
...When I looked at this report...I realized this isn’t rocket surgery, it’s brain science,” Neufeld said, prompting laughter from the audience. “In Kansas, we’ve put a pretty good emphasis particularly on the health care side and the policies we do are scientifically and data-driven policies, and this document helps us get there...
...prosecutors have been so helpful. In the program's early days, its attorneys were often told by prosecutors that evidence was not available when, in fact, it was. "We took people's word and it turns out we couldn't," Neufeld says. But they have learned from the past, and nowadays the team takes extra steps to ensure it that evidence is retrievable. They've also come to rely on and trust their dedicated and highly motivated staff. "I couldn't think of a job that I would rather be doing," says Potkin, who has been with the project since...