Is Progressiveism About Feeling Good or Doing Good?
Posted 04-17-2019 at 06:13 PM by jbgusa
https://www.city-data.com/forum/great...l#post54967488
Two recent headline articles,ThriveNYC was a mismanaged mess from the beginning (link) and With opaque budget and elusive metrics, $850M ThriveNYC program attempts a reset (link) highlight a serious problem with liberal or progressive policies. The intentions are always good; ThriveNYC's goal, as I understand it is to promote mental health in stressful and difficult times. Always laudable.
The problems are manyfold:
Two recent headline articles,ThriveNYC was a mismanaged mess from the beginning (link) and With opaque budget and elusive metrics, $850M ThriveNYC program attempts a reset (link) highlight a serious problem with liberal or progressive policies. The intentions are always good; ThriveNYC's goal, as I understand it is to promote mental health in stressful and difficult times. Always laudable.
The problems are manyfold:
- How do you measure results?
- How do you measure costs against benefits?
- How do you decide what programs to institute?
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