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Katherine Barrett

New York
As seen in: Substack, Taylor & Francis Online, Biomed Central (BMC), Government Technology, JD Supra, GOVERNING, Government Executive, KTOO Public Media (Juneau, AK), The Pew Trusts, Urban Institute and
Principals: Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene. A husband and wife team who research, write about, and analyze state and local governments. greenebarrett.com
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Government’s Missing Rear-View Mirror

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By Katherine Barrett, Richard Greene
| GOVERNING Verified
But here’s our problem. After some time passes and we want to refer again to our original discovery, it’s often the case that we can’t find out what’s happened to it. Was it a success? A failure? Someplace in between? Consider new technological innovations. There’s often lots of excitement in a city, county or state that has invested lots of money in a high-tech solution designed to save time and effort.
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The Power of Performance Audits

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By Katherine Barrett, Richard Greene
| GOVERNING Verified
That led us to a few polite queries, which uncovered the sad truth — they were pretty much unaware of the existence of performance audits altogether. We believe, modestly, that we may make as good or better use of performance audits in our writing as anyone else out there. Not only do they help us uncover stories about individual governmental entities, they also have aided us in identifying trends across a wide swath of cities, counties and states.
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The Archaic Licensure Laws that Hold Back Workers

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By Jared Brey Verified, Katherine Barrett, Richard Greene
| GOVERNING Verified
Midway through the last century, only one in 20 American workers were required to have an occupational license to ply a trade. Today, roughly one out of every five workers must hold a government-issued license to earn a living. Much has changed over those decades, including where people live, the jobs they do and the tools they use. Rather than keep pace with this change, governments reacted by creating a patchwork of state laws that determine who can do which jobs.
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