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Ideas or Economic DevelopmenJ 2011

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Nicholas Vincen Bowman, Naomi Berns ein, Benjamin Grush,Francesca Messinger and Cory Wynn

S I B E EGrayson Cooper

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Benjamin Daniels

A R S R E M P bZachary Mark De La Rosa

R U.S. P N -E F AAmmarah Mahmud

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A S N OSarah Whi ord and Francis Wong

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Promote Food Donations with Window StickersNicholas Vincent Bowman, Naomi Bernstein, Benjamin Grush, FrancescaMessinger and Cory Wynn - Brentwood School

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Social Impact Bonds for Early EducationGrayson Cooper, University o North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Allowing priva e inves men in he early-childhood educa ion sec or will narrow heachievemen gap and improve s uden per ormance while providing an atrac ive re-

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Social Security Bridge:Insurance for the Involuntarily RetiredBenjamin Daniels, Pomona College

Social Securi ys o cial re iremen age has lef millions o older Americans caugh

be ween unemploymen and re iremen . Social Securi y Bridge would close ha gapby providing a subsis ence level o income o involun arily re ired Americans.

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A Recycled Solution to a Rare Earth Metal ProblemZachary Mark De La Rosa, University o North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Governmen subsidies should be provided o corpora ions ha recycle rare ear h me als.

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Revisiting U.S. Procurementof Non-Emergency Food AidAmmarah Mahmud, University o Georgia

As he larges con ribu or o in erna ional ood aid, he Uni ed S a es should es ablish public-priva e par nerships o maximize he unds alloted or ood aid and providelong- erm s abili y o he coun ries i aids. This will help accomplish i s dual goals o gh ing hunger and promo ing developmen .

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Participatory Budgeting:Democratizing Local EconomiesRoss Mittiga, University o Florida

Par icipa ory budge ing (PB) is a sys em orien ed owards producing a comprehensiveor par ial discre ionary budge whose componen s are decided direc ly by memberso a communi y. Par icipa ry budge ing would allow American municipali ies o de-mocra ize heir budge ary process, puting ci izens in charge o priori izing spending or he issues ha mater mos o hem and heir communi y.

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Access and Inequality:The Cleveland Food Desert CaseJonathan Ro inson, The George Washington University

By s ra egically expanding public ranspor a ion rou es, municipal au hori ies can

improve he heal h and economy o Cleveland, Ohio, one o he Uni ed S a es mosdepressed urban areas.

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Municipal governmen s should incorpora e s ree cars in o heir exis ing public- ransi

in ras ruc ures as an al erna ive orm o ranspor a ion, a way o connec ing o a ci ys pas , and a mechanism or economic revi aliza ion.

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Through campus-based micro nance, s uden s can help overlooked en repreneurs

crea e jobs and s reng hen local economies.

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Ci ies ha acili a e car sharing among residen s will come ou ahead by reducing he nancial, environmen al, and social burdens o individual car ownership.

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