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Could the Recovery Act help reinvent government?

Publication: Nation's Cities Weekly
Publication Date: 24-AUG-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
If you think the Obama administration's $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is just one big government boon-doggle, check out some top regional implementation strategies.

Kansas City, Mo., for example. A big infusion of stimulus funds is being focused on a newly dubbed "Green Impact Zone," a 150-block area of the inner city long plagued by poverty, violence, abandonment and joblessness.

The goal is nothing less than turning around every negative indicator in an area that's long been a glaring exception to the Kansas City region's general prosperity--notwithstanding its proximity to major roads and a large health sciences cluster.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) gets credit for conceiving the Green Impact Zone idea. But the entire metropolitan region stepped in--the Mid-America Regional Council, city...

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