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Jan 15, 2025 | 
arnoldventures.org | Evan Mintz
What programs and policies actually work to improve the lives of the American people? Arnold Ventures’ Evidence and Evaluation team is starting the year by launching two new Request for Proposals (RFP) aimed at answering that critical question. The “Strengthening Evidence” RFP will fund rigorous randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluate innovative social programs and policies.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
arnoldventures.org | Evan Mintz
With elections in the rearview mirror and new representatives preparing to settle into Washington D.C., the partisan messaging that dominated so much political coverage for 2024 is now giving way to the bipartisan reality of federal lawmaking. While Republicans control both houses of Congress and the White House, narrow margins in the House and Senate mean that the new Republican majority will have to work with Democrats to move many pieces of legislation.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
arnoldventures.org | Evan Mintz
Q&A Topic Published Oct 22, 2024 As housing affordability has grown into a nationwide challenge, policymakers are pressed to find solutions that are effective at ensuring that people can live in places with access to jobs, education, and other opportunities.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
arnoldventures.org | Evan Mintz
Doctors recommend an annual physical as a regular check on personal health. But where do the hospitals go for their check-ups? If you’re Steward Health Care, you go to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. The private equity-backed company had grabbed attention for buying up hospitals and doctors’ groups, and then squeezing them to maximize profits.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
arnoldventures.org | Evan Mintz
Ambulance sirens are a well-known signal of a health care emergency. For John Arnold, out-of-control costs were the alarms signaling the emergency of a broken market that sparked AV’s health care research and policy work. In a candid exchange at the 12th annual Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy in New York City, John Arnold talked about how he and his wife, Laura, first began directing their philanthropic support toward research into health care affordability, and what that work looks like today.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
arnoldventures.org | Evan Mintz
This year’s Texas Tribune Festival brought together politicians, journalists, and thought leaders for three days filled with compelling and in-depth conversations. On the main stage, John Arnold, Arnold Ventures’ (AV) co-founder and co-chair, sat down with Texas Tribune co-founder and senior advisor, Evan Smith, to talk about the role of philanthropy in public policy, AV’s infrastructure work, and the near-universal desire among Americans to be charitable.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
houstonchronicle.com | Evan Mintz
Identify the problem, solve it until it’s fixed good enough or the kids stop complaining, then take a nap. That’s the boring dad strategy!VioletaStoimenova/Getty ImagesCan’t we just have a political system that is safe and reliable, like a good American-made car or a Seinfeld rerun? Thomas Barwick/Getty ImagesBoring dads don’t need hyped-up bad news at the end of a long day. We need a light beer. But that’s not what our news outlets and social media are serving up.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
texasmonthly.com | Evan Mintz |Rose Cahalan
An apocryphal quirk of Texas history claims that we have the right to subdivide into five distinct states, and reading the headlines in Texas Monthly may have you thinking that we’re on the verge of such a pentamerous shattering. Troops are at the border. An internal civil war wages among state leadership. A few Republicans have even put a fatwa on on H-E-B Chairman Charles Butt.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
arnoldventures.org | Evan Mintz
Politics may feel divided, but political reality means that any significant federal policy needs bipartisan buy-in. President Biden needs to embrace this reality in his upcoming State of the Union address, writes Arnold Ventures CEO and President Kelli Rhee in a Real Clear Policy op-ed. “After all, the key successes of Biden’s first term have largely been passed on a bipartisan basis,” Rhee writes.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
arnoldventures.org | Evan Mintz
The United States has seen an unsustainable growth in housing costs over the past decade. State leaders from across the nation came together at the 2024 National Governors Association Winter Meeting to discuss this burden on families, workers, businesses, and the broader economy. Charlie Anderson, Arnold Ventures’ executive vice president of infrastructure, took part in this event as governors shared evidence-based solutions to building faster, better, and at lower cost.
