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New Resource Guide Provides Quick Access to ITPI Research

The guide includes links to more than two dozen resources, including reports, briefs, toolkits, and other publications.

Highlights

Public Services

ITPI & Local Progress Impact Lab Release New Report "Harnessing the Power of Procurement"

Advancing public policy goals through contracting for goods and services.

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Infrastructure

New Brief Looks at Efficiency

Efficiency can be effective--or extractive. A new brief from In the Public Interest explores the differences.

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What We Care About

A roll of "I Voted" stickers sits on a table

There are some things that can only be done together, and the only way to accomplish them is through government.

Democracy & Good Government

School chairs sit upside-down on the tables of a classroom

We believe a strong public education system is fundamental to a thriving democracy.

Education

A photo of a large highway bridge taken from below

The infrastructure that connects us together cannot be built without public investment and coordination across vast and complicated systems.

Infrastructure

A very bent but still attached parking meter

Privatization of public goods and services has touched everything from schools and libraries to parks and parking meters.

Privatization

Photo of garbage truck on residential street

Public services include a wide range of activities, so many that we tend to take them for granted.

Public Services