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    "title": "The Iron Law of Evaluation",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>\nThe The Iron Law of Evaluation (Rossi, 1987) is that the expected value of any net impact assessment of any large scale social program is zero.</p>\n<p>...</p>\n<p>Why does this happen? The simple answer is that in a largely-rich, largely-free country, with many existing (if confusing) private and public supports for low-income people, it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s just as easy to screw things up than to make things better, no matter how much you spend.\n</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/the-iron-law/\">The Iron Law \u00e2\u0080\u0093 spottedtoad</a></em></p>\n"
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