{"id":272,"date":"2003-12-04T00:06:43","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T00:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:25","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:25","slug":"a_competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"A Competition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve blogged in the past about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopestreetgroup.org\" target=\"browser\">Hope Street Group<\/a> &#8211; a potentially damn interesting set of &#8217;emergent liberals&#8217; based here in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re hosting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopestreetgroup.org\/publications\/project_california.pdf\" target=\"browser\">competition<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>* Papers are due Friday, January 30, 2004. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><i>* Papers may be submitted in any of five topic areas: (1) budget and tax policy; (2) water  policy; (3) housing and\/or transportation policy; (4) energy policy; and (5) education  policy.      <\/p>\n<p>* Papers will be judged primarily on the extent to which they provide concise, well- substantiated, concrete ideas for overcoming political and financial barriers to  Opportunity Economics in California.  Opportunity Economics refers to the notion that  economic growth is a crucial precondition for expanding equal opportunity for all, and  also that such expansions of opportunity promote long-term prosperity.  For more  information, see ?Building the Opportunity Economy,? at  http:\/\/www.hopestreetgroup.org\/publications.htm.   <\/p>\n<p>* Five winners shall be chosen, one for each of the five topic areas.  A grand prize winner  shall be selected from among the five winning papers, and will receive a cash award of  $2,500.  A second prize winner shall also be selected from among the five winning  papers, and will receive $1,000.  The other three winning authors will each receive $500.    <\/p>\n<p>* The grand prize winner will have the opportunity to present his or her paper at a seminar  sponsored by the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check it out. I&#8217;m continually impressed by the level of dialog in the comments to this blog. If you&#8217;re a reader here, go write something then submit it.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll even get motivated to write something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve blogged in the past about the Hope Street Group &#8211; a potentially damn interesting set of &#8217;emergent liberals&#8217; based here in Los Angeles. They&#8217;re hosting a competition: * Papers are due Friday, January 30, 2004. * Papers may be submitted in any of five topic areas: (1) budget and tax policy; (2) water policy; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}