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678 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 8 (2018)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0678 and id is 1 raw text is: Evidence-Based Policy: The Movement, the Goals, the Issues, the Promise By RON HASKINS Keywords: evidence-building; evidence-based policy- making; social programs; social science E vidence is facts or other information that help us to determine whether something is true or false. When applied to programs designed to increase human well-being, evidence allows us to decide whether the program produces its intended impacts. For the past decade or two, both federal and state governments-and even several big cities-have been experiencing what might be called an evidence-based upris- ing that is helping them to select or develop effective social and educational programs and then improve them. This volume of The ANNALS is designed to provide a survey of the field of evidence-based practices and policy- making in articles written by some of its most notable practitioners. All the authors and the editor are fans of evidence-based policy, but most of us are well aware that we have miles to go before we can argue that the field has been proven to consistently improve the nation's policies and show clear progress in reducing the nation's social problems, most of which are complex and resistant to amelioration. Ron Haskins is a senior fellow and holds the Cabot Family Chair in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he codirects the Center on Children and Families. Haskins previously coch aired the Evidence-Based Policymaking Commission, appointed by Speaker Paul Ryan. He is the coauthor of Show Me the Evidence: Obama's Fight for Rigor and Evidence in Social Policy (Brookings Institution Press 2015) and the author of Work over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law (Brookings Institution Press 2006). Togetherwith Isabel Sawhill, Haskins was awarded the Moynihan Prize from the AAPSS in 2016 for being a champion of the public good and advocate for public policy based on social science research. Correspondence: RHASKINS@brookings.edu DOI: 10.1177/0002716218770642 ANNALS, AAPSS, 678, July 2018 8

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