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There are more than 3,300 public housing authorities throughout the United States providing affordable housing to eligible low-income families, the elderly, and individuals with disabilities. This housing is principally provided through the administration of federally funded housing programs. The funding for these programs is inadequate to meet the growing need for affordable housing, requiring public housing authorities to find innovative ways to do more with less. A few public-sector organizations have turned to private-sector quality management practices in response to similar challenges. Lean thinking and Six Sigma are two popular quality initiatives found in the private sector. This paper explores whether lean thinking and Six Sigma can be successfully applied to public housing aut...
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Said action is what led [David Paterson] to praise [Brodsky] before making that "die in peace" joke last Friday. Brodsky said that the passing of this bill is indicative of how government is supposed to work. "There's a model here. We didn't yell at anybody. We didn't call anybody names," he said. "We used the instrumentalities of the government to get to the truth. We came up with new ideas, and we insisted on change and reform. We showed it can be done and we? do it again. We have been leading the way on public authority reform," said Silver. "I can think back to 2003 when we began a two-year investigation into the management, or should I say mismanagement, of many of our public authorities." Silver continued, "What was found was that the entities were not only taking on an extraord...
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Credit and especially debit card transactions are on the rise worldwide. Interchange fees are an integral part of the pricing structure of credit and debit card transactions. Indirectly paid by merchants to card issuers, interchange fees in most countries are set by credit and debit card networks. But in one country, Australia, the central bank is regulating interchange fees, and in several other countries and areas, including the European Union, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK, public officials are taking, or considering taking, a more hands-on regulatory stance. In the US, it is largely the court system that is debating interchange issues. One reason for recent interest in interchange fees in the US is a shift in retail payments away from checks. Research sponsored by the F...
