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The Problem: The base pay for tipped workers in Washington, D.C., is a fraction of the minimum wage, making their income heavily reliant on unpredictable gratuities. The Solution: Initiative 82, which ...

The Problem: too many guns on the streets of Utica, New York. The Solution: an anonymous gun buyback program, with a premium paid for unregistered "ghost guns" that don't have serial numbers. Sounds ...

One of the great, underappreciated facts about our technology-driven age is that unintended consequences tend to outnumber intended ones. As much as we would like to believe that we are in control, ...