Jim Nussle, the CEO and president of the Credit Union National Association (CUNA), last summer teamed up with Peter Orszag to write Moneyball for Government.

According to the Moneyball Principles, government at all levels should help improve outcomes for young people, their families and communities by:

• Building evidence about the practices, policies and programs that will achieve the most effective and efficient results so that policymakers can make better decisions;
• Investing limited taxpayer dollars in practices, policies and programs that use data, evidence and evaluation to demonstrate they work; and
• Directing funds away from practices, policies, and programs that consistently fail to achieve measurable outcomes.