to limit exposure to risk by building, like a hedge-fund manager, a diversified portfolio,

Johnson and others wrote persuasively that this failure exemplified the need to reform how the federal government manages contracts for IT services.

To fight poverty, we have to see and study the barriers and figure out if they’re cultural, or social, or economic, or geographic, or political, and then go around them or through them so the poor aren’t cut off from benefits others enjoy.