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Wonk Room’s Robert Gordon To Serve In Obama White House

By Faiz Shakir on Jan 19th, 2009 at 3:35 pm

Wonk Room’s Robert Gordon To Serve In Obama White House

The Wonk Room would like to congratulate Robert Gordon, who will serve in the White House Office of Management and Budget. The Obama transition team announced today that Robert will be Associate Director for Education, Income Maintenance and Labor at the OMB.

Robert was an original and frequent blogging contributor here at The Wonk Room, and his posts helped establish us as a leading policy rapid-response blog. You can read all of his blog posts here.

We wish Robert the best of luck and thank him for his contributions.

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stateofthedivision Says:

Congrats Robert! Now do what you can to end “pay for performance” in education. The nation saw what CEO incentive pay and commissions did to our financial sector.

Tell your OMB friends responsible for health care as well. I think teachers and doctors are as smart as Wall Street CEO’s. Think of the suboptimization coming, when they learn how to game the system.

One need only study the most pure form of executive incentive compensation, stock option grant awards. 30% of executive teams cheated, broke the law, to maximize their pay.

Extrinsic motivators distort any system. Don’t spread the poison, Robert.
January 19th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
jps Says:

I remember calling that office last month and asking what the plan was to get people off food stamps. The person I talked to couldn’t think of anything. She told me she was working on legislation for other offices. I can’t think of a better office to staff with a wonk.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:24 am
jps Says:

Oh, wait. (;
January 20th, 2009 at 9:27 am