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    How Can You Bring Innovation To Government Services? Follow Users

    NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jennifer Pahlka, founder and executive director of Code for America, about what it takes to bring innovation to government.
    by Samantha Raphelson Mar 30, 2017 2 minutes
    Code for America founder and Executive Director Jennifer Pahlka speaks Nov. 10 at<em> The New York Times</em> DealBook Conference at Lincoln Center in New York City.

    Every recent president has promised to innovate the way government works, and this week, the Trump administration announced its plan to do the same.

    The initiative is called the White House Office of American Innovation. Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, will lead a team that includes business executives with little or

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