Big-City Mayors Tap Grad Students for Their Teams

Governing: The idea came to them at a small dinner among friends. Torie Osborne, a deputy mayor of Los Angeles at the time, bemoaned the growth in homelessness in her city and the lack of staffing to deal with it.

"City governments are so starved in human resources. I don’t have a smart person to do the research I need," she said.

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