Des Moines part of national effort to improve services

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The city of Des Moines has been selected as one of 16 added to Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities initiative, an effort to enhance the use of data and evidence in the public sector in order to address local issues. Des Moines’ selection comes as the growing national movement, launched in April 2015, reaches a benchmark of having 55 midsized cities working to use data and evidence to improve services for residents, inform local decision-making and engage citizens. Those cities count a total of 19 million residents and have annual budgets that exceed $63 billion. The initiative will partner with 100 cities on a rolling basis through 2018.