Lenny Mendonca
Lenny Mendonca, Senior Fellow at the Presidio Institute, is a former director of McKinsey & Company.
Lenny Mendonca, Senior Fellow at the Presidio Institute, is a former director of McKinsey & Company.
As Donald Trump turns to domestic tax reform, he should learn from progressive states like California, where the earned income tax credit and the minimum wage have reduced poverty and inequality, and … read more
US President Donald Trump did not accomplish much in his first 100 days. But, as a growing movement of progressive federalism demonstrates, he did unwittingly remind many Americans that the US Constit… read more
According to the conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley, robots will soon eat everyone’s job, and a universal basic income will become necessary. But this hypothetical future has not yet arrived, and p… read more
The year 2016 may be remembered as a time when populism returned to power in the US. But it may also be remembered as the start of a new era of progressive federalism, when state and local governments… read more
The US is a global outlier in tying much of its social safety net to employment, with social-welfare spending averaging just 16% of GDP, compared to 23% in Europe. With inequality and income distribut… read more
High-quality early childhood education is one of those rare issues that unites people of all social strata and across the political spectrum. But the consensus about the benefits – both for the childr… read more
To listen to America’s Republican presidential candidates, one might conclude that the US government can do nothing right. But a remarkable bipartisan consensus is emerging around an approach to major… read more
When Facebook’s founder and his wife announced plans to devote some $45 billion in Facebook shares toward making the world a better place, some critics wrote off the move as a public-relations ploy. I… read more
Digital platforms are transforming how labor markets operate and revolutionizing the nature of work. In many ways, this is a positive development, but it is also undermining the traditional employer-e… read more
