Editor's note: Kansas's failed experiment offers lessons not just for other states considering public-policy changes, but for employers taking on a project such as implementing a wellness program or changing employee financial behaviors.

(Bloomberg View) — When a governor announces an economic theory as a solution to a state's fiscal problems, while challenging all comers to observe the results, that's something I want to pay attention to.

And so for the past five years, I have been watching the public-policy experiment in Kansas with great fascination.

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