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State and Local Finance Data Disappears

Analysts and policymakers are losing their most consistent, thorough source of state and local finance data for 2001 and 2003. The US Census Bureau did not publish state-by-state data on local government finance for fiscal year 2001 and will not be publishing it for 2003, a practice begun in 1970. In lieu of this data, the Census Bureau is publishing local finance estimates for the country as a whole. However, the Census Bureau will report the state level data for 2002 through the Census of Governments Report, and this data will be functionally similar to what was available before the Bureau stopped publishing such information, according to the government agency.

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Digging Ourselves out of the $7 Trillion National Debt

The growing national debt and deficits as far as the eye can see prompt varied reactions.

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Corporate Tax Havens and the EITC

While the administration continues to push for tax cuts for corporations and the very wealthy, whose tax avoidance is estimated to cost the government $75 billion a year, it is also working to establish a rigorous pre-certification process for Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) recipients.

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Program Assessment And Budget Cuts Ahead

This Administration has not made reducing the size and effectiveness of government a stated goal; however, the strides that are being made to devolve responsibilities to the states and to privatize government functions, deregulate and limit government oversight, and defund government by reducing federal (and often state) revenue through huge tax cuts, make the words unnecessary. One new and potentially effective tool in this effort to delimit the role of the federal government is the “Program Assessment Rating Tool,” or “PART.”

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"PART" And The Federal Budget

There has been little public or media attention to the “Program Assessment Performance Tool” (PART) developed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), even though its explicit and primary purpose is to evaluate and tie program “performance” to budget appropriations. OMB Is also taking this effort very seriously. Why this sudden renewed attention to “government performance?”

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Using GPRA to Improve Environmental Quality and the Effectiveness of EPA - Background Briefing Organ

Prepared by: Shelley H. Metzenbaum 978-371-3099 smetzenbaum@aics.net The Opportunity

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OMB Watch Comments on New Performance Evaluation Tool

During the past three years, OMB Watch has sought to increase the participation of nonprofit groups in the implementation of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). On July 3, OMB Watch submitted comments to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on the recently issued Program Assessment Ratings Tool (PART) arising from the first meeting of the Performance Measurement Advisory Council.

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Measuring the Measurers: A Nonprofit Assessment of GPRA

This study examines the implementation of the federal government's primary performance measurement law, the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), from the perspective of the nonprofit community. First, it asks if GPRA matters, or should matter, to nonprofits. Second, it asks the extent to which the nonprofit community, or experts in nonprofit performance measurement, have influenced GPRA. CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Preface
Executive Summary
Introduction
Chapter One: GPRA's Implementation in Four Federal Agencies-A Qualitative Analysis

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Seven Years of GPRA: Has the Results Act Provided Results?

Ellen Taylor testified before the House Committee on Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology of the House Committee on Government Reform on "Seven Years of GPRA: Has the Results Act Provided Results?" Statement of Ellen Taylor Policy Analyst OMB Watch Before the House Committee on Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology of the House Committee on Government Reform On "Seven Years of GPRA: Has the Results Act Provided Results?" July 20, 2000

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OMB Watch Comments on Program Assessment Ratings Tool from OMB

The following are comments sent by OMB Watch to OMB on the Program Assessment Ratings Tool (PART) tool arising from the first meeting of the Performance Measurement Advisory Council. The comments are also available in Adobe Acrobat PDF

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