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The Operator's Manual - An Update of Chapter 4: Money
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 - 16:24
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 15:09
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
SUBJECT: Money
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Conversation with Authors: Dr. Phil Joyce on The Costs of Budget Uncertainty: Analyzing the Impact of Late Appropriations
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 - 12:50
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How does federal budgetary uncertainty impact government agencies and other sectors? What is the affect on the efficiency and effectiveness of government? Are we facing a fiscal cliff or slope? We will explore these questions and much more with Professor Phil Joyce, author of the new IBM Center report, The Costs of Budget Uncertainty: Analyzing the Impact of Late Appropriations.
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Mon, 01/21/2013
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How does federal budgetary uncertainty impact government agencies and other sectors? What is the affect on the efficiency and effectiveness of government? Are we facing a fiscal cliff or slope? We will explore these questions and much more with Professor Phil Joyce, author of the new IBM Center report, The Costs of Budget Uncertainty: Analyzing the Impact of Late Appropriations.
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From the Executive Director
Thursday, November 29th, 2012 - 15:30
The combination of the “fiscal cliff”—involving debts, deficits, budgets, taxes—combined with the opportunities facing the administration, as well as the increased power of the Internet, social media, and “Big Data,” place government leaders in uncharted waters that hold the potential for great challenges, but also great opportunities. Now more than ever, stakeholders in the success of government must come forward with creative approaches to solving seemingly intractable problems.
The Costs of Budget Uncertainty: Analyzing the Impact of Late Appropriations
Monday, November 12th, 2012 - 10:43
This report comes at an especially opportune time, calling attention to the increasingly unpredictable federal budget process and the many challenges it creates for efficient and effective management of federal operations. But even in this environment, federal managers must still deliver services and programs as effectively and efficiently as possible. What steps can they take to do so?
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Jonathan Breul to Retire as Executive Director of the IBM Center for The Business of Government
Friday, June 8th, 2012 - 13:30
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:Whitney ForsterIBM Media Relations(202) 551-9524wdforste@us.ibm.com
Jonathan Breul to Retire as Executive Director
of the IBM Center for The Business of Government
Dan Chenok Appointed as Successor
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Reform of the Federal IT Budget - Increasing Strategy, Decreasing Complexity
Monday, May 28th, 2012 - 17:32
Right now, those three years are FY2012 (the budget for which spending is currently happening); FY2013 (the year beginning this October 1, now under consideration by Congress regarding the president’s budget request); and FY2014 (the budget year agencies begin to plan for in the spring, submit to OMB in September, and carry out the request that ultimately emerges from the president in February). Then the three-year cycle begins anew.
Creating a Strategic Approach to Budget Decisions
Friday, May 25th, 2012 - 17:39
Our governing institutions must be reformed in order to meet the enormous tasks we face as a nation. At the core of any well-functioning government is a budget process that policymakers can use to make big decisions about resources in a rational, informed way:
Fixing the Rules of the Game
Monday, January 2nd, 2012 - 17:18
Monday, January 2, 2012 - 16:15
The Peterson-Pew Commission is comprised of pragmatic politicians and budget experts from both sides of the aisle, both sides of the Capitol, and both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. They didn’t set out to offer the usual radical solutions, such as constitutional amendments, removing entitlement spending, or combining the appropriations and authorization committees into a single process. Those proposals have been offered before and have gone nowhere.
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Colin R. Talbot, Professor of Government
I am sure you are already aware but three out of these proposals: fiscal rules and budget targets; multi-year budgets; and budgeting for performance; were also key planks of the reforms put in place by the British New Labour government between 1997 and 2010. as i have commented on frequently over the past 15 years, including as a specialist adviser to our Parliamentary Treasury Committee, these reforms proved much harder to maintain in practice than in rhetoric. This is not to say the attempt should not be made, but it would be useful to learn from lessons from what went wrong in the UK, as well as what went right.
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Super Committee's Failure May Mean Widespread Cuts to Health Programs
Monday, November 21st, 2011 - 23:58
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 22:20
Starting in 2013 Medicare, biomedical research, and public health programs will be at risk of substantial funding cuts due to the country's fiscal crisis. The two biggest expenses on the government tab, Medicaid and Medicare, will be spared, for the most part though. Medicaid, a matching federal-state funding program would not be affected by the automatic trigger, while Medicare would experience a 2% overall reduction, seen in payments to hospitals and providers.
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Kathleen Merrigan
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 - 12:01
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Working alongside Secretary Tom Vilsack, Merrigan oversees the day-to-day operation of USDA's many programs and spearheads the $149 billion USDA budget process.
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Sat, 12/31/2011
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Working alongside Secretary Tom Vilsack, Merrigan oversees the day-to-day operation of USDA's many programs and spearheads the $149 billion USDA budget process.
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Greetings, I happened on the Business of Government radio interview with Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan late one night and was immediately impressed by the quality of both the interviewer and the interviewee neither of whom I knew of till the break and names were given.
Dr Merrigan is one of the most verbally fluent, articulate coherent and informed government representative I have ever heard. Even though on my way to another radio program I stayed to hear the whole interview. Agriculture is in any event a topic I care about, and I am fortunate to live in a Berkshire County, MA, (Congressman Olver's district ) the community of which has a dedicated and progressive relationship to it's agriculture. Robin Van Eyn who created the first Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm, here in Sheffield, was a close friend and just today I had a conversation with some young people from the latest CSA: fairly recent college graduates who miraculosly have chosen to band together and start a farm in Sheffield.
I am deeply grateful for the younger generation who are turning to agriculture - many without prior family farms in their background. (Perhaps ignorance is bliss in this case!).
Thank you for providing this service. I will be exploring other topics
Ann M. Condon
Great Barrington
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