No Child Left Behind, the eighth reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, is 600-plus pages in length and contains programs that cost taxpayers $25 billion per year. The Office of Management and Budget has estimated that states are annually burdened with 7 million hours worth of paperwork as a result of No Child Left Behind. After the passage of No Child Left Behind, several states released calculations comparing the administrative cost of compliance to the amount of federal money they receive under the law. In 2005, … More
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No Child Left Behind, the eighth reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, is 600-plus pages in length and contains programs that cost taxpayers $25 billion per year. The Office of Management and Budget has estimated that states are annually burdened with 7 million hours worth of paperwork as a result of No Child Left Behind. After the passage of No Child Left Behind, several states released calculations comparing the administrative cost of compliance to the amount of federal money they receive under the law. In 2005, … More
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By Jim Harper
At a recent Cato event on transparency, I emphasized that there is no federal government “organization chart” published in a way computers can use. Here’s what I mean: Appendix C of the Office of Management and Budget’s Circular A-11 is the White House’s definitive public listing of agencies and bureaus, along with their OMB and [...]
There’s No Machine-Readable Government Org Chart is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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Over the past 50 years, 10 U.S. presidents have made annual budget requests to Congress, projecting deficits both big and small. But no other president compares to Barack Obama when it comes to the size and scale of the current budget deficit facing the United States. The country is facing an 8.3 percent estimated average national deficit of a two-term Obama administration — the biggest of the past 50 years. By comparison, the current estimate for Obama is nearly double the percentage under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush — and … More
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