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Indian Health Service – Action Needed to Ensure Equitable Allocation of Resources for the Contract Health Service Program, GAO-12-446, June 15, 2012 Managing for Results – A Guide for Using the GPRA Modernization Act to Help Inform Congressional Decision Making, GAO-12-621SP, June 15, 2012 [GPRA – Government Performance and Results Act of 1993]
CBO – New Evidence on the Tax Elasticity of Capital Gains: Working Paper 2012-09 “This study uses a large panel of tax returns from 1999 to 2008 to investigate how taxes affect the decision to realize gains. The study distinguishes the persistent effect of tax changes from the transitory effect. Similar to earlier studies in …
Raising the Excise Tax on Cigarettes: Effects on Health and the Federal Budget, June 2012 “The federal government spends roughly $1 trillion on health care programs each year, so it is easy to imagine that policies that promote a healthier population could have a significant impact on the federal budget. This study uses a policy …
Mail Online: “Spy planes able to photograph sunbathers in their back gardens are being deployed by Google and Apple. The U.S. technology giants are racing to produce aerial maps so detailed they can show up objects just four inches wide. But campaigners say the technology is a sinister development that brings the surveillance society a …
“In recent years, online tracking companies have begun to monitor our clicks, searches and reading habits as we move around the Internet. If you are concerned about pervasive online web tracking by behavioral advertisers, then you may want to enable Do Not Track on your web browser. Do Not Track is unique in that it …
