Federal Formula Programs
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 40
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Author: United States. General Accounting Office
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. General Accounting Office
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 52
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2003-02-24
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0309087104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2000, the federal government distributed over $260 billion of funding to state and local governments via 180 formula programs. These programs promote a wide spectrum of economic and social objectives, such as improving educational outcomes and increasing accessibility to medical care, and many are designed to compensate for differences in fiscal capacity that affect governments' abilities to address identified needs. Large amounts of state revenues are also distributed through formula allocation programs to counties, cities, and other jurisdictions. Statistical Issues in Allocating Funds by Formula identifies key issues concerning the design and use of these formulas and advances recommendations for improving the process. In addition to the more narrow issues relating to formula design and input data, the book discusses broader issues created by the interaction of the political process and the use of formulas to allocate funds. Statistical Issues in Allocating Funds by Formula is only up-to-date guide for policymakers who design fund allocation programs. Congress members who are crafting legislation for these programs and federal employees who are in charge of distributing the funds will find this book indispensable.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2001-09-07
Total Pages: 101
ISBN-13: 0309075807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe workshop was a direct outgrowth of a previous study by the CNSTAT Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas. That panel, established under a 1994 act of Congress, began its work with a very specific mission: to evaluate the suitability of the U.S. Census Bureau's small-area estimates of poor school-age children for use in the allocation of funds to counties and school districts under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. In carrying out their assignment, panel members came to realize that the properties of data sources and statistical procedures used to produce formula estimates, interacting with formula features such as thresholds and hold-harmless provisions, can produce consequences that may not have been anticipated or intended. It also became evident that there is a trade-off between the goals of providing a reasonable amount of stability in funding from one year to the next and redirecting funds to different jurisdictions as true needs change. In one instance, for example, the annual appropriation included a 100 percent hold-harmless provision, ensuring that no recipient would receive less than the year before. However, there was no increase in the total appropriation, with the result that new estimates showing changes in the distribution of program needs across areas had no effect on the allocations. Choosing the Right Formula provides an account of the presentations and discussions at the workshop. The first three chapters cover the overview, case studies, and methodological sessions, respectively. Chapter 4 summarizes the issues discussed in the roundtable and concluding sessions, with emphasis on the identification of questions that might be addressed in a panel study.
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is one of two reports being published ... to discuss the impact of Census 2000 data on the allocation of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) resources. This report ... details how and why funding allocations have shifted between jurisdictions over the past 10 years."--P. v.
Author: Iman Poernomo
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2005-06-21
Total Pages: 726
ISBN-13: 9780387237596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monograph details several important advances in the direction of a practical proofs-as-programs paradigm, which constitutes a set of approaches to developing programs from proofs in constructive logic with applications to industrial-scale, complex software engineering problems. One of the books central themes is a general, abstract framework for developing new systems of programs synthesis by adapting proofs-as-programs to new contexts.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Goldenkoff
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 1437919022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fed. gov¿t. has annually distributed over $300 billion in fed. assistance through grant programs using formulas driven in part by census population data. The U.S. Census Bureau puts forth tremendous effort to conduct an accurate count of the nation's population, yet some error in the form of persons missed or counted more than once is inevitable. Because many fed. grant programs rely to some degree on population measures, shifts in population, inaccuracies in census counts, and methodological problems with population estimates can all affect the allocation of funds. This testimony discusses: how census data are used in the allocation of fed. formula grant funds; and how the structure of the formulas and other factors can affect those allocations. Illus.
Author: United States. Office of Management and Budget
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 1224
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