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The 2020 Census conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau revealed significant undercounts in certain regions and demographic groups, such as Black or African American, Hispanic persons, young children, and renters. The COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges impacted the accuracy of the census counts, raising concerns about fund allocation and data uses. The Bureau is planning over 50 research projects to improve the design of the 2030 Census, focusing on public engagement, data collection strategies, and operational improvements to address coverage errors and enhance accuracy. Stakeholders have highlighted the importance of mitigating challenges and improving data quality for the upcoming census, with recommendations to enhance resiliency and prioritize evaluating and reporting on data quality. The report is available on the GAO website for further information. [Extracted from the article]

The document discusses the Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program (PEP) and the Population Estimates Challenge Program (PECP), which provide annual population and housing unit estimates for state and local governments. The PECP allows governments to challenge these estimates, with the Bureau revising estimates in response to challenges. The Bureau made changes to its methodology following the 2020 Census, including using a blended base for estimates. Ongoing research projects aim to improve population estimates, with feedback from the public being incorporated to enhance the PECP process. [Extracted from the article]

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report evaluating the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Office of the Executive Secretariat (OES) and its handling of correspondence. The report examines OES's policies and practices, including how they receive and log correspondence. OES receives correspondence through various channels and processes an average of 727 pieces of correspondence from January to July 2023. The report states that OES has policies and procedures in place that align with internal control standards and recently updated its standard operating procedures to improve response times. The full report can be found on the GAO website. [Extracted from the article]

The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report on the 2020 Census, focusing on how the Bureau addressed unexpected results and developed annual population estimates. The report highlights two programs, the Post-Census Group Quarters Review and the Count Question Resolution, which were used to address unexpected results and challenges in enumerating group quarters populations. The report also discusses changes in the Bureau's methodology for developing annual population estimates, including the use of a "blended" population base that incorporates data from sources other than the decennial census. The new methodology has been supported by census stakeholders. The report provides valuable insights into the operational issues faced during the 2020 Census and the measures taken to ensure accurate population counts. [Extracted from the article]

The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted a study on compliance with lobbying disclosure requirements and found that most lobbyists provided documentation for key elements of their disclosure reports, but there were instances of noncompliance. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia has been working to resolve noncompliance. The GAO's report provides more detailed information on the study's methodology and results. Additionally, the report discusses the findings of a review of lobbying disclosure reports filed with the Senate, which found that lobbyists generally complied with reporting requirements. The report also provides information on the enforcement efforts of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia and the Justice Against Corruption on K Street Act of 2018 (JACK Act). The report concludes by stating that no violations of the disclosure requirements were identified in the performance audit conducted by the GAO. [Extracted from the article]

This document is a report to congressional committees on the characteristics and administration of the Federal Wage System (FWS) and General Schedule (GS) pay systems in the United States. The FWS determines the pay of federal blue-collar employees based on comparisons with private sector jobs in specific areas, while the GS pay system covers white-collar employees and includes across-the-board and locality-based pay adjustments. The report provides an overview of the FWS and GS pay systems, describes the process for administering the FWS, and discusses challenges in the wage survey and wage schedule processes. The goal of the FWS is to ensure wage equity for federal employees in trade, craft, and manual labor occupations, while the GS pay system aims to reduce pay gaps between federal and nonfederal employees. The document also mentions proposals to align the geographic boundaries of FWS wage areas with GS locality pay areas, and the role of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Department of Defense (DOD) in administering the FWS. Both FWS and GS employees have various pay flexibilities available to them, such as recruitment and retention incentives. The report concludes by stating that the draft report was provided to the Secretary of Defense and the Director of OPM for review and comment. The document also provides contact information for the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and outlines their mission to support Congress in its oversight of federal programs and provide objective and reliable information to improve government performance. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on federal agencies, including the Department of Transportation, Federal Communications Commission, and Food and Drug Administration, addressing regulatory challenges posed by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence-enabled medical devices. It highlights the need for clearer communication from the FDA to Congress regarding specific legislative changes required to regulate these technologies effectively, potentially impacting public health benefits.

The article focuses on options for enhancing congressional oversight of the executive branch rulemaking process and establishing a U.S. Congressional Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). Topics discussed include the identification of various options, potential tradeoffs, and considerations for Congress in strengthening its role in overseeing federal rulemaking and creating a Congressional OLC.

The article presents a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office on enhancing congressional oversight of executive branch rulemaking and establishing a Congressional Office of Legal Counsel. Topics discussed include options for creating a new entity, revising the regulatory process, and altering existing functions, with potential tradeoffs such as increased costs and added complexity to the rulemaking process.

The article presents a report from the U.S. General Accountability Office (GAO) on public debt outlook for 2023. The report identifies factors affecting the capacity for economic growth and debt repayment of U.S. territories including Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and Samoa. It examines the restructured debt obligations of Puerto Rico, capital markets access of Guam, pension funding in Virgin Islands, market access and financial obligations of Mariana Islands.

This report from the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed quarterly lobbying disclosure reports filed for the third and fourth quarter of 2021 and the first and second quarters of 2022. It determined the extent to which lobbyists can demonstrate compliance with disclosure requirements, identified challenges or potential improvements to compliance that lobbyists report, and describes efforts of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia in enforcing compliance.

The article states that according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the U.S. Census Bureau must improve cost and schedule management for upcoming censuses. It mentions that the majority of spending for the 2020 census was allocated to total operations, infrastructure, and information technology, and the estimated cost was lower than the Bureau's October 2017 estimate.

The article states that according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, federal agencies tend to release more rules, including those of significant economic impact, during presidential transition periods, and throughout the administrations of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, this pattern persisted without deviation. It mentions that not meeting any timing requirement of the Congressional Review Act was found by the report on economic rules issued during the Trump administration.

The article discusses the results of a study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on the implementation of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES) by government agencies to prevent the effect of COVID-19 pandemic. Topics mentioned include the assessment of tools, plans, and policies used by agencies to determine and design the CARES flexibilities, the initiative of agencies to evaluate the impacts of CARES flexibilities, and the provisions of CARES Act.

The article presents the U.S. Government Accountability Office which determines the extent to which lobbyists can demonstrate compliance with disclosure requirements. It identifies challenges or potential improvements to compliance that lobbyists report, and describes the efforts of U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia in enforcing Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995. compliance.

The article highlights a report which focuses on the Bureau's plans for protecting the privacy of respondent data, and its post-data collection activities to assess data quality. To describe the Bureau's plans for protecting the privacy of respondent data for the 2020 Census. It discusses that the Bureau is required by law to protect respondent confidentiality; and mentions that the Bureau implemented a new disclosure avoidance method in its 2020 Census redistricting data.

The article presents a report of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, which reveals that the Census Bureau executed its most labor-intensive field data-collection activity through several area census offices, relying on managers of these offices (ACOM) to oversee field work and ensure its timely completion. It mentions Bureau has managed its field data collection operations at the local level for the 2020 Census; and automation to the Bureau's pandemic response.

The article presents the discussion on Congress passed and the President signed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act. Topics include Puerto Rico's future capacity for debt repayment depends primarily on the outcomes of the ongoing debt restructuring process; ability for generating sustained economic growth and the disbursement of federal funding; and creating economic growth and its ability for managing the pension liabilities.

The article examines the extent to which the U.S. Census Bureau (Bureau's) innovations to the 2020 Census helped the Bureau achieve its cost and quality goals. Topics include role of innovations to gauge the cost and quality of the 2020 Census while informing decisions about future censuses; information on how use of technology aided the productivity of the Bureau's field operations; and development of automated tools designed to manage follow-up with nonresponding households efficiently.

The article reports that several lobbyists provided documentation for key elements of their disclosure reports to demonstrate compliance with the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995. Topics include examines that under the Justice Against Corruption on K Street Act of 2018, lobbyists are required to report certain criminal convictions.

The article presents the discussion on GAO reviewing eleven Executive Order (EO) with five significant Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules and six economically significant Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rules. Topics include establishing requirements for chemical risk management programs; and associated with analyzing regulatory alternatives, assessing important effects, and providing transparency.

The article presents a report of United States. Government Accountability Office recommending the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to assist the agencies. Topics include the use of OPM Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) data to analyze the key drivers of veterans' retention, a tool for collecting employees' perceptions of their federal work experiences.

The article presents a report of the U.S. Government Accountability Office recommending the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to enhance efforts for employment of disabled people. Topics include that OPM should track and report retention data; and the Small Business Administration should assess training, and reasonable accommodation efforts.

The article presents a study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on how the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is protecting federal employee whistleblowers, particulary the probationary employees. Also cited are the extent probationary staff filed reprisal complaints or whistleblower disclosures, the termination of probationary workers who filed complaints, and GAO's suggestion to OSC to require whistleblowers to reveal their employment status.

The article presents a U.S. Government Accountability Office report focusing on the implementation of Program Management Improvement Accountability Act of 2016. It mentions about steps taken by Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Office of Personnel Management, and agencies to implement act. It also examines the extent to which OMB provided methods for agencies to measure and assess the results of act.

The article offers information on a report on challenges to equal employment opportunity in the Department of Homeland Security by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Topics discussed include lacks performance metrics for tracking; problems with supervision/management, lack of advancement opportunities, and lack of alternate work schedules; and compliance with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requirements.

The article reports that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which administers the federal retirement program, identified three root causes for retirement processing delays which involves continuing reliance on paper-based applications, insufficient staffing, and incomplete applications. It informs that OPM provides assistance to agencies through guidance, training, communication through liaisons and email, and error reports.

The article offers information on the lobbyists, provided documentation for key elements of their disclosure reports to demonstrate compliance with the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (LDA). It mentions the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act (HLGOA) also increased civil penalties and added criminal penalties for failure to comply with lobbying disclosure requirements; and also mentions that this methodology allows us to generalize some elements to the population of LD-2 reports.

The article discusses the actions needed to enhance the processing of whistleblower disclosure and prohibited personnel practice (PPP) cases. Topics mention including the OSC's process for referring and reviewing of allegations, U.S. Congress who enacted statutory changes to provide additional safeguard to the employees of OSC and reviewing the OSC's electronic case management system.

The article focuses on the U.S. Government Accountability Office report on "Opportunities Exist to Enhance Strategic Use of Special Payments." Topics discussed includes supporting of mission-critical skills gap areas by Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCO) agencies, training of agency managers would improve the agency's ability to effectively use special payment authorities, and strategies to improve the student loan repayment program.

The article presents a study conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine the measures that are required to streamline the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) concerning conversion requests for political positions. GAO found that 55 of the 78 requests entertained by OPM did not offer enough information to the former, which had to obtain and review documentation directly from the agencies involved.

The article analyzes the compliance of lobbyists with the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) of 1995 by the U.S. Government Accountability Office for 2016. Topics mentioned include the estimated number of lobbyists who filed needed reports for the period, failure of some lobbyists to round their income or expenses as required by the LDA, and those who found the need to disclose executive agency positions and paid congressional internships as not clear.

The article discusses the study conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding federal telework. GAO identifies the reported benefits and costs associated with federal agency telework programs and assessed the extent to which selected agencies have supporting data. GAO suggests that the director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must include cost saving questions in telework data calls and provide clarifying guidance.

The article presents study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) which determine the lobbyist role in demonstrating auditing compliance in accordance with the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (LDA). The findings reveals the challenges and potential improvements to compliance by lobbyists, lobbying firms and registrants and the available resources and authorities to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia (USAO). It also outlines the USAO efforts in enforcing LDA.

The article discusses a study by the U.S. Government Accountability office (GAO) regarding key areas related to human capital management where the U.S. government has taken some actions. Topics include recommendation by GAO to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) regarding skills gaps in occupations; guidance by OPM for improving performance management; and decline in employee engagement levels in government agencies.

The article presents a study conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on need of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to manage dual compensation Waiver Data. The study identifies trends of OPM analysis in the reasons for waiver requests and provides guidance to agencies. The GAO recommends the use of dual compensation waivers by government agencies and establish policies for maintaining waiver documentation.

The article talks about a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office to check the relative performance of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) between August 2011-2014 using performance metrics of the U.S. Veterans' Benefits Act of 2010. Topics discussed include cases resolved by DOL under the U.S. Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, satisfaction among DOL respondents, and DOL's investigation time of closed cases.

The article reports on the impact of the 2013 U.S. government shutdown (SD) on the Energy (DOE), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Transportation (DOT) departments. Topics discussed include the delays and disruptions on operations, grants, and contracts during the SD, and the estimated 0.3 reduction in percentage points on real gross domestic product (GDP) growth due to the SD. Also mentioned are the value of these departments' prior plans for potential SD in managing its uncertainties.

The article presents the results of a study carried out by the government agency Government Accountability Office (GAO) about the use of paid administrative leave in the U.S. The study found that government agencies, such as the Department of Defense and the Department of Interior, have the authority to grant paid administrative leave. GAO suggests that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) should create guidance on the recording and reporting of paid administrative leave.

A letter is presented from Yvonne D. Jones, Director Strategic Issues in the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to Thomas R. Carper Chairman, Tom Coburn Ranking Member Committee on U.S. Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and Darrell Issa Chairman of Oversight and Government Reform House of Representatives on Office of Personnel Management's 2012 Telework Report.

The article focuses on Medicare's Part D Coverage Gap Discount Program (Discount Program) by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). It informs that the CMS is located within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which is not considering the provision of discounts to eligible beneficiaries when brand-name drugs are purchased.

The article discusses ways to come up with cost-effective decisions among Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCO). Guidances and assistance on several leading practices that includes evaluation of the benefits of training is the role played by the Office of Personnel Management, which has launched HR University to provide training for the human resource community. The author says there is a need for agency leaders to be wise when investing in training.

The article presents a study of the number of the U.S. Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) demonstration project claims received and resolved by the Department of Labor (DOL) and Office of Special Counsel (OSC) from August 9, 2011 to May 9. conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). It discusses results of the study, as well as the recommendations by the GAO.

The article discusses the U.S. Government Accountability Office's report to congressional requesters about the continued improvements needed in the provision of equal employment opportunity (EEO) to Coast Guard (CG) personnel by the Civil Rights Directorate (CRD). It explores the actions undertook by the CG under each of the essential elements of EEO Commission. One of the recommendations of the report is the implementation of a systematic approach to barrier analyses.

The article presents a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the need of the Department of Labor (DOL) and Office of Special Counsel (OSC) to take steps that will ensure the reliability of information needed to assess agencies' performance. It addresses the assessment of GAO in resolving the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) claims. It notes the suggestion of GAO to OSC and DOL regarding the customer satisfaction survey.

The article presents a study conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the work-life programs including flexible work schedules, child care, and employee assistance programs. It looks into the role of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in guiding federal human capital initiatives and implementing work-life programs. Moreover, it suggests that OPM should assist agencies on the implementation of their work-life programs by tracking and evaluating data on these programs.

The article presents a study conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) which examines the country's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The study looks into the uses of and accountability for Recovery Act funds in selected states as well as the jobs created and retained. It discusses other significant issues, including the manner in which Head Start and Early Head Start grantees used Recovery Act funds and the challenges encountered in spending the funds.