Recent Posts on Strategic Issues

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GAO’s High Risk List Highlights Ways to Save Billions and Help Agencies Work Better

A flow chart illustrating how TANF funds move from HHS to states to service providers and then to participants.

TANF Trends and Its Oversight—Welfare Assistance Continues to Shift Away from Cash Assistance (interactive graphic)

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Another Warning About the Nation’s Fiscal Health and Financial Record Keeping

Waikiki Beach in Hawaii

Federal jobs in Hawaii and Alaska—Sounds like a dream. So why are they so hard to fill?

Photo of the U.S. Capitol building. Shows the steps leading up to the building and the large white dome.

How Can Government Work Better? Here Are Our Recommendations to do Just That While Saving Billions of Taxpayer Dollars

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Combatting Discrimination in Our Nation’s Largest Employer—the Federal Government

Graphic showing IRS's annual tax gap--the different between what's paid and owed in taxes--from 2014-2016. It's about $496 billion each year.

Artificial Intelligence May Help IRS Close the Tax Gap

Photo of a Freedom of Information Act pamphlet

FOIA Backlogs Hinder Government Transparency and Accountability

Photo showing tax documents (rows of documents on roller carts) in the IRS's Kansas City, MO processing center, May 2023

As A New Tax Filing Season Kicks Off, We Look at the IRS Efforts to Improve Customer Service and the Audits of Two Very Different Kinds of Taxpayers

Illustration showing Congress in the foreground and money in the background where clouds should be.

A Warning About the Nation’s Fiscal Health

Photo showing a father cradling a new born baby in his arms.

Paid Parental Leave Is Available to Most Federal Employees—But Some May Not Know About It

Illustration showing Congress in the foreground and money in the background where clouds should be.

Tracking the Funds—Community Project Funding and Congressionally Directed Spending

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