Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, is seen in the U.S. Capitol after a meeting in the office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., March 26, 2026. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images A coalition of current and former Meta employees have sued the social media giant, alleging that the company used…
Please enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser or access the information through the links provided below. July 14, 2026 Minutes of the Board’s discount rate meetings on June 8 and June 17, 2026 For release at 2:00 p.m. EDT The Federal Reserve Board on…
The new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opened on July 4 in Medora, North Dakota. The location may seem surprising because Roosevelt was a New Yorker: he was born in Manhattan, buried in Oyster Bay, has a memorial along Central Park, and spent most of his adult life at Sagamore Hill on Long Island. A presidential…
Building on the momentum and vast interest generated by the Regional Workshops on Tax Expenditures, ATI, CEP and IDOS have initiated a Community of Practice (CoP) on Tax Expenditures (TEs). The objective of the Community of Practice is to provide all attendees from ATI partner countries and other interested parties with a platform to continue…
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 Preventing Fraud in Medicare Medicare is the biggest spending area for the U.S. government and the largest federal health program. Due to the sheer size of Medicare, there are risks of fraud. We’ll talk with GAO’s Leslie Gordon to find out about efforts to detect and prevent this fraud.
I collect books; it’s a big part of my life as an academic. Whenever I travel—whether around New York, across the country, or overseas—I almost always come home with another volume or two. My home and office are lined with books, and friends and family have spent years sending me t-shirts that read, “So Many Books, So Little Time.” My students even regularly…
During a Global Government Forum webinar, government leaders discussed what citizens will expect from the public services of the future – from hyper-personalisation and targeted intervention to instancy – and how to use digital and data to deliver them The work of government has never been more complex. Public sector organisations face increasing pressures, not…
Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett testify before the House Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill on July 14, 2026 in Washington, DC. Finn Gomez | Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told a House subcommittee on Tuesday that “the threat level” against her and other federal judges “is really high”…
Thursday, April 23, 2026 America’s Cybersecurity Risks and How GAO Is Helping to Address Them On this special episode of the Watchdog Report podcast, we discuss America’s cybersecurity risks, as well as GAO’s role in auditing and improving defenses against them. Our guest is Nick Marinos, GAO’s managing director of our Information Technology and Cybersecurity…
For their valuable comments, we thank seminar participants and attendees at Saint Mary’s University, St. Francis Xavier University, the 2024 Atlantic Canadian Economic Conference, and the 2023 Labor Economics Special Issue Contributors Workshop and Conference at the Ohio State University. We are grateful to Alex Hollingsworth for helpful comments. We thank Matthew McKitrick and Theresa…