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I’m Back!

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Moving and selling my home pushed the “to do” to overwhelm, leaving no time to blog. Now that I’m settled in Portland Oregon, I will return to blogging–posting research studies that are of interest to public administrators, political junkies and public policy advocates. Stay tuned!

Age and What We Know

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From PEW:

75% vs. 21% – Zuckerberg vs. Boehner

The founder of the social networking site Facebook is a far more prominent figure in the lives of America’s young adults than is the speaker of the House of Representatives. In a recent News IQ survey, 75% of adults younger than age 30 were able to identify Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook’s creator, while only 21% had a clue as to who John Boehner is. Among all adults, more knew the Facebook founder than the speaker, but the margin was much smaller (55% vs. 43%). Adults ages 65 and older are the only group to have more knowledge of Congress than of the social network: 55% of older Americans can ID the speaker while only 25% recognize Zuckerberg. An equal number (58%) of adults ages 50 to 64 can name the founder of Facebook and the speaker of the House.

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Census: the Methodology Behind the Count

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From Pew: “The Census Bureau today released five sets of population estimates for the nation as of April 1 — but not from the soon-to-be-released 2010 Census count. The estimates are based on an alternative measurement technique, called demographic analysis, that agency officials say employs plausible assumptions about population change. The demographic analysis estimates range from a low of 305.7 million to a high of 312.7 million. The first numbers from the 2010 Census, which will include online canadian pharmacy a national population total and state totals for reapportionment purposes, will be released later this neupro canadian pharmacy month. At a news conference today, Census cialis soft Bureau Director Robert Groves said the five different estimates all make “plausible assumptions.” The analysis will be among three major pharmacycanada-rxedtop.com tools used by the bureau to evaluate the quality of the 2010 Census. The other two include quality measures such as mail return cialisgeneric-toped.com rates from the census itself, and a post-census quality-check survey for which results will be released in 2012.” See article at: http://viagraonline-edstore.com/ Pew

Calculating Budget Trade-Offs

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The National Priorities Project has constructed an interactive site where you can calculate budget trade-offs in terms of what money spent for a specific federal program would buy in a state or locality if the decision was to spend that money there.

For example:

Taxpayers in Washington will pay $5.7 billion for proposed Net Interest in FY2011. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
725,211 Military Veterans Receiving VA Medical Care for One Year
Or:
Taxpayers in Washington will pay $5.7 billion for proposed Net Interest in FY2011. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
1,025,785 Students receiving Pell Grants of $5550
It gives you a sense of how much money we are talking about.
You can this for cities too.
Taxpayers in Olympia, Washington will pay $36.6 million for proposed Net Interest in FY2011. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
6,602 Students receiving Pell Grants of $5550
Check it out:

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/tradeoffs?location_type=1&state=53&program=708&tradeoff_item_item=278&submit_tradeoffs=Get+Trade+Off