Communication with Policymakers

 

  • Formal response to OMB’s Request for Comments on a Proposal to Modify “Statistical Policy Directive No. 3: Compilation, Release, and Evaluation of Principal Federal Economic Indicators” (October 24, 2023)
  • Formal response to U.S. Census Bureau on improving privacy protections in the Current Population Survey Public Use File (July 14, 2022)*
  • Letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen endorsing the Treasury Department’s FY 2022 proposal on Data Synchronization (July 15, 2021)*
  • Letter to Janelle Jones, Chief Economist, Department of Labor, on Measuring the Consequences of Systemic Racism (May 10, 2021)
  • Letter to Labor Secretary Marty Walsh on Improving the U.S. Statistical Infrastructure (April 2, 2021)*
  • Letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Improving the U.S. Statistical Infrastructure (March 3, 2021)*
  • Letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Improving the U.S. Statistical Infrastructure (March 1, 2021)*
  • Letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen about improving the U.S. statistical infrastructure (February 17, 2021)*
  • Formal response to a Department of Commerce request for comments on the Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building (February 9, 2021)*
  • Report Sent to the Biden-Harris Administration on Necessary Improvements in the U.S. Statistical Infrastructure (January 2021)*
  • Memo supporting Senators Schatz, Murkowski, and Sullivan's co-sponsored bill, S. 4571, to extend the deadline for 2020 Census (September 22, 2020)*
  • Letter urging Congress to extend the deadline for 2020 Census (August 7, 2020)*
  • Letter to Congress on the relocation and realignment of USDA’s Economic Research Service (February 18, 2019)
  • Formal response to an OMB request for comments on the use of consumer price based measures of inflation (June 21, 2019)
  • Formal response to an OMB request for comments on Statistical Policy Directive #3, which requires a 60-minute delay between release of Principal Federal Economic Indicators and Executive Branch comments on the release (June 10, 2019)
  • Letter to Congress on the relocation and realignment of USDA’s Economic Research Service (February 18, 2019)
  • Formal response to a Department of Commerce request for feedback on plans and preparations for the 2020 Decennial Census (August 6, 2018)*
  • Letter to Congress on the consequences of realigning and relocating the USDA's Economic Research Service (November 29, 2018)*
  • Letter to Speaker Ryan and Senator Murray on creation of Commission on Evidence Based Policymaking (November 13, 2017)*
  • Letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee on the Commission on Evidence Based Policy and Support for Federal Statistical Agencies (October 1, 2017)*
  • Letter to Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta on Federal Economic Statistics (May 23, 2017)
  • AEA Statement on Data Synchronization (April 24, 2015)

* Joint with the AEA’s Committee on Government Relations.