Archive for May, 2009
Recovery Act latest news by agency – USDA
I’m going to take a look at the latest Recovery Act news and opportunities by agency this week, beginning with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced on May 28th that $143 million in rural water and environmental projects are being funded.
USDA Rural Development’s Water and Environmental Program provides loans and grants to ensure that [...]
NIH Announces New Program to Develop Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases
The National Institutes of Health is launching the first integrated, drug development pipeline to produce new treatments for rare and neglected diseases. The $24 million program jumpstarts a trans-NIH initiative called the Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases program, or TRND.
The program is unusual because TRND creates a drug development pipeline within the NIH and [...]
Senate Finance Committee releases policy options for financing health care reform
Healthcare reform is a major objective of the Obama administration . How much will it cost, and how will it be paid for? The Senate Finance Committee has released several documents recently. The third and final paper addresses policy options. It can be found here on the committee website. Public comments are due by May [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Social Security upside down in 2016 – hello is it finally time to do something?
So, according to the May 12th report of the Social Security Board of Trustees, the social security fund will be upside down in seven years, barring tough action. They didn’t say that, of course. They reported that the projected point at which social security tax revenues will fall below program costs will come in 2016.
They [...]
The FY10 President’s Budget has been released
Today the OMB released portions of the FY10 president’s budget – or budgets, really, one for each federal agency. This is, of course, prelude to a months long process whereby the congress will ultimately (hopefully) pass FY10 appropriations bills that the President will sign, keeping the government funded for another year.
Reading the budget (or budgets) [...]
