Federal Spending Transparency on the Decline?

Federal Spending Transparency on the Decline?

Even as government transparency initiatives and portals like data.gov grow rapidly, the federal government is ending valuable and long-standing data publications.

One example is the Consolidated Federal Funds Report (CFFR), an annual federal spending report created by the Census Bureau and de-funded in fiscal year 2012. Since 1983, the Census Bureau collected spending information from the back-end systems that track federal awards, contracts, and salaries; compiled it into a single format; and summarized

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  1. Peggy Garvin

    381.0 days ago

    http://t.co/ovFkkfAD not a replacement for Consolidated Federal Funds Report, CFFR: http://t.co/KiQhHHHV

  2. Sunlight Foundation

    381.0 days ago

    Is federal spending transparency on the decline? http://t.co/yfblIPRh #opengov

  3. Ellen Miller

    381.0 days ago

    Federal Spending Transparency on the Decline? @nationalpriorities http://t.co/rRt3E5Gq

  4. Gabriela

    381.0 days ago

    Federal Spending Transparency on the Decline? http://t.co/XiVqykPm via @sunfoundation



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