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6. Anticipated Panel Activities
6. Anticipated Panel Activities
Pages 61-69
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A broad view will be provided by the panel's already initiated summary of goals, inputs, and formula features for the universe of federal funds allocation programs listed in the General Services Administration's Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance. Similar summaries will be considered for selected state programs.
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Some good candidates might include Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Chil
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The reauthorization process for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant program. The program will be coming up for reauthorization soon, providing an opportunity for a sort of anthropological/organizational study, tracking and analyzing the roles of congressional staff, federal, and state agency staff and other players in the process.
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This study would evaluate these two alternative measures, comparing their suitability from a conceptual point of view, the quality and timeliness of the data sources used, and other relevant features. The evaluation might include comparisons of the effects of using the two measures in specific formula allocation programs, such as Medicaid.
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For the most part, allocation formulas are based on measures of need, capacity, effort, and cost that are more or less directly related to program goals. Other formula features, such as hold-harmless provisions and thresholds, are often added on the grounds that they are needed for reasons of administrative efficiency, for example, to avoid disruptions caused by large changes in the amounts received from one year to the next.
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The relevant program features include: program goals; · target population, if applicable; · a brief description of services provided by the program; · first-level recipient units, e.g., states, counties, metropolitan areas; · the formula and its elements, including need, capacity, effort, and cost; · information, from legislative history and other sources, about considerations that affected the formula's initial development; · sources of input data used to estimate formula elements; · other formula features, such as thresholds, minimums, and holdharmless provisions;
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Principal topics include explaining the complex interrelations between inputs and formula features, necessary a priori and ongoing evaluations, and the properties of the most common data sources. The handbook will aid in developing new allocation formulas and evaluating existing formulas.
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