Balancing the Federal Budget: Trimming the Herds Or Eating the Seed Corn?In this timely book Irene Rubin focuses on how government tried and eventually succeeded in balancing the U.S. federal budget in 1998. With characteristic insight and a lively narrative, Rubin describes the successive efforts of Congress and the administration over seventeen years to shape a process that would encourage balance, as well as the reactions of federal agencies to the pressure. |
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Office of Personnel Management | 21 |
General Accounting Office | 25 |
Tables | 29 |
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