A legacy of low building rates has contributed to backlog of around 2m homes.
The lack of judges in immigration courts has contributed to a years-long backlog.
Roger Toussaint, a leader of the New Directions Caucus, a faction of the Transport Workers Union, contended yesterday that a longstanding shortage of signal and switch supervisors had contributed to a backlog of secondary inspections and that supervisors were under constant pressure to catch up.
The head of the Passport Office has disclosed that there are nearly 500,000 passport applications still "in progress" as a union representative said staffing cuts had contributed to the huge backlog.
Lynch said that the funding will also help jurisdictions "examine a variety of factors that may have contributed to the current backlog, such as evidence collection systems, storage methods, police practices, prosecutorial policies and laboratory procedures".
But that backlog has a less-noted companion.
The backlog has more to do with politics than economics.
Reducing the backlog has bipartisan and presidential support.
That backlog has spawned scores of imitators scavenging for Groupon's castoffs.
We screened for companies whose backlog has risen relative to the previous year's figure.
