QUESTION FROM SIDK: Obama said repeatedly during the 2008 campaign that he would "look at the budget line by line to identify programs that don't work".
Aides have already begun trying to identify programs that can be trimmed back, and they predict that the House and Senate will face tough negotiations over spending on individual programs.
But initially he has said he will focus less on political inquiries and more on identifying programs that are hemorrhaging the most money.
The White House is directing agencies to develop plans for trimming at least 5percentt from their budgets by identifying programs that do little to advance their missions or President Obama's agenda.
To help professors develop, design and improve second auditing classes, we surveyed members of the American Accounting Association's Auditing Section to identify programs that offer second auditing courses, the textbooks used for such courses, and the learning activities used.
They will be randomly enrolled in a variety of social programs, and tracking their progress will allow the team to identify programs that can be most successful in helping these youths make the jump from school and adolescence to work and adulthood.
Youth were recruited for the study through participating ChalleNGe sites.7 The 12 participating sites were not chosen randomly; rather, there was an effort to identify programs that had stable staffing and that tended to receive more applicants than they could serve, a prerequisite for conducting a random assignment evaluation.
VHI identifies programs that have excellent clinical addiction and trauma programs, and works with them to create veteran treatment tracks.
I might look to past Nicholas Kristof columns, crowdsource funding websites and youth-run organizations to identify programs that are effective but unsexy.
Upton says that he will "help" Obama grow jobs and reduce government be identifying programs that need to be cut and bureaucracies that need to get junk shotted at oil spills.
