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Communication with Policymakers

 

  • * New *  Letter on the Importance of Federal Economic Statistics, sent to Leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education on the Importance of Federal Economic Statistics (February 17, 2025)
  • * New *  Letter on the Importance of Federal Economic Statistics, sent to the Leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (February 17, 2025) 
  • AEAStat Response to the Department of Commerce’s Request for Comments on Field Testing an Internet Self-Response Option for the Current Population Survey (November 25, 2024)
  • AEAStat Statement on a Potential Cut in the Sample Size of the Current Population Survey (July 10, 2024)
  • Formal response to OMB’s Request for Comments on a Proposal to Modify “Statistical Policy Directive No. 3: Compilation, Release, and Evaluation of Principal Federal Economic Indicators” (October 24, 2023)
  • Formal response to U.S. Census Bureau on improving privacy protections in the Current Population Survey Public Use File (July 14, 2022)*
  • Letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen endorsing the Treasury Department’s FY 2022 proposal on Data Synchronization (July 15, 2021)*
  • Letter to Janelle Jones, Chief Economist, Department of Labor, on Measuring the Consequences of Systemic Racism (May 10, 2021)
  • Letter to Labor Secretary Marty Walsh on Improving the U.S. Statistical Infrastructure (April 2, 2021)*
  • Letter to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Improving the U.S. Statistical Infrastructure (March 3, 2021)*
  • Letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Improving the U.S. Statistical Infrastructure (March 1, 2021)*
  • Letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen about improving the U.S. statistical infrastructure (February 17, 2021)*
  • Formal response to a Department of Commerce request for comments on the Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building (February 9, 2021)*
  • Report Sent to the Biden-Harris Administration on Necessary Improvements in the U.S. Statistical Infrastructure (January 2021)*
  • Memo supporting Senators Schatz, Murkowski, and Sullivan's co-sponsored bill, S. 4571, to extend the deadline for 2020 Census (September 22, 2020)*
  • Letter urging Congress to extend the deadline for 2020 Census (August 7, 2020)*
  • Letter to Congress on the relocation and realignment of USDA’s Economic Research Service (February 18, 2019)
  • Formal response to an OMB request for comments on the use of consumer price based measures of inflation (June 21, 2019)
  • Formal response to an OMB request for comments on Statistical Policy Directive #3, which requires a 60-minute delay between release of Principal Federal Economic Indicators and Executive Branch comments on the release (June 10, 2019)
  • Letter to Congress on the relocation and realignment of USDA’s Economic Research Service (February 18, 2019)
  • Formal response to a Department of Commerce request for feedback on plans and preparations for the 2020 Decennial Census (August 6, 2018)*
  • Letter to Congress on the consequences of realigning and relocating the USDA's Economic Research Service (November 29, 2018)*
  • Letter to Speaker Ryan and Senator Murray on creation of Commission on Evidence Based Policymaking (November 13, 2017)*
  • Letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee on the Commission on Evidence Based Policy and Support for Federal Statistical Agencies (October 1, 2017)*
  • Letter to Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta on Federal Economic Statistics (May 23, 2017)
  • AEA Statement on Data Synchronization (April 24, 2015)

* Joint with the AEA’s Committee on Government Relations.