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		<title>ABFM issues Call for Vice-Chair &#038; Executive Committee</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 01:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call for Candidates Association for Budgeting &#38; Financial Management Vice-Chair &#38; Executive Committee Nominations due by June 27, 2013 ABFM is now seeking candidates to stand for election for Vice Chair (2014) and for three openings on its Executive Committee(2014-2016).   The Vice Chair serves as the Conference Chair for 2015, (Chair-Elect in 2015), and Chair of ABFM in 2016.  The three [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Chair&#8217;s Column: Responding to Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 19:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This column is featured in the April 2013 edition of Line Item By Scott Pattison, ABFM Chair It is a busy time in Washington, especially on the financial front. More so than in the past, the trials and tribulations of budgets and financial conditions of all levels of government across the country and around the globe [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>USDA Expands Open Agricultural Data</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, April 29th, the United States Department of Agriculture announced the launch of a new virtual community to provide a broad range of open data on agricultural and other topics.  More than 200 datasets have been made available through the platform, incorporated into the Federal Government&#8217;s data.gov program. The recently announced the VegScape tool provides data and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>GASB Accepting Applications for Crain Research Grant</title>
		<link>http://www.abfm.org/?p=13142</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since its formation in 1984, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has encouraged academics and other researchers to conduct studies that would be relevant to the GASB’s standards-setting activities. Over the past quarter-century, such research efforts have resulted in publishing their research in research briefs, journal articles, and occasionally in GASB research reports. The GASB [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Recording of State Tax Reform Panel Available</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our research journal partners, the American Association for Budget and Program Analysis, hosted several of the ABFM members involved in our February/March Line Item special issue, &#8220;State Tax Reform: Options, Challenges and Creativity&#8221; for an engaging webinar panel on the issue&#8217;s articles and the current shape of proposed changes to tax policy in several states. A recording [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Check out Video from Federal Budgeting 2013: Fundamentally Challenged</title>
		<link>http://www.abfm.org/?p=13024</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current federal budget process has been stymied by political and philosophical priorities.  A panel of experts recently gathered to share their thoughts about the current environment, what should happen next and what is likely to occur.  This video, &#8220;Federal Budgeting 2013: Fundamentally Challenged,&#8221; contains the one-hour panel discussion, a subsequent half-hour Q&#38;A session, and brief follow-up [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Video from NC State University&#8217;s &#8220;Laissez-Faire Capitalism v. The Mixed Economy&#8221; Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, Dr. Yaron Brook, Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute, met up with University of North Carolina School of Government Economist, Dr. Karl Smith, for a debate on competing economic theories. Their debate focused on the contrasts and competing arguments favoring either the modern &#8220;mixed economy&#8221; environment, reflecting a convergence of libertarian and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Build America&#8221; Rebate Reduced by Sequestration</title>
		<link>http://www.abfm.org/?p=11332</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Build America Bonds&#8221; program touted during the 2009 American Recovery &#38; Reinvestment Act (ARRA, Stimulus) saw its interest rebate significantly reduced as a result of Federal spending cuts triggered by the implementation of &#8220;sequestration&#8221; on March 1st. The IRS, responsible for administration of the program and remittance of rebates to municipal governments that issued [&#8230;]]]></description>
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