(an award that also quite realistically recognizes that, unlike say the Nobel prize, there is no attendant monetary value to our awards, and because finding a penny - or two - unexpectedly brings good luck)
For the first Penny award, I have selected the category of best recent study.
My candidates for this category are:
1. The Military's DADT study on attitudes towards gays openly serving
2. The University of Maryland's Fox News Creates Ill-informed Voters Study (profiled here)
3. The Moody's Study of the savings by income group, present back to 1989,
which found that Tax Cuts to the wealthy did not correlate with job creation or investment,
and that extending the Bush Tax Cuts to the wealthy
would have a negative effect on the deficit and the economy
4. The Vegetation / Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change Study conducted by
the NOAA, NASA, and my new favorite academic institution - the University of Maryland,
and research scientist Lahouari Bounoua (published in the peer-review journal Geophysical Research Letters)
5. The Minnesota County Attorney's Association Study disproving claims of Voter Fraud in Minnesota's 2008 Elections
These were all informative, educational, and worthwhile studies, deserving of recognition. I'm somewhat arbitrarily awarding the first 'Penny' Award ' for 2010, in the category for an academic or genuinely scientific study to (imagine your own drum roll here) to the Moody's Study on Tax Cuts to the Wealthiest 2%!
Because the Congressional Budget Office also authors a number of studies, I'm awarding them their own separate award, not for one specific study by them, but for their overall body of recent work (listed below)
(all of which are available by following the link, in approximate calendar order,
listing some, but by no means all, of the studies from the second half of 2010;
for studies completed and/or released during the first half, follow the link...
and keep scrolling downwards, and scrolling, and scrolling..... )
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Role in the Secondary Mortgage Market
Selected CBO Publications Related to Health Care Legislation, 2009-2010
Federal Debt and Interest Costs
Evaluating Limits on Participation and Transactions in Markets for Emissions Allowances
Monthly Budget Review
Immigration Policy in the United States: An Update
Report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- November 2010
Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output
From July 2010 Through September 2010
Public Spending on Transportation and Water Infrastructure
Managing Allowance Prices in a Cap-and-Trade Program
CBO's Projections of Federal Receipts and Expenditures in the Framework of the National Income and Product Accounts
CBO's 2010 Long-Term Projections for Social Security: Additional Information
Potential Costs of Veterans' Health Care
Effects of Using Generic Drugs on Medicare's Prescription Drug Spending
The Role of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market: An Update
An Analysis of the Army's Arsenal Support Program Initiative
CBO's Economic Forecasting Record: 2010 Update
Using Biofuel Tax Credits to Achieve Energy and Environmental Policy Goals
Social Security Policy Options
Congratulations, and well-deserved applause (please!) from our Penigma readers for the hard working government bean counters at the CBO (a term offered with affectionate respect) who labor in our service and for our erstwhile benefit. Well done CBO!
I hope our Penigma readers will check out this useful and informative CBO site providing these studies - it's free! - and will take at least a quick peruse of one or more of the CBO studies. Many helpfully begin with either a summary or overview. If you feel an individual CBO study, or some other study deserves even more recognition, feel free to use our email address to submit it to our attention - penigma2@hotmail.com, or leave a comment!
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