March 14, 2006
It’s Sunshine Week — a national initiative to improve the transparency of government records and data. Senior economist Heather Boushey took part in the initiative by speaking at a Heritage Foundation panel discussion, “What if the Answers Don’t Add Up: Transparency and Government Data.” She highlighted the importance of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), which is slated for elimination in the President’s FY07 budget.
The other panelists at the event were Mark Tapscott (not pictured), director of the Heritage’s Center for Media and Public Policy and Kirk Johnson and David Mulhausen, both senior policy analysts at Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis.
In other news for the day, Mark Weisbrot and Claudio Loser, visiting senior fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue, and former Western Hemisphere Director at the International Monetary Fund spoke at a press breakfast discussion entitled, Latin America’s Electoral Leftward Shift: The Importance of Economic Growth at the Old Ebbitt Grill. Economic and finance policy reporters from the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Reuters, and the Associated Press attended the event. (Read the transcript from the event.)
