Website Launched - Donate Tax-Cut Proceeds to Charity

Three professors  from Yale and Cornell -- have launched GiveItBackForJobs.org, a website that allows visitors to calculate their tax cuts and pledge some of the money to charity.  "You can see what your tax cut is and, if you can afford it, you can support the kinds of programs the government would be supporting," said Daniel Markovits, a professor at Yale Law School. "It allows you to tie your charitable donations to a statement of principle that taxes should be more equally distributed."

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Census Returning $1.6 Billion to Treasury

WASHINGTON (Aug. 10) -- Thanks to a better-than-expected response rate, lots of advertising and a little luck, the Commerce Department announced today that it is returning to the Treasury $1.6 billion in savings from the 2010 Census.

To improve the response rate, the administration analyzed early data on returns and increased its media buys in markets that seriously lagged in response. Daily meetings between senior leadership and the technical team in charge of troubleshooting the IT system that manages field operations also helped keep the system — which was deemed likely to fail by the Government Accountability Office and the Commerce Inspector General — functioning throughout the count.

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