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Section 2: Twelve Reexamination Areas
2ra C e p h t
This section provides short narratives describing the emerging forces prompting the need to reexamine the goals, designs, and strategies underlying the portfolio of programs in each of 12 broad reexamination areas. As shown in figure 4, the reexamination areas correspond with major federal missi ... more>>
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Section 3: Where Do We Go From Here?
2ra C e p h t
The reexamination questions posed in this report constitute both a challenge and an opportunity. Given the size of the fiscal imbalances looming in the future, business as usual will not suffice. The real question is not whether we deal with the fiscal imbalance, but how and when. Our policy proc ... more>>
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Section 2: Twelve Reexamination Areas
Financial Regulation and Housing Challenges for the 21st Century
Increased global interdependency and rapid technological advancement in the financial services industry pose significant challenges to U.S. regulatory institutions charged with ensuring wellfunctioning markets and to government agencies charged ... more>>
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Section 2: Twelve Reexamination Areas
Financial Regulation and Housing Challenges for the 21st Century
Increased global interdependency and rapid technological advancement in the financial services industry pose significant challenges to U.S. regulatory institutions charged with ensuring wellfunctioning markets and to government agencies charged ... more>>
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Section 2: Twelve Reexamination Areas
National Defense Challenges for the 21st Century
In the past 15 years, the world has experienced dramatic changes in the overall security environment, with the focus shifting from conventional threats posed during the Cold War era to more unconventional and asymmetric threats evidenced in the events of Septem ... more>>
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Section 2: Twelve Reexamination Areas
Education and Employment Challenges for the 21st Century
The shift to a global economy and changes in technology, the nature of work, and workforce demographics are challenging customary federal approaches to education and employment. The global economy and advances in technology enable work to be shifted to ... more>>
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Section 2: Twelve Reexamination Areas
Retirement and Disability Policy Challenges for the 21st Century
One of the great American achievements of the 20th century was the development of a comprehensive national social insurance system. A core element of the system was a sturdy retirement component— with Social Security as a foundation, supplemente ... more>>
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Section 2: Twelve Reexamination Areas
Tax System Challenges in the 21st Century
American taxpayers paid about $1.9 trillion in combined federal taxes, including income, payroll, and excise taxes, in fiscal year 2004. These taxes, along with over $400 billion in deficit borrowing, funded the federal government. The tax revenue raised represented a ... more>>
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Section 2: Twelve Reexamination Areas
Governance Capacity to Meet Challenges in the 21st Century
The federal government must address and adapt to a range of major trends and challenges in the nation and the world—a long-term, structural fiscal imbalance; a transformation from an industrially based to a knowledge-based economy; revolutionary chang ... more>>
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Section 2: Twelve Reexamination Areas
Scientific and Technological Innovation Challenges for the 21st Century
For society and government, developments in science and technology present great opportunities to improve the quality of life, the performance of the economy and the government, and the relationship of government to its citizens. Advances ... more>>
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Section 2: Twelve Reexamination Areas
International Challenges for the 21st Century
The United States faces rising challenges and threats to its national and economic security. These threats include terrorism, regional conflicts, and global instability sparked by growing gaps between the “haves” and “have nots,” as well as by corruption, ethnic h ... more>>
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Section 2: Twelve Reexamination Areas
Health Care Challenges for the 21st Century
Between 1992 and 2002, overall health care spending rose from $827 billion to about $1.6 trillion; it is projected to nearly double to $3.1 trillion in the following decade. This price tag results, in part, from advances in expensive medical technology, including ne ... more>>
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Section 2: Twelve Reexamination Areas
Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment Challenges for the 21st Century
Following passage of major environmental legislation in the 1970s, the nation made a number of gains in its air and water quality, and expressed a commitment to improved management of our natural resources. As the nation moves into ... more>>
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