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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report entitled “Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax Dollars, and Enhance Revenue.” The report detailed the extreme inefficiency that exists within government, highlighting numerous redundancies in programs, limited accountability for actual results, and an insufficient focus on investing in what works.

The findings released in this report were hardly newsworthy. Congressmen and women, Presidential candidates and taxpayers alike have been arguing for reform and efficiency within government for decades and that argument continues amidst the current budget debate in Washington. 

What is newsworthy, however, is that a newly established initiative at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the Social Innovation Fund (SIF), which was designed to address some of these very problems, is currently under threat of elimination by ! a proposal backed by some of the very lawmakers citing this same GAO report as evidence for needed change in the way government works.

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