This book explores today's wireless technologies which are essential in supporting Federal agency missions crucial to the nation and enabling comme...

College affordability is an issue that has received considerable attention from federal policy makers in recent years as concerns have arisen that ...

Student loan forgiveness and loan repayment programs provide borrowers a means of having all or part of their student loan debt forgiven or repaid ...

Title IV of the Higher Education Act (HEA) authorises the major federal student aid programs, including the student loan programs, which are the la...

The William D Ford Federal Direct Loan (DL) program is the primary federal student loan program administered by the U.S. Department of Education (E...

This book analyses the terms and conditions of Federal Student Loans and Pell Grants. Discussed in this compilation are the terms and conditions of...

Title IV of the Higher Education Act (HEA) authorises the major federal student aid programs, including the student loan programs, which are the la...

For most disasters across the nation, the affected local, state, or tribal governments have sufficient capabilities to respond to the incident. How...

From the time of Vannevar Bush and World War II, academic research has played a role in the nation's economy. Vannevar Bush, national science advis...

This book is the result of an interagency workgroup tasked with developing a strategy to support students and youth with disabilities in reaching t...

This book examines a key element of current federal support for manufacturing: tax benefits. More specifically, it identifies and describes current...

Millions of individual and business taxpayers owe billions of dollars in unpaid federal tax debts, and the IRS expends substantial resources trying...

Technological innovation is a primary engine of long-term economic growth, and research and development (R&D) serves as the lifeblood of innova...

The President and leading members of Congress have stated that fundamental tax reform is a major policy objective for the 112th Congress. These pol...

This book contains an explanation of the major provisions of the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes as they apply to tran...

This book examines the current federal income tax laws which differentiate among families by type and structure in several ways. This differentiati...

The Federal Tort Claims Act is the statute by which the United States authorises tort suits to be brought against itself. With exceptions, it makes...

Federal law enforcement components used more than 16,000 confidential informants in fiscal year 2013 as part of criminal investigations. Informants...

The federal government will need to make the most of its resources to meet the emerging challenges of the 21st century. As new priorities emerge, p...

Federal agencies (excluding the U.S. Postal Service) spend about $3 billion annually to acquire, operate, and maintain about 450,000 civilian and n...

Congress has enacted hundreds of federal laws affecting the nation's water resources and continues to address numerous water-related issues annuall...

Understanding the characteristics and trends of the federal workforce is important because, among other things, agencies accomplish their missions ...