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Effects of COVID-19 on the Federal Research and Development Enterprise
Congressional Research Service · 2020-04-10 · Reports · 9,174 words · PDF available
The federal research and development (R&D) enterprise is a large and complex system that includes government facilities and employees as well as federally funded work in industry, academia, and the no...
Federal Communications Commission: Progress Protecting Consumers from Illegal Robocalls
Congressional Research Service · 2020-04-10 · Reports · 4,461 words · PDF available
The number of robocalls continues to grow in the United States, and the figures tend to fluctuate based on the introduction of new government and industry attempts to stop them and robocallers’ changi...
Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund and COVID-19
Congressional Research Service · 2020-04-10 · Resources · 1,793 words · PDF available
As part of the U.S. government’s economic response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act; H.R. 748/P.L. 116-136), was signed int...
State and Local Government Debt and COVID-19
Congressional Research Service · 2020-04-10 · Resources · 1,375 words · PDF available
Debt (often in the form of bonds) represents a promise by the issuer (borrower) to pay interest income to lenders on the principal (the amount of money borrowed) until that principal is repaid. In lig...