This month’s guest columnist, Adrienne Pilot of the Council of Economic Advisers, describes a major development for the federal statistical agencies. A carefully crafted proposal to Congress would allow the economic statistical agencies to better synchronize their business data, thereby allowing these agencies to improve their economic statistical data while still protecting confidentiality.

Cliff Spiegelman, Adina Schwartz, and Katherine Philpott address the critical issue of forensic science reform.

How to control costs of the 2020 decennial census dominated testimony and questioning during an April 6 Senate hearing.

The 112th Congress is well under way, with federal budget discussions grabbing most of the headlines. Once the fiscal year 2011 (FY11) budget is resolved, what are the issues that might interest ASA members in 2011? Which issues should ASA members contact their members of Congress about?

This month’s guest editor Dale Jorgenson discusses the components of economic growth in the context of furthering the U.S. economic recovery.

Gordon Reikard explains how research and development once dominated the contributions to technological advance and how information technology has become a greater influence in the last few decades.

Andrew Reamer provides practical steps to address disconnections between labor market demand and supply that add to unemployment, underemployment, and unfilled jobs.

In his column this month, ASA Director of Science Policy Steve Pierson looks back at what happened to the bill that would have strengthened the autonomy of the U.S. Census Bureau.

This month’s guest editors, Keith A. Baggerly and Donald A. Berry, make the case that journals have a key role to play in making research reproducible. Their call comes in the aftermath of attempts to reproduce the cancer research results of Duke’s Anil Potti and Joseph Nevins, whose seemingly promising 2006 work led to three clinical trials.

Norman R. Augustine is this month’s science policy guest columnist. Augustine chaired the National Academies committee that wrote the enormously influential 2005 report Rising Above the Gathering Storm. In this piece, Augustine provides a commentary on the U.S. competitiveness challenges.