Strauss Appointed to National Panel

Robert Strauss, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, has been
appointed to a panel of the National Academies Committee on National
Statistics. The panel will review the statistical activities of the Census
Bureau's Governments Division and submit its report by March, 2007. The
Governments Division of the Census Bureau is responsible for conducting a
census of governments every five years, and for annually measuring
government spending and revenues, short and long term indebtedness,
governmental employment, and government retirement plans. This is the first
formal review of the Governments Division statistical activities in more
than a quarter century.

Strauss also recently received a David C. Lincoln Fellowship from the
Lincoln Land Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts for 2006 to study land
taxation in Allegheny County.