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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?cat=31" title="View all posts in PRB News" rel="category">PRB News</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?p=44#respond" title="Comment on Applying the Evaluation Gold Standard">No Comments »</a></p> by Bill Butz, president and CEO Fifteen years ago, the U.S. Congress, in bipartisan consort with Vice President Gore, passed the Government Performance and Results Act. All federal agencies had to ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?p=44" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Applying the Evaluation Gold Standard">Read more..</a> <h3 id="post-43"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?p=43" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to To Tell the Truth…With Statistics!: Affirmation from the Top">To Tell the Truth…With Statistics!: Affirmation from the Top</a></h3> <p><small>Wednesday, January 21st, 2009</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?cat=31" title="View all posts in PRB News" rel="category">PRB News</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?p=43#comments" title="Comment on To Tell the Truth…With Statistics!: Affirmation from the Top">1 Comment »</a></p> by Bill Butz, president and CEO Accompanied by old friend and PRB visiting scholar Charlie Teller, I biked from home to the National Mall early yesterday morning. Among the 2 million, we ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?p=43" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to To Tell the Truth…With Statistics!: Affirmation from the Top">Read more..</a> <h3 id="post-42"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?p=42" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to To Tell the Truth…With Statistics!: Poverty">To Tell the Truth…With Statistics!: Poverty</a></h3> <p><small>Wednesday, January 14th, 2009</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?cat=8" title="View all posts in Income/Poverty" rel="category">Income/Poverty</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?cat=10" title="View all posts in Population Basics" rel="category">Population Basics</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?p=42#comments" title="Comment on To Tell the Truth…With Statistics!: Poverty">1 Comment »</a></p> by Bill Butz, president and CEO “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Benjamin Disraeli “It is easy to lie with statistics, but it is easier to lie ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?p=42" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to To Tell the Truth…With Statistics!: Poverty">Read more..</a> <h3 id="post-36"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?p=36" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to European Fertilty: First Do No Harm">European Fertilty: First Do No Harm</a></h3> <p><small>Friday, January 9th, 2009</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?cat=10" title="View all posts in Population Basics" rel="category">Population Basics</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?p=36#respond" title="Comment on European Fertilty: First Do No Harm">No Comments »</a></p> by Bill Butz, president and CEO In the Vienna Institute of Demography’s conference proceedings on the question “Can policies enhance fertility in Europe?,” I argue a little-heard view: Fertility in Europe is ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?p=36" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to European Fertilty: First Do No Harm">Read more..</a> <h3 id="post-34"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?p=34" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Will the Economic Downturn Lower Birth Rates?">Will the Economic Downturn Lower Birth Rates?</a></h3> <p><small>Thursday, January 8th, 2009</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?cat=9" title="View all posts in Marriage/Family" rel="category">Marriage/Family</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?p=34#comments" title="Comment on Will the Economic Downturn Lower Birth Rates?">1 Comment »</a></p> by Carl Haub, senior demographer There is a good bit of evidence that hard economic times cause people to delay having a child or not have one altogether, circumstantial as that ... <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?p=34" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Will the Economic Downturn Lower Birth Rates?">Read more..</a> <h3 id="post-32"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?p=32" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to To Tell the Truth…With Statistics!: Population">To Tell the Truth…With Statistics!: Population</a></h3> <p><small>Tuesday, January 6th, 2009</small> Posted in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?cat=10" title="View all posts in Population Basics" rel="category">Population Basics</a> | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090919021809/http://prbblog.org/?p=32#respond" title="Comment on To Tell the Truth…With Statistics!: Population">No Comments »</a></p> by Bill Butz, president and 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