Newsletter Archive
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Take Action! SPD 8: NAICS and More
August 03, 2026by Meghan MauryRead MoreStatistical Policy Directive of the Week: SPD 8: North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). OMB is seeking comment on proposed 2027 updates to NAICS, the government-wide system for classifying businesses by industry. The changes would separate streaming services from social networks, recognize spaceport operations and electric-vehicle motor manufacturing, and combine several related manufacturing, transit, training, and other industries. OMB is not proposing requested new classifications for the bioeconomy. If finalized, federal statistical agencies would use the revised categories for data covering 2027 and later.
Comments due August 12.Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that decision. The Take Action! newsletter highlights surveys or forms the government is changing, renewing, or introducing. Click the links to tell the government what you think about the changes they are making.
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Take Action! Enforcement of Executive Order 14398 and More
July 28, 2026by Meghan MauryRead MoreForm of the Week: Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors (E.O. 14398) for Contract-Like Instruments. GSA is seeking approval for a new information collection to enforce Executive Order 14398, which bars federal contractors from engaging in what the order calls “racially discriminatory” DEI activities. The collection would extend the anti-DEI contract clause to GSA’s non-FAR contract-like instruments, including leases, concession contracts, and outleases, and would require contractors to provide records on request, report known or “reasonably knowable” subcontractor conduct that may violate the clause, and notify GSA if a subcontractor lawsuit challenges it. As a result of this form's requirements, prime contractors will need to monitor and report on subcontractors, which could discourage contractors and subcontractors from maintaining lawful DEI or supplier-diversity work if they fear federal scrutiny, contract remedies, or being reported by a business partner.
Comments due August 24.Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that decision. The Take Action! newsletter highlights surveys or forms the government is changing, renewing, or introducing. Click the links to tell the government what you think about the changes they are making.
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Take Action! FEVS and More
July 24, 2026by Meghan MauryRead MoreSurvey + Rule of the Week: Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. OPM is proposing to redesign the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey following its cancellation of the survey in 2025. Under the new model, OPM would stop centrally administering the government-wide survey; each agency would conduct its own annual survey using 10 required questions rather than 16 and submit the core results to OPM and OMB. A companion proposed rule — Personnel Management in Agencies: Strategic Human Capital Management — would also let agencies decide what information to publish, removing current requirements to disclose details such as survey methodology, response rates, and question-level results. OPM says the changes will give agencies greater flexibility and more useful management information, but the decentralization, reduced set of common questions, and weaker transparency requirements could make results less consistent across agencies and over time while limiting public accountability.
Comments on the survey are due August 31; Comments on the proposed rule are due August 3.Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that decision. The Take Action! newsletter highlights surveys or forms the government is changing, renewing, or introducing. Click the links to tell the government what you think about the changes they are making.
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Take Action! Reporting Portal for Civil Rights Violations and More
July 15, 2026by Meghan MauryRead MoreForm of the Week: Reporting Portal for Civil Rights Violations. In this notice, DOJ is seeking continued approval for its Civil Rights Reporting Portal, the public online form people use to report potential civil rights violations to the Civil Rights Division. The notice does not disclose the changes in detail, but the supplemental materials show that DOJ is adding "gun ownership" as a discrimination type, removing “gender identity” as a selectable personal characteristic, and changing “gender” references to “sex” in the hate-crime portions of the portal, even though federal hate-crimes law still expressly covers crimes motivated by actual or perceived gender identity.
Comments due August 21.Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that decision. The Take Action! newsletter highlights surveys or forms the government is changing, renewing, or introducing. Click the links to tell the government what you think about the changes they are making.
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Take Action! HRSA Uniform Data System and More
July 10, 2026by Meghan MauryRead MoreData System of the Week: HRSA Uniform Data System. In this notice, HRSA is revising the Uniform Data System, the annual reporting system used by federally supported health centers, largely to streamline reporting while adding some new measures on diabetes, disability, autism screening, patient support services, and upstream drivers of health. In addition, HRSA proposes to add a new question asking whether health centers provide puberty blockers, hormones, or surgical procedures to patients under 19 for the purpose of aligning their appearance with a gender identity different from their sex assigned at birth, which could increase scrutiny of health centers that provide gender-affirming care to transgender youth.
Comments due July 16.Every time the government makes a change to a survey or a form — or introduces a new survey or form — you have the right to weigh in on that decision. The Take Action! newsletter highlights surveys or forms the government is changing, renewing, or introducing. Click the links to tell the government what you think about the changes they are making.