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Dated: July 8, 2020.
Mary Lazare,
Principal Deputy Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
Request for Information on Federal
Coordination To Promote Economic
Mobility for All Americans
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
(ASPE), U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Request for Information.
AGENCY:
HHS is publishing this
Request for Information (RFI) to seek
public input on the development of a
federal interagency Council on
Economic Mobility (Council). HHS and
the Council will analyze information
collected in this RFI to gather feedback
from our stakeholders to better inform
the Council’s priorities and how the
Council can promote economic
mobility, recovery, and resilience.
DATES: Submit written comments at the
address provided below no later than
October 2, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to CouncilTeam@hhs.gov.
HHS encourages the early submission of
comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The
ASPE Council team at CouncilTeam@
hhs.gov.
SUMMARY:
Invitation
to Comment: HHS invites comments
regarding the questions included in this
notice. To ensure that your comments
are clearly stated, please identify the
specific question, or other section of this
notice, that your comments address.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1.0 Background
As announced in HHS’s 2020
Congressional Justification, HHS is
leading the development and
establishment of an interagency Council
on Economic Mobility (Council). The
Council is composed of the heads of
member agencies (HHS; the U.S.
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Departments of Agriculture, Education,
Labor, Housing and Urban Development
[HUD], and Treasury; the Social
Security Administration [SSA]; and the
Council of Economic Advisors [CEA]) or
their delegates. HHS will also serve as
the first Council chair.
As an administratively established
group, the Council is constrained to
activities and authorities contained in
current law. As an interagency group,
the Council is focusing on areas that are
crosscutting, issues that cannot be
accomplished by a single agency on its
own, seeking to create an accountable
and effective structure for interagency
collaboration and using federal
authorities to promote family-sustaining
careers and economic mobility for lowincome Americans. The Council aims to
promote economic recovery and build
resilience in the face of the COVID–19
pandemic, learning from the response to
build a more integrated and effective
long-term federal strategy to promote
economic mobility and help individuals
sustain their economic success.
Many federal workforce and work
support programs and services are
overseen by the Council member
agencies, such as the Child Care and
Development Fund, Medicaid,
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program Employment and Training, the
Family Self-Sufficiency program, the
Jobs Plus program, Vocational
Rehabilitation programs, and Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act
programs, among others. For examples
of more potential programs, go to
https://tinyurl.com/
CouncilonEconomicMobility.
2.0 Request for Information
Through this RFI, HHS and its
interagency partners (Agriculture,
Education, Labor, HUD, Treasury, SSA,
CEA, the Office of Management and
Budget, and the Domestic Policy
Council) seek to gather feedback from
our stakeholders—state and local
government agencies, local program
operators, and the people that we serve.
The information gathered in response to
the RFI will be used to better inform the
Council’s priorities, working group
activities, stakeholder engagement, and
federal programs. Council members and
the entire U.S. government are
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committed to a healthy and resilient
America. COVID–19 has touched
individuals and families in every corner
of America—with communities across
the country experiencing the pandemic
in different ways. Feedback on the
specific economic mobility, recovery,
and resilience challenges in local
communities in the short, medium, and
long term is welcome.
3.0
Key Questions
3.1 What priorities would you
identify for the new federal Council on
Economic Mobility?
3.2 As a state, community, or
provider, what are your suggestions for
how to make federal workforce and
work support programs work better
together in your state or community at
this time and in the long-term? Please
share any examples of effective federal
program coordination.
3.3 As a state, community, or
provider, what do you think are the
immediate barriers preventing federal
workforce and work support programs
from collaborating in your state or
community? What are the long-term
barriers?
3.4 How can federal agencies
collaborate and coordinate to help
program operators foster participant
economic mobility, recovery, and
resilience, using administrative
authorities such as joint
communications, technical assistance,
and program guidance? What are
specific examples based on your
experience?
3.5 How are program cliff effects and
high effective marginal tax rates
impacting the economic mobility of
individuals and families in your
community? What methods are being
used to address these challenges?
NOTE: An effective marginal tax rate
is the proportion of new earnings owed
in taxes or needed to offset reductions
in program benefits and quantifies the
share of new earnings not available to
families. For example, if a family earns
an additional $400 during the year
which prompts a $200 reduction in
program benefits, this is an effective
marginal tax rate of 50 percent on their
new earnings. A program ‘‘cliff effect’’
refers to a marginal tax rate of 100
percent or more. This results from a loss
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of benefits that equals or exceeds the
earnings gain. That is, 100 percent or
more of new earnings are eclipsed by
benefit losses.
3.6 What kind of federal operational
systems—such as data interoperability,
grant, and contract mechanisms—would
make it easier to meet your goals related
to economic mobility?
3.7 What are the most significant
challenges that prevent participants/
recipients of federal workforce, work
support, and housing programs from
fully participating in such programs? Do
these challenges present obstacles for
participants in meeting their economic
and employment goals? For example,
are there barriers related to child care,
transportation, health, disability, caring
for a family member, substance use
disorder, etc.?
3.8 How can federal agencies better
work together to help participants,
including those facing multiple barriers,
overcome these barriers in the short
term and achieve economic mobility
and resilience in the long term?
3.9 What federal rules do you wish
had more flexibility? What flexibilities
do you need to respond to economic
crises?
3.10 What do you wish government
officials knew about your work?
3.11 What workforce and work
support programs more easily align with
others?
3.12 What are your suggestions for
how to proactively support workforce
preparation prior to an individual
needing to participate in a federal
workforce or work support program,
such as programs focused on youth?
3.13 Are there existing workforce
programs or strategies that have not
historically been widely accessible to
lower income individuals and families
that could help them achieve economic
mobility, recovery, and resilience if they
had better access to them? If so, please
identify.
3.14 How does your program define
and measure economic mobility? What
data do you use?
3.15 Do you have recommendations
for how to define and measure
economic mobility that could be used
across different programs?
Dated: July 9, 2020.
Brenda Destro,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation, Office of Human Services Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Privacy Act of 1974; System of
Records
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Health, Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of a new system of
records.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974,
as amended, the Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS) is
establishing a new system of records,
09–90–2002, ‘‘COVID–19 Insights
Collaboration Records.’’ HHS will use
the records in this system of records to
create and maintain a new database to
be used by HHS to understand, track,
and respond to the novel coronavirus
known as SARS–CoV–2 and the
outbreak of COVID–19 (the disease
caused by SARS–CoV–2) which the
Secretary of Health and Human Services
declared a public health emergency
effective January 27, 2020, and the
World Health Organization (WHO)
declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020.
Creating and maintaining the new
database may include retrieving
identifiable records about patients by
the patients’ personal identifiers in
order to connect, combine, or deduplicate records that are about the
same individual; however, at this time,
HHS does not plan to retrieve records by
personal identifier when using the
resulting database for research, analysis,
or other public health activities.
DATES: The new system of records is
applicable July 16, 2020, subject to a 30day period in which to comment on the
routine uses.
ADDRESSES: The public should address
written comments by email to
beth.kramer@hhs.gov or by mail to Beth
Kramer, HHS Privacy Act Officer, FOIA/
Privacy Act Division, Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs,
200 Independence Ave. SW,
Washington, DC 20201.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
General questions about the new system
of records may be submitted by email to
beth.kramer@hhs.gov or by mail to Beth
Kramer, HHS Privacy Act Officer, FOIA/
Privacy Act Division, Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs,
200 Independence Ave. SW,
Washington, DC 20201, (202) 690–6941.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The new
system of records will cover any
identifiable records about patients that
are retrieved by personal identifier for
the purpose of creating and maintaining
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a new database that HHS will use for
research, analysis, or other public health
activities to understand, track, and
respond to the novel coronavirus,
SARS–CoV–2, which causes the disease
known as COVID–19. The Department
of Energy (DOE) will create and
maintain the database for HHS at DOE’s
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
HHS will create the new database
using certain existing patient records at
federal agencies, and potentially at state
agencies and private sector entities,
about patients who have and, for control
purposes, have not, tested positive for
COVID–19 or antibodies to same. The
new database will also include
geospatial records, population density
records, and other types of existing
records that are not individually
identifiable but that HHS determines are
useful to include. However, the Privacy
Act system of records only governs
individually identifiable records that are
retrieved by a personal identifier.
Custodians of the records that HHS, as
a public health authority, determines
are useful for COVID–19-related public
health activities will donate data to
ORNL for inclusion in the new database.
At the time of publication, HHS
anticipates that the COVID Insights
Collaboration Database will include
records from the Department of Veterans
Affairs’ (DVA) Veterans Health
Administration (VHA) Corporate Data
Warehouse and from the Department of
Defense’s (DoD) Military Health
Information System. Other sources of
records may be added later.
HHS is relying on its status as a
public health authority under 42 U.S.C.
241 and 247d to obtain, compile, and
analyze these data. In the course of
creating and maintaining the database,
ORNL may retrieve identifiable records
by patients’ personal identifiers in order
to connect, combine, or de-duplicate
records that are about the same
individual. At this time, HHS does not
plan to retrieve records by personal
identifier when using the resulting
database for research, analysis, or other
public health activities.
HHS provided advance notice of the
new system of records to the Office of
Management and Budget and Congress
as required by 5 U.S.C. 552a(r) and OMB
Circular A–108.
Beth Kramer,
HHS Privacy Act Officer, FOIA/Privacy Act
Division, Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Public Affairs.
SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER:
COVID–19 Insights Collaboration
Records, 09–90–2002.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of the Secretary
Request for Information on Federal Coordination To Promote
Economic Mobility for All Americans
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
(ASPE), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Request for Information.
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SUMMARY: HHS is publishing this Request for Information (RFI) to seek
public input on the development of a federal interagency Council on
Economic Mobility (Council). HHS and the Council will analyze
information collected in this RFI to gather feedback from our
stakeholders to better inform the Council's priorities and how the
Council can promote economic mobility, recovery, and resilience.
DATES: Submit written comments at the address provided below no later
than October 2, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted to [email protected].
HHS encourages the early submission of comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The ASPE Council team at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Invitation to Comment: HHS invites comments
regarding the questions included in this notice. To ensure that your
comments are clearly stated, please identify the specific question, or
other section of this notice, that your comments address.
1.0 Background
As announced in HHS's 2020 Congressional Justification, HHS is
leading the development and establishment of an interagency Council on
Economic Mobility (Council). The Council is composed of the heads of
member agencies (HHS; the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Education,
Labor, Housing and Urban Development [HUD], and Treasury; the Social
Security Administration [SSA]; and the Council of Economic Advisors
[CEA]) or their delegates. HHS will also serve as the first Council
chair.
As an administratively established group, the Council is
constrained to activities and authorities contained in current law. As
an interagency group, the Council is focusing on areas that are
crosscutting, issues that cannot be accomplished by a single agency on
its own, seeking to create an accountable and effective structure for
interagency collaboration and using federal authorities to promote
family-sustaining careers and economic mobility for low-income
Americans. The Council aims to promote economic recovery and build
resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, learning from the
response to build a more integrated and effective long-term federal
strategy to promote economic mobility and help individuals sustain
their economic success.
Many federal workforce and work support programs and services are
overseen by the Council member agencies, such as the Child Care and
Development Fund, Medicaid, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Employment and Training, the Family Self-Sufficiency program, the Jobs
Plus program, Vocational Rehabilitation programs, and Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act programs, among others. For examples of
more potential programs, go to https://tinyurl.com/CouncilonEconomicMobility.
2.0 Request for Information
Through this RFI, HHS and its interagency partners (Agriculture,
Education, Labor, HUD, Treasury, SSA, CEA, the Office of Management and
Budget, and the Domestic Policy Council) seek to gather feedback from
our stakeholders--state and local government agencies, local program
operators, and the people that we serve. The information gathered in
response to the RFI will be used to better inform the Council's
priorities, working group activities, stakeholder engagement, and
federal programs. Council members and the entire U.S. government are
committed to a healthy and resilient America. COVID-19 has touched
individuals and families in every corner of America--with communities
across the country experiencing the pandemic in different ways.
Feedback on the specific economic mobility, recovery, and resilience
challenges in local communities in the short, medium, and long term is
welcome.
3.0 Key Questions
3.1 What priorities would you identify for the new federal Council
on Economic Mobility?
3.2 As a state, community, or provider, what are your suggestions
for how to make federal workforce and work support programs work better
together in your state or community at this time and in the long-term?
Please share any examples of effective federal program coordination.
3.3 As a state, community, or provider, what do you think are the
immediate barriers preventing federal workforce and work support
programs from collaborating in your state or community? What are the
long-term barriers?
3.4 How can federal agencies collaborate and coordinate to help
program operators foster participant economic mobility, recovery, and
resilience, using administrative authorities such as joint
communications, technical assistance, and program guidance? What are
specific examples based on your experience?
3.5 How are program cliff effects and high effective marginal tax
rates impacting the economic mobility of individuals and families in
your community? What methods are being used to address these
challenges?
NOTE: An effective marginal tax rate is the proportion of new
earnings owed in taxes or needed to offset reductions in program
benefits and quantifies the share of new earnings not available to
families. For example, if a family earns an additional $400 during the
year which prompts a $200 reduction in program benefits, this is an
effective marginal tax rate of 50 percent on their new earnings. A
program ``cliff effect'' refers to a marginal tax rate of 100 percent
or more. This results from a loss
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of benefits that equals or exceeds the earnings gain. That is, 100
percent or more of new earnings are eclipsed by benefit losses.
3.6 What kind of federal operational systems--such as data
interoperability, grant, and contract mechanisms--would make it easier
to meet your goals related to economic mobility?
3.7 What are the most significant challenges that prevent
participants/recipients of federal workforce, work support, and housing
programs from fully participating in such programs? Do these challenges
present obstacles for participants in meeting their economic and
employment goals? For example, are there barriers related to child
care, transportation, health, disability, caring for a family member,
substance use disorder, etc.?
3.8 How can federal agencies better work together to help
participants, including those facing multiple barriers, overcome these
barriers in the short term and achieve economic mobility and resilience
in the long term?
3.9 What federal rules do you wish had more flexibility? What
flexibilities do you need to respond to economic crises?
3.10 What do you wish government officials knew about your work?
3.11 What workforce and work support programs more easily align
with others?
3.12 What are your suggestions for how to proactively support
workforce preparation prior to an individual needing to participate in
a federal workforce or work support program, such as programs focused
on youth?
3.13 Are there existing workforce programs or strategies that have
not historically been widely accessible to lower income individuals and
families that could help them achieve economic mobility, recovery, and
resilience if they had better access to them? If so, please identify.
3.14 How does your program define and measure economic mobility?
What data do you use?
3.15 Do you have recommendations for how to define and measure
economic mobility that could be used across different programs?
Dated: July 9, 2020.
Brenda Destro,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of Human
Services Policy.
[FR Doc. 2020-15319 Filed 7-15-20; 8:45 am]
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