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Government agencies use a variety of approaches to adjust government funding paid to non-government service providers to reflect changes in providers’ costs. For her research essay Cost adjustment of government funding paid to service providers, Shirley Nesbit interviewed officials from several government agencies to explore how government funding paid to non-government service providers is adjusted for inflation (or changes in costs). In her research, Shirley also examined why these adjustment approaches differ.
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