Median Household Income for Artists is Up, and Artists are an Increasing Part of the and Professional Labor Foce "Employment of fine artists is expected Occupational Outlook Handbook U.S. Dept. of Labor May 1992 Is the NEA Operating in Key Findings to Date: The NEA is not subject to the Chief Financial The NEA has not been subjected to any outside The NEA has unusually high administrative costs The NEA recently wasted almost a million dollars According to the NEA's own Inspector General, a 12 According to the NEA's own Inspector General, of the grantee audits performed between October 1, 1991 and March 31, 1996: 63% had project costs that were not reconcilable to their accounting records; 79% had inadequate documentation of personnel costs charged to the grant; 16% had failed to document common (indirect) costs which benefit all projects and activities of the 21% had failed to maintain internal controls, such as to insure the separation of duties. Source: Semi-annual Report to the Congress, Office of the Inspector General, NEA, p. 4, April 30, 1996 The NEA Has Repeatedly Failed to Fix the Problems • The IG has reported these same five weaknesses biannually for at least the last three years. Management has failed to take serious corrective action. Despite these very serious accounting and management problems, the IG's office has been cut disproportionately. 13 |