Strategic Goal 1: Financial Security and Well-Being

Provide Timely, Quality Service to the Congress and the Federal Government to Address Current and Emerging Challenges to the Well-Being and Financial Security of the American People

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Our first strategic goal upholds our mission to support the Congress in carrying out its constitutional responsibilities by focusing on work that helps address the current and emerging challenges affecting the well-being and financial security of the American people and American communities. Our multiyear (fiscal years 2007-2012) strategic objectives under this goal are to provide information that will help address the health needs of an aging and diverse population; lifelong learning to enhance U.S. competitiveness; benefits and protections for workers, families, and children; financial security for an aging population; a responsive, fair, and effective system of justice; the promotion of viable communities; responsible stewardship of natural resources and the environment; and a safe, secure, and effective national physical infrastructure. These objectives, along with the performance goals and key efforts that support them, are discussed fully in our strategic plan, which is available on our Web site at http://www.gao.gov/sp.html. The work supporting these objectives was performed primarily by headquarters and field office staff in the following teams: Education, Workforce, and Income Security; Financial Markets and Community Investment; Health Care; Homeland Security and Justice; Natural Resources and Environment; and Physical Infrastructure. In line with our performance goals and key efforts, goal 1 staff reviewed a variety of programs affecting the nation’s students and schools, employees and workplaces, health providers and patients, and social service providers and recipients. In addition, goal 1 staff performed work for our congressional clients related to improving the nation’s law enforcement systems and federal agencies’ ability to prevent and respond to terrorism and other major crimes. To accomplish our work under these strategic objectives in fiscal year 2009, we conducted engagements, audits, analyses, and evaluations of programs at major federal agencies, such as the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security (DHS), Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and the Interior, and developed reports and testimonies on the efficacy and soundness of programs they administer.

Stakeholder(s):

• Congress
  •  (Beneficiary)


• Federal Government
  •  (Beneficiary)


• American People
  •  (Beneficiary)

Objective(s):

1: All Financial Security and Well-Being Objectives

1.1: Health

1.2: Lifelong Learning

1.3: Benefits and Protections

1.4: Financial Security

1.5: Justice

1.6: Communities

1.7: Natural Resources and the Environment

1.8: Infrastructure

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