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- ↑ "Center for Effective Government Closes Doors". Philanthropy News Digest. March 21, 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
- ↑ Center for Effective Government - About Us
- ↑ Charity Navigator Rating - Center for Effective Government
- ↑ Josh Gerstein Group gives State Department 'F' on FOIA processing 10 March 2015
- 1 2 Wendy Feliz Challenging CBP’s Failure to Respond to FOIA Requests Immigration Impact, 16 March 2015
- ↑ David Dayen How the Government Is Rolling Over for Big Banks Again. The Fiscal Times, 28 August 2015
- ↑ Chris Isidore Uncle Sam's outsourcing tab: $517 billion CNNMoney 10 June 2013
- ↑ Testimony Archived March 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine 2004-2015, Center for Effective Government, retrieved 21 March 2016