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Advantages of Mileage-Based User Fees for Transportation Funding — Dec 31, 2012

An illustrated guide provides state and local decisionmakers with a high-level synopsis of mileage fee issues: policy motivations, technical options, key challenges, and emerging strategies to address those challenges.

What Role Can Schools Play in Addressing Student Mental Health? — Dec 28, 2012

Student mental health programs can improve staff, faculty, and student knowledge of mental health problems, provide skills for identifying and referring students in need, and change attitudes toward mental health problems.

Rapid Acquisition and Fielding for Information Assurance and Cyber Security in the Navy — Dec 21, 2012

The U.S. Navy requires an agile, adaptable acquisition process that can field new IT capabilities and services quickly. Successful rapid acquisition programs in the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps offer lessons for the Navy as it develops its own streamlined processes for computer network defense and similar program areas.

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Seth A. Seabury

Associate Director, Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace

Seth A. Seabury

Seth Seabury is an economist at the RAND Corporation and the associate director of the RAND Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace. His research focuses on law and health care policy, with a particular emphasis on efforts to improve the medical malpractice and workers' compensation…

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