FTC 2008 budget
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FTC Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras requested a budget of $240.2 mil., and 1,084 full-time employees for fiscal year 2008 when she testified Feb. 28 in front of the House Appropriations Subcomittee on Financial Services and General Government. The request represents a $17.2 mil. increase over FTC's FY 2007 budget, $4.5 mil. of which would be put toward consumer protection enforcement, analysis and outreach...
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