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Measurement absentUnited StatesMissing 3

FAA cut the controller availability factor to 1.87 for FY2026, setting a staffing target of 12,563 without publishing how trainees count

The Federal Aviation Administration publishes a controller workforce plan every year, and the edition dated 2026-06-01 sets the FY2026 total staffing target at 12,563 controllers. That number is the product of an input the agency changed in the same document. The plan states tha…

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DOT Office of Inspector General
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23
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0
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Institutional gapUnited StatesMissing 1

Federal agencies are not required to plan replacement of decades-old critical systems, and OMB had not issued guidance as of February 2026

The Government Accountability Office screened 69 federal legacy IT systems submitted by agencies and selected the 11 most in need of modernization, held by 10 agencies. That list was published on 2025-07-17 in GAO-25-107795, a report to the House Committee on Oversight and Gover…

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The Government Accountability Office (GAO)
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21
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Coordination failureUnited StatesMissing 2

A single 2023 coordination recommendation sits open in three separate priority letters to financial regulators dated June 2026

The Government Accountability Office designates a subset of the open recommendations it holds against each federal agency as priority, and writes once a year to that agency head about them. The letters of the 2026 cycle read here are dated from 2026-06-09 to 2026-08-12, one agen…

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The Government Accountability Office (GAO)
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21
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Enforcement absentUnited StatesMissing 1

Congress required an impaired-driving detection standard in new vehicles by November 2024 — as of August 2026 no rule has been proposed

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, enacted 2021-11-15, directs the Secretary of Transportation to issue a final Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard requiring advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology in new passenger vehicles. Section 24220 of that act…

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National Transportation Safety Board
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25
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0
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12,581–13,384as of 2021
Cost structureUnited StatesMissing 2

Indian Health Service spending was USD 4,078 per user in FY2023 and its 2026 appropriation was set from fiscal 2025 enacted levels

The Indian Health Service is the federal agency responsible for health care for members of 574 federally recognized tribes in 37 states. On its own profile page, marked as based on 2022 data, the population served is 2.8 million American Indians and Alaska Natives. The same page…

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Native News Online
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22
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0
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2,800,000as of 2022 data, published on the agency profile page captured 2025-03-19
Institutional exemptionUnited StatesMissing 2

EPA requires lead service lines replaced by 2037-12-31, and its August 2026 tips treat four attempts without permission as lack of access

The US Environmental Protection Agency published the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements as a final rule on 2024-10-30 at 89 FR 86418, Federal Register document number 2024-23549, effective 2024-12-30. It amends 40 CFR Parts 141 and 142 under RIN 2040-AG16, lowers the lead action …

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E&E News
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21
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0
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Institutional gapUnited StatesMissing 4

Four in ten rural US hospitals still deliver babies as of July 2026, and the 2025 federal rural health program does not name maternity care

Rural hospitals in the United States are ending hospital-based labor and delivery. A running count kept by a health care payment research organization records 146 rural hospitals that stopped delivering babies or announced they will stop before the end of 2026, counting from the…

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Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform
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21
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0
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Institutional exemptionAustraliaMissing 4

The Australian insolvency safety net pays wages, leave and redundancy but not compulsory superannuation — as of 2026-08-23 a 2024 change funds recovery attempts, not payment

Australian employers must pay superannuation contributions for their employees, and the Australian Taxation Office assesses the shortfall as a superannuation guarantee charge when they do not. The net superannuation guarantee gap was AUD 6.25 billion for the 2022-23 financial ye…

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9
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Incentive inversionCanadaMissing 3

Canada issued 192,240 employer-specific work permits in 2024, and the ordinary route to a different employer requires the new employer to first obtain a Labour Market Impact Assessment

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program of Canada runs on employer-specific work permits, sometimes called closed permits. 192,240 of them were issued in 2024. A closed permit fixes four things at once — the employer, the occupation, the wage and the work location. Moving to a diff…

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7
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Institutional gapGlobalMissing 1

Accession to the 1954 and 1961 statelessness conventions is a unilateral act that no other body can perform, close to half of all states submit no statistics on statelessness, and the global alliance launched in October 2024 carries no numerical target and no end date as of 2026-08-23

Two treaties already exist for this. The 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons defines in law who is stateless and sets a floor of rights for that person. The 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness sets out the procedures by which states grant na…

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4
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4,500,000as of end of 2025
Institutional gapSouth KoreaMissing 2

2026년 7월 기준 야간 산불 진화 헬기 8대 중 가용은 5대 — 같은 9월 말 기한이 1월과 7월에 두 번 제시됐다

2026년 7월 16일 산림청 업무보고에서, 야간에 산불을 진화할 수 있는 헬기가 8대인데 실제로 야간에 투입할 수 있는 것은 5대라는 사실이 확인됐습니다. 8대의 구성은 수리온 3대 · S-64 4대 · 시누크 1대입니다. 같은 지적이 그해 1월 27일 국무회의에서 이미 한 차례 나왔고, 두 자리 모두에서 산림청은 9월 말까지 야간 헬기를 전량 가용 상태로 만들겠다고 답했습니다. 그 기한은 이 문서의 기준일인 2026년 8월 23일에 아직 오지 않았고, 그때까지의 중간 이행 상황을 공표한 자료…

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13
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Enforcement absentNew ZealandMissing 3

Published guidance says a New Zealand court usually signs an urgent temporary protection order within 24 to 48 hours, and gives no timeframe for the delivery step that a conviction for breaching that order generally depends on

Under the Family Violence Act 2018 a New Zealand court can make a temporary protection order without notice, which means the order is made before the person it is made against has been told that an application exists. The order takes legal effect the moment a judge signs it.

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Enforcement absentUnited StatesMissing 2

A federal agency has 20 working days under Section 552 of Title 5 to decide a records request — when the period lapses the statute attaches no penalty to the agency and leaves enforcement to a lawsuit the requester must bring

The Freedom of Information Act, Section 552 of Title 5 of the United States Code, gives a federal agency 20 working days to make a determination on a records request. The statute allows an extension of ten more working days in unusual circumstances, on written notice to the requ…

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9
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Institutional gapAustraliaMissing 3

A 2023 Australian parliamentary inquiry asked for a national online gambling regulator and a phased total advertising ban — as of 2026-08-20 neither exists, and the narrower bill written instead has passed only one chamber

In 2023 a standing committee of the Australian House of Representatives reported on online gambling harm in a report titled You Win Some, You Lose More, carrying 31 recommendations. The two heaviest were a phased total ban on online gambling advertising across all media and the …

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14
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Institutional gapCanadaMissing 1

Canada missed two self-set launch dates for a national flood insurance backstop — 1.5 million highest-risk households remain outside any federal program

Canada has no national flood insurance program. The federal government has said since 2019 that it would build one, and as of 2026-08-20 it has not.

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13
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1,500,000as of 2022, restated in 2024 and 2026
Coordination failureGlobalMissing 2

A G20 debt restructuring framework created in 2020 has still produced no final deal in the case Ethiopia filed in 2021, more than five years later

The G20 and the Paris Club created the Common Framework for Debt Treatments beyond the DSSI in November 2020. It is a coordination mechanism for restructuring the debt of the poorest sovereign borrowers, open to the 73 countries that were eligible for the Debt Service Suspension…

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Secondary
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not recorded
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17
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0
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213,500,000as of 2025 population estimates; framework status as of 2026-08-20
Enforcement absentSouth KoreaMissing 1

헌법불합치 결정에 따라 신설된 입원적합성심사위원회 — 보건복지부가 조사원의 대면 진술 기회를 설계로 밝혔는데 시행 초기 3개월 2018-05-30~08-31 심사 8,495건 중 대면조사는 16.5%, 퇴원 결정은 1.4%다

2016-09-29 헌법재판소는 보호의무자 2인의 동의와 정신과 전문의 1인의 진단만으로 정신질환자를 입원시킬 수 있게 한 옛 정신보건법 제24조 제1항·제2항에 대해 재판관 전원일치로 헌법불합치 결정을 냈습니다. 독립적이고 중립적인 절차 없이 입원이 이뤄져 제도가 악용·남용될 가능성이 있다는 것이 이유였고, 입법자가 고칠 때까지 그 조항을 잠정 적용하도록 했습니다. 사건번호는 2014헌가9 입니다.

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16
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33,980–37,953as of 2018~2019
Cost structureNew ZealandMissing 3

Close to half of existing wastewater discharge consents in New Zealand need renewal within the next decade as of 2024/25, while the standard is national and the funding unit is the district

New Zealand repealed the Three Waters programme through the Water Services Acts Repeal Act 2024, which passed on 2024-02-14. The replacement programme, Local Water Done Well, arrived in three further pieces of legislation. The Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrange…

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Secondary
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not recorded
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9
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Enforcement absentUnited StatesMissing 1

CMS set an 80 percent participation goal for Medicaid child health screenings in 1990 with a 1995 deadline — the national participation rate was 51 percent in fiscal 2023

Federal law makes preventive health screening a mandatory Medicaid benefit for enrolled children from birth through age 20. The benefit is called EPSDT — Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment — and it is defined at 42 U.S.C. 1396d(r). The Omnibus Budget Reconci…

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Secondary
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not recorded
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12
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13,700,000–14,400,000as of federal fiscal year 2017
Institutional exemptionAustraliaMissing 2

The Australian Privacy Act does not apply to most businesses below 3 million dollars in annual turnover — about 95 percent of trading businesses as of June 2021 — and the removal agreed in principle in 2023 has not been legislated

When the Privacy Act 1988 was extended to the private sector in 2000, the extension came with a carve-out. Section 6D defines a small business operator by annual turnover, and a business at or below 3 million Australian dollars is not an APP entity. The threshold is still 3 mill…

Resolution status
not confirmed
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Secondary
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not recorded
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13
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0
People affected
Not derivable