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2021 Federal Plain Language Report Card
This is the 10th time the Center for Plain Language has issued a yearly Report Card evaluating how well agencies follow the Plain Writing Act. For this 10th anniversary, we evaluated 21 Executive Branch agencies, including all 15 cabinet-level departments. Agencies earned grades between A and F for both organizational compliance, covering the staffing, training, […]
2020 Federal Plain Language Report Card
A decade ago, Congress passed the Plain Writing Act to ensure that people can understand the information they receive from federal agencies. Since 2012, the Center for Plain Language has issued a yearly report card evaluating how well agencies follow this law. This year we evaluated 20 Executive Branch agencies, including all 15 cabinet-level […]
2019 Federal Report Card
Background and Methodology In 2010, Congress passed the Plain Writing Act to ensure that people can understand the information they receive from federal agencies. Since 2012, the Center for Plain Language has issued a yearly report card evaluating how well agencies follow this law. This year, we evaluated 21 Executive Branch agencies, including all 15 […]
2018 Report Card: Most-Visited Agency Webpages
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: How to Negotiate with a Debt Collector Department of Agriculture: Choose my plate Department of Commerce: National Weather Service Department of Defense: Tricare Department of Education: Student Loans Department of Energy: How do wind turbines work? Department of Health and Human Services: Lyme disease — Signs and Symptoms Department of Homeland […]
2018 Report Card
Who and what we graded in 2018 We evaluated 23 Executive Branch agencies, including all 15 cabinet-level departments, in terms of both writing and organizational compliance with the Plain Writing Act. This is the first time since 2015 we have evaluated organizational compliance (which covers internal staffing, communication, and training and which we had stopped […]