EDR Group is currently involved with two separate national evaluation studies, one for the U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) and one for the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), both focusing on job impacts in particular state economies.

For the USDOE, EDR Group, as part of the KEMA team, is involved in a multi-year evaluation to examine the role of  American Reinvestment Recovery Act (ARRA) funding for the years 2009 through 2012 supporting the State Energy Program (SEP) which funds energy-efficiency and renewable capacity outcomes. The nationwide study will also evaluate the pre-ARRA SEP for 2008 as an indication of what program-related impacts are likely to revert to once ARRA funding ends. EDR Group is responsible for gauging the forecast of job impacts that result from short-term investment related changes and from the longer-term energy savings implications and fuel substitution effects.

As part of the Cambridge Systematics team, EDR Group is contributing to the job impact evaluation of ARRA funding towards US DOT highway, bridge, and safety improvements. The evaluation emphasis is ultimately to develop a framework to measure total job impacts, inclusive of multiplier effects, related to construction spending for highway and bridge projects funded in part or in total by ARRA monies. This framework can provide a model applicable for surface transportation project investments regardless of funding source. EDR Group is also examining case studies of observed job impacts to complement the statistical examination of job impact data assemlbed through RECOVERY.GOV.