Most improvements to federal departments and independent agencies recommended by the investigative arm of Congress were successfully implemented, according to an analysis made public Wednesday.

Using a sophisticated form of data-driven textual analysis, the research group Deloitte LLP found that 81 percent of more than 40,000 recommendations made by the Government Accountability Office over the past 31 years were successfully implemented.

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