Press release: “Each year, millions of students seek help in financing their college education, and some fall prey to scholarship and financial aid scams that guarantee money for college in exchange for a fee. In 2000, Congress passed the College Scholarship Fraud Prevention Act to help federal agencies crack down on those scams. The Federal Trade Commission and the Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Education (ED) have issued their annual report to Congress describing their continued efforts to combat scholarship and financial aid fraud.”
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Daily Archives: May 23, 2007
International Biodefense Handbook 2007
International Biodefense Handbook 2007, by Sergio Bonin, published by the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, May 1, 2007. “The handbook compares different political, strategic, and structural approaches to biosecurity in seven countries and five international and supra-national organizations. It provides an overview of national and multilateral biodefense efforts by examining important policies in this… Continue Reading
Pew Research Survey on Spam 2007
Press release: “The volume of spam is growing in Americans’ personal and workplace emailaccounts, but email users are less bothered by it. Spam continues to plague the internet as more Americans than ever say they are getting more spam than in the past. But while American internet users report increasing volumes of spam, they also… Continue Reading
Amnesty International Report 2007
Amnesty International Report 2007. “This report documents human rights issues of concern to Amnesty International during 2006.” Continue Reading
Healthy People 2010 Midcourse Review Now Online
“The Healthy People 2010 Midcourse Review presents an assessment of the Nation’s progress toward increasing the quality and years of healthy life and eliminating health disparities for all Americans, halfway through the first decade of the 21st century. For three decades, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has established and monitored national… Continue Reading
Monica Goodling Testifies at Judiciary Committee Hearing
Follow up to previous posting on former DoJ Official Monica Goodling and the U.S. Attorney firings, the text of Goodling’s written remarks and the text of her testimony, before the House Judiciary Committee, May 23, 2007. See also DOJ Document Sets Released on 5-22-2007: Letter from Deputy AG Regarding Goodling Privledge Log Documents DOJ Document… Continue Reading
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Energy Sources 2006 Flash Estimate
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Energy Sources 2006 Flash Estimate (05/23/2007): “The flash estimate is based on data published in the Energy Information Administration’s Monthly Energy Review (April 2007). These estimates are considered to be preliminary. More detailed estimates of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from all sources, energy and non-energy, will appear in the report Emissions… Continue Reading
Report on Iran Safeguards Sent to IAEA Board, Security Council
Report on Iran Safeguards Sent to International Atomic Energy Agency Board, Security Council Staff Report, 23 May 2007: “IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei has circulated his latest report to the upcoming meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors on the Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolutions in the… Continue Reading
OMB Orders Agencies to Eliminate Unnecessary Collection of Social Security Numbers
Clay Johnson III, Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget: M-07-16, Safeguarding Against and Responding to the Breach of Personally Identifiable Information, May 22, 2007 (22 pages, PDF) “As part of the work of the Identify Theft Task Force, this memorandum requires agencies to develop and implement a breach notification policy within 120… Continue Reading
OECD finds the real piracy losses
OECD finds the real piracy losses ============================================================ Financial Times obtained an executive summary of a new report produced by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that estimates the trade losses due to piracy and counterfeiting did not exceed 200 billion USD. The report should be endorsed by the OECD board this month and is… Continue Reading
Recent CRS Reports on Immigration Reform, Iraq, Israel and Climate Change
Immigration Reform: Brief Synthesis of Issue, Updated May 10, 2007 Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security, Updated May 10, 2007 Iraq: Government Formation and Performance, Updated May 2, 2007 Israel: Background and Relations with the United States, Updated April 30, 2007 Climate Change: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Bills in the 110th Congress, Updated April 24, 2007 Continue Reading
AG's Annual Report to Congress on U.S. Government Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons for FY 2006
Attorney General’s Annual Report to Congress on U.S. Government Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons for Fiscal Year 2006, May 2007 Continue Reading
