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Daily Archives: June 30, 2008

EIA: Next Stop for Oil Prices: $100 or $150?

DOD: Report on Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan

Report on Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan, June 2008. Report to Congress in accordance with the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (Section 1230, Public Law 110-181), Unclassified. “After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States and our international partners toppled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, ending years of brutal misrule and… Continue Reading

DOD: United States Plan for Sustaining the Afghanistan National Security Forces

United States Plan for Sustaining the Afghanistan National Security Forces, June 2008. Report to Congress in accordance with the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (Section 1231, Public Law 110-181), Unclassified. “Developing the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), which includes both the Afghan National Army (ANA) and Afghan National Police (ANP), is one of the United… Continue Reading

CBO: Recent Trends in the Variability of Individual Earnings and Household Income

Congressional Budget office: Recent Trends in the Variability of Individual Earnings and Household Income, June 2008: “This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paper, prepared at the request of Senator Charles E. Schumer and Senator Jim Webb, uses administrative and survey data to examine year-to-year changes in individual earnings and household income since 1984. It also examines… Continue Reading

40th Anniversary of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

“Near the end of the protracted negotiations that produced the historic Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) 40 years ago, U.S. government officials warned that countries could legally reach “nuclear pregnancy” under the Treaty and then withdraw and quickly acquire nukes, according to declassified U.S. government documents published on the Web today by the National Security Archive.… Continue Reading

New GAO Reports: Electronic Payments, Joint Forum on Tax Compliance, Medicaid Supplemental Payments, Nuclear Safety

Electronic Payments: Many Programs Electronically Disburse Federal Benefits, and More Outreach Could Increase Use, GAO-08-645, June 23, 2008 Highlights of the Joint Forum on Tax Compliance: Options for Improvement and Their Budgetary Potential, GAO-08-703SP, June 30, 2008 Medicaid: CMS Needs More Information on the Billions of Dollars Spent on Supplemental Payments, GAO-08-614, May 30, 2008… Continue Reading

New on LLRX.com: 60 Gadgets in 60 Minutes, FOIA Facts, Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide

FOIA Facts: My Proposals for the FOIA: Following up on the passage earlier this year of the OPEN Government Act of 2007, FOIA expert Scott A. Hodes make two proposals absent from the law, but which would help FOIA requesters. — Published June 29, 2008 60 Gadgets in 60 Minutes – Three techie gurus (Barbara… Continue Reading

World Bank: World Trade Indicators 2008

“The World Trade Indicators (WTI), an interactive tool designed to benchmark a country’s trade policy and institutions and help policy makers, advisors, and analysts’ identify the main border and behind-the border constraints to trade integration. The WTI 2008 database is organized in five thematic categories, namely Trade Policy, External Environment, Institutional Environment, Trade Facilitation and… Continue Reading