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Daily Archives: August 14, 2008

New GAO Reports: Drug Control, TSA Has Developed a Risk-Based Covert Testing Program

Drug Control: Cooperation with Many Major Drug Transit Countries Has Improved, but Better Performance Reporting and Sustainability Plans Are Needed, GAO-08-784, July 15, 2008 – “Each year, criminal organizations transport hundreds of tons of illegal drugs from South America to the United States through a 6 million square mile “transit zone” including Central America, the… Continue Reading

Census Bureau: An Older and More Diverse Nation by Midcentury

News release: “The nation will be more racially and ethnically diverse, as well as much older, by midcentury, according to projections released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Minorities, now roughly one-third of the U.S. population, are expected to become the majority in 2042, with the nation projected to be 54 percent minority in 2050.… Continue Reading

WTO Trade Policy Review Body – Report by the Secretariat – China – Revision

Trade Policy Review Body – Trade Policy Review – Report by the Secretariat – China – Revision, 12/08/2008: “Continued trade liberalization has remained an integral part of the China’s long-standing structural reform strategy, which is aimed at establishing an outward-oriented “socialist market economy” that can deliver sustained economic growth and facilitate poverty reduction. The ongoing… Continue Reading