US Court: “New poverty guidelines for 2009, needed by persons seeking fee waivers when filing for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, have been posted. Guidelines and Other Bankruptcy Resources.”
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Monthly Archives: January 2009
TARP Program Contract Term Document Library
Capital Purchase Program: Application Documents Completed Transactions: Contract Terms Targeted Investment Program: Contract Terms Systemically Significantly Failing Institutions: Contract Terms Automotive Industry Financing Program: Contract Terms Related postings on financial system Continue Reading
Foreign-Born Exceed the Native-Born in Advanced Degrees
News release: “A larger percentage of foreign-born than native-born residents had a masters degree or higher in 2007, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Nationally, 11 percent of foreign-born people from another country now living in the United States and 10 percent of U.S.-born residents had an advanced degree.… Continue Reading
Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism Launches New Media Index
“The New Media Index is a weekly report that captures the leading commentary of blogs and social media sites focused on news and compares those subjects to that of the mainstream press. PEJ is launching the New Media Index as a companion to its weekly News Coverage Index. Blogs and other new media are an… Continue Reading
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Issues New Audit Reports
The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction issued the following new audits: 09-009 Full Impact of Department of Defense Program to Restart State-owned Enterprises Difficult to Estimate, January 30, 2009: “Task Force efforts have served to help restart state-owned factories and provide employment in a difficult security environment. However, the full measure of their impact… Continue Reading
EPIC: House Economic Recovery Bill Includes Privacy Safeguards for Medical Information
“The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, adopted by the House this week, includes strong privacy provisions (“Subtitle D – Privacy“) for the proposed medical health network. Among the key provisions: a ban on the sale of health information, audit trails, encryption, rights of access, improved enforcement mechanisms, and support for advocacy groups to… Continue Reading
GPO: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Supplemental appropriations for job creation and preservation infrastructure investment, energy efficiency/science, assistance to the unemployed, and State/local fiscal stabilization: H.R. 1 – American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (680 pages, PDF) Related postings on financial system More documents via U.S. News.com Stimulus Watch Continue Reading
OMB Watch Report Documents Midnight Regs by Bush Administration
After Midnight – The Bush legacy of deregulation and what Obama can do, Reece Rushing, Rick Melberth, and Matt Madia, January 2009. “The Bush administration rushed out a host of problematic regulations in its final months. Many of these midnight regulations actually represent deregulatory actions that weaken or eliminate safeguards protecting health, safety, the environment,… Continue Reading
Troubled Asset Relief Program: Status of Efforts to Address Transparency and Accountability Issues
Troubled Asset Relief Program: Status of Efforts to Address Transparency and Accountability Issues, GAO-09-296, January 30, 2009. “As of January 23, 2009, Treasury had disbursed about $293.7 billion of the $700 billion in program funds. Most of the funds (about $194.2 billion) went to purchase preferred shares of 317 financial institutions under the Capital Purchase… Continue Reading
Media Tracking of the 44th President Leverages Web 2.0 Spin
Politico 44, dubbed “a living diary of the Obama Presidency,” provides readers with an aggregated melange of government documents, issue oriented media coverage in print and video, and well, gossip. Continue Reading
National Gang Threat Assessment 2009
National Gang Threat Assessment 2009 “This intelligence assessment is a collaborative effort between the National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) and the NDIC to examine the threat posed to the United States by criminal gangs; it supports U.S. Department of Justice strategic objectives 2.2 (to reduce the threat, incidence, and prevalence of violent crime) and 2.4… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Military Base Realignments and Closures, Info Security, School Meal Programs, TARP
Military Base Realignments and Closures: DOD Faces Challenges in Implementing Recommendations on Time and Is Not Consistently Updating Savings Estimates, GAO-09-217, January 30, 2009 Information Security: Further Actions Needed to Address Risks to Bank Secrecy Act Data, GAO-09-195, January 30, 2009 Meal Counting and Claiming by Food Service Management Companies in the School Meal Programs,… Continue Reading
