“The Federal Judicial Caseload Statistics tables for courts of appeals, district courts, bankruptcy courts, and the federal probation system and pretrial services through March 31, 2008 are newly posted.”
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Daily Archives: January 23, 2009
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Volunteering in the United States, 2008
Volunteering in the United States, 2008: ” About 61.8 million people, or 26.4 percent of the population, volunteered through or for an organization at least once between September 2007 and September 2008, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Both the level and rate of volunteering were essentially unchanged… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Federal User Fees, Immigration Application Fees, VA Health Care
Federal User Fees: Additional Analyses and Timely Reviews Could Improve Immigration and Naturalization User Fee Design and USCIS Operations, GAO-09-180, January 23, 2009 Immigration Application Fees: Costing Methodology Improvements Would Provide More Reliable Basis for Setting Fees, GAO-09-70, January 23, 2009 VA Health Care: Long-Term Care Strategic Planning and Budgeting Need Improvement, GAO-09-145, January 23,… Continue Reading
FTC Launches Redress Program for Mortgage Loan Victims
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today announced that the agency returned almost $28 million to consumers this week as a result of a settlement with The Bear Stearns Companies, LLC and EMC Mortgage Corporation. Using the defendants records, about 86,000 consumers who had mortgage loans serviced by EMC have been mailed redress checks.” Continue Reading
2009 Poverty Guidelines – One Version of the [U.S.] Federal Poverty Measure
Health and Human Services 2009 Poverty Guidelines: There are two slightly different versions of the federal poverty measure: The poverty thresholds, and The poverty guidelines. The poverty thresholds are the original version of the federal poverty measure. They are updated each year by the Census Bureau (although they were originally developed by Mollie Orshansky of… Continue Reading
New Kind of Official Presidential Portrait Released
“Today we are releasing the new official portrait for President Barack Obama. It was taken by Pete Souza, the newly-announced official White House photographer. It is the first time that an official presidential portrait was taken with a digital camera. You can see the portrait [and] download a copy.” Continue Reading
