News release: “The number of people 5 and older who spoke a language other than English at home has more than doubled in the last three decades and at a pace four times greater than the nations population growth, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report analyzing data from the 2007 American Community Survey and over a time period from 1980 2007. In that time frame, the percentage of speakers of non-English languages grew by 140 percent while the nations overall population grew by 34 percent. Spanish speakers accounted for the largest numeric increase nationwide, there were 23.4 million more speakers in 2007 than in 1980 representing a 211 percent increase. The Vietnamese-speaking population accounted for the largest percentage increase of 511 percent (1.0 million speakers) over the same timeframe. The new report, Language Use in the United States: 2007, identifies the states with the highest concentrations of some of the most commonly spoken non-English languages. The languages, and some of the states with the highest percentage of speakers of these languages, include: Spanish (Texas, California and New Mexico), French (Louisiana and Maine), German (North Dakota and South Dakota), Slavic languages (Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut), Chinese (California, New York, Hawaii and Massachusetts) and Korean (Hawaii, California and New Jersey).”
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Daily Archives: April 27, 2010
Pew Report: Government Online
Government Online – The internet gives citizens new paths to government services and information. Aaron Smith, Research Specialist, April 27, 2010 Government agencies have begun to open up their data to the public, and a surprisingly large number of citizens are showing interest. Some 40% of adult internet users have gone online for raw data… Continue Reading
Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the AstraZeneca Settlement Announcement
News release: “Over the past 15 months, Secretary Sebelius [see also her news release] and I have made it a top priority of both our Departments to crack down on health care fraud, which we know costs taxpayers billions of dollars each year. Through our Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team, or HEAT,… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Coast Guard, Social Security Disability, TARP, Language Access, Medicare Contracting Reform
Coast Guard: Civil Rights Directorate’s Action Plans to Improve Its Operations Could Be Strengthened by Implementing Several Aspects of Project Planning and Implementation Practices, GAO-10-571T, April 27, 2010 Social Security Disability: Management of Disability Claims Workload Will Require Comprehensive Planning, GAO-10-667T, April 27, 2010 Troubled Asset Relief Program: Update of Government Assistance Provided to AIG,… Continue Reading
Home Prices Mixed in February 2010 According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices
News release: “Data through February 2010, released today by Standard & Poors for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show that the annual rates of decline of the 10-City and 20-City Composites improved in February compared to January 2010. For the first time since December 2006, the annual rates… Continue Reading
Opening Statement of Senator Carl Levin, U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Hearing, Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: The Role of Investment Banks
News release: “Today the Subcommittee holds the fourth in our series of hearings to explore some of the causes and consequences of the financial crisis. These hearings are the culmination of nearly a year and a half of investigation. The freezing of financial markets and collapse of financial institutions that sparked our investigation are not… Continue Reading
Site provide citizens withsingle destination to explore all the information from Data.gov
“Our long-term vision for ThisWeKnow is to model the entire data.gov catalog and make it available to the public using Semantic Web standards as a large-scale online database. ThisWeKnow will provide citizens with a single destination where they can search and browse all the information the government collects. It will also provide other application developers… Continue Reading
Unified Agenda, April 2010 Edition
“The Unified Agenda: Main Page – The Unified Agenda (also known as the Semiannual Regulatory Agenda), published twice a year (usually in April and October) in the Federal Register (FR), summarizes the rules and proposed rules that each Federal agency expects to issue during the next year. It is published by the Office of the… Continue Reading
DOT Denies Requests for Waiver of Tarmac Delay Rule
News release: “The U.S. Department of Transportation today denied the requests of five airlines for a temporary exemption from the new rule limiting tarmac delays. As a result, all U.S. carrier flights covered by the rule will be subject to its terms effective April 29….The tarmac delay provision was part of a new airline passenger… Continue Reading
Deloitte: A Summary of the Financial Reporting and Disclosure Implications of the Health Care Reform Legislation
Healthy Financial Reporting and Disclosure – A Summary of the Financial Reporting and Disclosure Implications of the Health Care Reform Legislation “Deloitte and Gibson Dunn have collaborated on the report below, which summarizes certain matters related to accounting and disclosures that public entities may need to consider as a result of the passage of the… Continue Reading
