News release: “The Federal Communications Commission took an important step today toward promoting nationwide mobile connectivity for consumers and encouraging continued mobile innovation, investment, and deployment. The Commissions Order on Reconsideration enhances mobile voice service through roaming agreements that provide consumers with access to other carriers networks. In a Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2010
New GAO Reports: Federal Reserve Banks, National Flood Insurance, NextGen Air Transport, Surface Transportation Security
Federal Reserve Banks: Areas for Improvement in Information Security Controls, GAO-10-640R, April 21, 2010 National Flood Insurance Program: Continued Actions Needed to Address Financial and Operational Issues, GAO-10-631T, April 21, 2010 Next Generation Air Transportation System: Challenges with Partner Agency and FAA Coordination Continue, and Efforts to Integrate Near-, Mid-, and Long-term Activities Are Ongoing,… Continue Reading
Six Biggest Bank Holding Companies Bring in $18.7 Billion First Quarter Profits
CNNMoney.com: “The six biggest bank holding companies – Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500), JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500), Citigroup (C, Fortune 500), Wells Fargo (WFC, Fortune 500), Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500) and Morgan Stanley (MS, Fortune 500) – raked in $18.7 billion in profits in the first quarter. That’s more than six times… Continue Reading
Census Bureau Reports Nearly 6 in 10 Advanced Degree Holders Age 25-29 Are Women
News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau reported today more women than men are expected to occupy professions such as doctors, lawyers and college professors as they represent approximately 58 percent of young adults, age 25 to 29, who hold an advanced degree. In addition, among all adults 25 and older, more women than men had… Continue Reading
Brookings: The Financial Crisis' Effects on the Alternatives for Public Pensions
The Financial Crisis Effects on the Alternatives for Public Pensions, Pensions, Retirement, Quality-of-Life Issues, by Douglas J. Elliott, Fellow, Economic Studies, Initiative on Business and Public Policy, The Brookings Institution, April 15, 2010. “The recent financial crisis dramatically changed the situation of public pension plans and the alternatives available to them going forward. Most obviously,… Continue Reading
CDC: April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month
CDC’s Healthy Children resource homepage: “Approximately 772,000 children are confirmed by Child Protective Services each year as being abused or neglected. These confirmed cases, however, represent only a fraction of the true magnitude of the problem. Child maltreatment is a significant public health problem in the United States. In 2007, approximately 772,000 children were confirmed… Continue Reading
Bureau of Justice Assistance: Addressing Foreclosed and Abandoned Properties
Addressing Foreclosed and Abandoned Properties, by Roxann Pais and Robert V. Wolf “This Bureau of Justice Assistance sponsored fact sheet offers an array of ideas to address vacant and abandoned properties. The strategies in this guide–which have been culled from real-life approaches across the U.S.–are intended to assist law enforcement and government agencies seeking to… Continue Reading
Pew Internet Study: Teens and Mobile Phones
Teens and Mobile Phones – Text messaging explodes as teens embrace it as the centerpiece of their communication strategies with friends, April 20, 2010 “Daily text messaging among American teens has shot up in the past 18 months, from 38% of teens texting friends daily in February of 2008 to 54% of teens texting daily… Continue Reading
Report: Retired Military Leaders Want Junk Food Out of Americas Schools
Follow up to previous postings on childhood and adolescent obesity, this new report: Too Fat to Fight – Retired Military Leaders Want Junk Food Out of Americas Schools. A report by Mission: Readiness, Military Leaders for Kids, April 2010. “Mission: Readiness, an organization of retired senior military leaders, is warning Congress that at least nine… Continue Reading
Google Launches Government Requests Tool
Official Google Blog: “…it’s no surprise that Google, like other technology and telecommunications companies, regularly receives demands from government agencies to remove content from our services. Of course many of these requests are entirely legitimate, such as requests for the removal of child pornography. We also regularly receive requests from law enforcement agencies to hand… Continue Reading
Special Inspector General for Troubled Asset Relief Program Quarterly Report to Congress
Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, April 20, 2010 – Quarterly Report to Congress Related postings on financial system Continue Reading
CRS: U.S. Initiatives to Promote Global Internet Freedom: Issues, Policy, and Technology
U.S. Initiatives to Promote Global Internet Freedom: Issues, Policy, and Technology. April 5, 2010 Modern means of communications, led by the Internet, provide a relatively inexpensive, open, easy-entry means of sharing ideas, information, pictures, and text around the world. In a political and human rights context, in closed societies when the more established, formal news… Continue Reading
