News release: “In January 2009, the FDIC sponsored a special supplement to the U.S. Census Bureaus Current Population Survey (CPS) to collect data on the number of U.S. households that are unbanked and underbanked, their demographic characteristics, and their reasons for being unbanked and underbanked. Teamed with the rich demographic and geographic data available through… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Confidence in Regional Washington D.C. Economy Soars
Spring Economic Outlook Survey of Business Executives: “Confidence in the Greater Washington, DC economy reached its highest point since February 2009, according to the semi-annual economic survey released today by the Greater Washington Board of Trade. Business leaders have overall positive perceptions of current economic conditions that confirmed the outlook six months prior. They also… Continue Reading
US Attorney, FBI and NYC Police Statement on Times Square Investigation
Statement of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, The Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the New York City Police Department on an Arrest in the Times Square Investigation , May 4, 2010. Photos from the Press Conference on the Times Square Attempted Bombing Politico: Cellphone led FBI to Times Square… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Warfighter Support, Retirement Income
Warfighter Support: Improvements to DOD’s Urgent Needs Processes Would Enhance Oversight and Expedite Efforts to Meet Critical Warfighter Needs, GAO-10-460, April 30, 2010 Retirement Income: Challenges for Ensuring Income throughout Retirement, GAO-10-632R, April 28, 2010: “For the first time since 1983, the Social Security trust funds are currently paying out more in benefits than they… Continue Reading
EPA Announces Plans to Regulate Coal Ash
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency =is proposing the first-ever national rules to ensure the safe disposal and management of coal ash from coal-fired power plants. Coal combustion residuals, commonly known as coal ash, are byproducts of the combustion of coal at power plants and are disposed of in liquid form at large surface… Continue Reading
April 2010 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices
“The April 2010 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices addressed changes in the supply of, and demand for, bank loans to businesses and households over the past three months. The survey included three sets of special questions. The first set asked banks about lending policies regarding business credit card accounts for use… Continue Reading
U.S. Announces Size of Nuclear Arsenal at Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Meeting
WSJ: “The Pentagon said the U.S. had a total of 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile as of Sept. 30, plus a few thousand more that had been retired but still needed to be dismantled. Between fiscal years 1994 and 2009, the U.S. dismantled 8,748 nuclear warheads. At its peak at the end of fiscal… Continue Reading
Road Work Ahead: Holding Government Accountable for Fixing America's Crumbling Roads and Bridges
News release: “Over the last 50 years, America has built roads and bridges at a pace and scale that dwarfs most of the rest of the world. Weve built a national highway network like no other, with more than 45,000 miles of interstate highway and 575,000 highway bridges. Now, much of that system is showing… Continue Reading
Citizen Satisfaction with E-Government Remains Strong
News release: “Citizen satisfaction with government websites remains high into the second year of President Obamas administration. After a slow start and small decline following the inauguration in early 2009, satisfaction with e-government climbed to an all-time high last year and remains high this quarter. The ACSI E-Government Satisfaction Index registers a 75.1 on a… Continue Reading
IncidentNews website provides publicly available information related to oil and hazardous material spills
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, additional timely resources from NOAA: NOAA IncidentNews – “Under the National Contingency Plan, NOAA has responsibility for providing scientific support to the Federal On-Scene Commander (FOSC) for oil and hazardous material spills, and it is primarily ERD that provides that support. NOAA may also be… Continue Reading
Collaborative, Open Source, Citizen Based Site for Canadian Government Data
“Unlike the United States (data.gov) and Britain (data.gov.uk), Canada has no open data strategy. This must change. Canadians paid for the information gathered about our country, ourselves and our government. Free access to it could help stimulate our economy and enhance our democracy. In pursuit of this goal, this website is a citizen-led effort to… Continue Reading
Audit of Open Government Plans Reveals Wide Range of Performance
News release, PEER: “A ranking of agencies Open Government Plans compiled in an independent audit reveals the strongest and weakest agency plans, with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at the top of the list and the Department of Justice (DOJ) at the bottom. Significantly, the audit found that key agencies assigned to oversee… Continue Reading
