Using Biofuel Tax Credits to Achieve Energy and Environmental Policy Goals, July 2010 “Roughly 11 billion gallons of biofuels were produced and sold in the United States in 2009, and ethanol produced from corn accounted for nearly all (about 10.8 billion gallons) of that total. Blenders of transportation fuels receive a tax credit of 45… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2010
CEA Releases Fourth Quarterly Report on the Economic Impact of the Recovery Act
Executive Office of the President, Council of Economic Advisers – The Economic Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Fourth Quarterly Report, July 14, 2010 “As part of the unprecedented accountability and transparency provisions included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Afghanistan Development, Commercial Aviation, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Passport Issuance
Afghanistan Development: Enhancements to Performance Management and Evaluation Efforts Could Improve USAID’s Agricultural Programs, GAO-10-368, July 14, 2010 Commercial Aviation: Better Information about Airline-Imposed Fees and the Refundability of Government-Imposed Taxes and Fees Could Benefit Consumers, GAO-10-885T, July 14, 2010 Commercial Aviation: Consumers Could Benefit from Better Information about Airline-Imposed Fees and Refundability of Government-Imposed… Continue Reading
Census Releases 2008 Annual Surveys of State and Local Government Finances
State and Local Government Spending Increases by 6.5 Percent in 2008, Census Bureau Reports: “State and local government spending increased by 6.5 percent in 2008, totaling more than $2.8 trillion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Education topped government spending ($826.1 billion), followed by public welfare ($404.6 billion), insurance trust expenditures ($234.6 billion), utilities ($193.4… Continue Reading
ALM Law Librarian Survey 2010
Law Librarian Survey 2010: More Bang, Less Bucks, Alan Cohen, The American Lawyer, July 15, 2010 “Faced with major challenges, including less staff, tighter budgets, and price-increase-happy publishers who, as one library chief puts it, “must live on another planet,” law firm librarians have developed new strategies to cope. The 80 librarians who participated in… Continue Reading
Federal Agencies Release Annual Report to Congress on Scholarship Fraud
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Education have issued their annual report to Congress pursuant to the College Scholarship Fraud Prevention Act, describing their continued efforts to combat scholarship and financial aid fraud. Each year, millions of students seek help in financing their college education, and some… Continue Reading
Rand: Measuring the Effectiveness of Border Security Between Ports-of-Entry
Measuring the Effectiveness of Border Security Between Ports-of-Entry, by Henry H. Willis, Joel B. Predd, Paul K. Davis, Wayne P. Brown “This report offers research and recommendations on ways to measure the overall efforts of the national border-security enterprise between ports of entry. Focusing on three missions illegal drug control, Counterterrorism, and illegal migration… Continue Reading
Oceanographer Says Oil Spill Has Diminished Gulf Oxygen Levels
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via WJS: “A university researcher questioned the significance of government data that suggest oxygen levels in the Gulf of Mexico haven’t dropped enough to be of serious concern. Samantha Joye, an oceanographer at the University of Georgia who is studying the oil spill’s potential effects… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports – Shadow Banking
Shadow Banking, July 2010, Number 458. Authors: Zoltan Pozsar, Tobias Adrian, Adam Ashcraft, and Hayley Boesky “The rapid growth of the market-based financial system since the mid-1980s changed the nature of financial intermediation in the United States profoundly. Within the market-based financial system, “shadow banks” are particularly important institutions. Shadow banks are financial intermediaries that… Continue Reading
House Majority Leader Majority Leader Hoyer Unveils House Floor Feed
News release: “House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) unveiled today a newly expanded service from the Majority Leaders Office that provides the latest internal information about what is happening on the House Floor: Beginning today, all House Democratic staff will have access to regular updates on whats happening on the House Floor through the… Continue Reading
Conference Board: U.S. Salary Increase Budgets for 2011
U.S. Salary Increase Budgets for 2011, Christopher Woock and Judit Torok, July 2010. R-1466-10-RR “With a median increase of 2.5 percent in 2010, salary increase budgets remain historically low but projections for 2011 show a modest increase to 3.0 percentan indication that the economic recovery has not yet picked up enough strength to significantly raise… Continue Reading
White House Announces National HIV/AIDS Strategy
Jeffrey Crowley, Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy: “Today, I am pleased to announce the release of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States. The release of the strategy reaffirms President Obamas commitment to fighting this domestic epidemic. From the time that we first heard about the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) thirty… Continue Reading
