Alien Smuggling: DHS Could Better Address Alien Smuggling along the Southwest Border by Leveraging Investigative Resources and Measuring Program Performance, GAO-10-919T, July 22, 2010 Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Tests: Misleading Test Results Are Further Complicated by Deceptive Marketing and Other Questionable Practices, GAO-10-847T, July 22, 2010 Information Management: Challenges In Federal Agencies’ Use of Web 2.0 Technologies,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2010
CBO: Social Security Disability Insurance: Participation Trends and Their Fiscal Implications
Social Security Disability Insurance: Participation Trends and Their Fiscal Implications, July 22, 2010 – “The Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program pays cash benefits to nonelderly adults (those younger than age 66) who are judged to be unable to perform substantial work because of a disability but who have worked in the past; the program… Continue Reading
HUD's 2009 American Housing Survey
News release: “Most families with young children live within a mile of a public elementary school. The most common home heating fuel in the U.S. is gas. Only a third of American homes have a working carbon monoxide detector. These are just some of the findings of a comprehensive national sample of the more than… Continue Reading
EPA: New Toolkit to Help Local Governments with Green Building Practices
News release: “Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 announced the release of the Sustainable Design and Green Building Toolkit for Local Governments (Toolkit). The Toolkit was developed collaboratively by the Agencys Regional Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Division and Water Protection Division and Pollution Prevention Office, with support from the EPA Green Building and Smart… Continue Reading
CBO: An Analysis of the Army's Arsenal Support Program Initiative
An Analysis of the Army’s Arsenal Support Program Initiative, July 2010 “The Congress created the Arsenal Support Program Initiative (ASPI) in 2001 to help maintain the viability of the Armys three manufacturing arsenals. Owned and operated by the federal government, those arsenals – which are located in Rock Island, Illinois, Watervliet, New York, and Pine… Continue Reading
My Digital Library: Leveraging Todays Mobile and Participatory Information Ecosystem
Pew Internet Presentation: Libraries, Mobile, New Media Ecology – My Digital Library: Leveraging Todays Mobile and Participatory Information Ecosystem, by Kristen Purcell, July 29, 2010 at Digital Libraries à la Carte 2010, Tilburg University Continue Reading
Testimony by Chairman Bernanke on the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., July 21, 2010 Chairman Dodd, Senator Shelby, and members of the Committee, I am pleased to present the Federal Reserve’s semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress. Economic and Financial Developments:… Continue Reading
Issue Brief: The Urgent Need for Job Creation
Center for Economic and Policy Research – The Urgent Need for Job Creation, July 2010, John Schmitt and Tessa Conroy “Many lawmakers, policymakers, and economic commentators do not appear to recognize the depth of the current labor-market recession. Between December 2007 the official first month of the recession and December 2009, the U.S.… Continue Reading
Financial Stability of Continuing Care Retirement Communities
News release: “Senator Herb Kohl, Chairman of the Special Committee on Aging, held a hearing on continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs), which provide separate housing for seniors who are able to live independently, who require help in an assisted living facility, and who require more intensive care in a nursing home. The Committee examined issues… Continue Reading
DHS Announces Dramatic Expansion of Airport Body Scanner Program
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, via EPIC: “On July 20, 2010, the Department of Homeland Security announced a substantial change in the deployment of body scanners in US airports. According to the DHS Secretary, the devices, which had once been part of a pilot program… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: DOJ Counternarcotics Activities, Federal Student Loan Programs, Public Diplomacy Platforms, Highway Bridge Program, Maritime Security, TARP
Drug Control: DOD Needs to Improve Its Performance Measurement System to Better Manage and Oversee Its Counternarcotics Activities, GAO-10-835, July 21, 2010 Drug Control: International Programs Face Significant Challenges Reducing the Supply of Illegal Drugs but Support Broad U.S. Foreign Policy Objectives, GAO-10-921T, July 21, 2010 Engaging Foreign Audiences: Assessment of Public Diplomacy Platforms Could… Continue Reading
A Scientific Assessment of Alternatives for Reducing Water Management Effects on Threatened and Endangered Fishes in California's Bay Delta
A Scientific Assessment of Alternatives for Reducing Water Management Effects on Threatened and Endangered Fishes in California’s Bay Delta “California’s Bay-Delta estuary is a biologically diverse estuarine ecosystem that plays a central role in the distribution of California’s water from the state’s wetter northern regions to its southern, arid, and populous cities and agricultural areas.… Continue Reading
