President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: Efforts to Align Programs with Partner Countries’ HIV/AIDS Strategies and Promote Partner Country Ownership, GAO-10-836, September 20, 2010 Recovery Act: Opportunities to Improve Management and Strengthen Accountability over States’ and Localities’ Uses of Funds, GAO-10-999, September 20, 2010 Recovery Act: Survey of State Housing Finance Agencies’ Use of the… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Global Governance 2025
Global Governance 2025, September 2010: “This report analyzes the gap between current international governance institutions, organizations and norms and the demands for global governance likely to be posed by long-term strategic challenges over the next 15 years. The report is the product of research and analysis by the National Intelligence Council and European Unions Institute… Continue Reading
Since the Start of the Great Recession, More Children Raised by Grandparents
Since the Start of the Great Recession, More Children Raised by Grandparents, by Gretchen Livingston and Kim Parker, Pew Research Center “About four-in-ten (41%) of those children who live with a grandparent (or grandparents) are also being raised primarily by that grandparent, according to the census data. This figure — 2.9 million children2 — rose… Continue Reading
EIA Monthly Flash Estimate
Monthly Flash Estimate Sep 20, 2010: “The September issue of the Monthly Flash Estimate (MFE) of Electric Power Data is available on EIA’s Electricity page. This issue provides early highlights of July 2010 electricity data. In July 2010, total electric power generation in the United States increased 9.2 percent compared to July 2009. Over… Continue Reading
New words, senses, and phrases have been added to the New Oxford American Dictionary
Oxford University Press Blog: New words, new phrases, old words – new senses – with some of which you will be familiar in light of the ongoing financial crisis, riding public transport, using social media, and having kids. Continue Reading
Roosevelt Institute: The Stagnating Labor Market
The Stagnating Labor Market, Arjun Jayadev, Mike Konczal | The Roosevelt Institute, September 19, 2010 “But ever since the financial crisis of 2008 and the following recession the labor market has broken down. Though tempered by the fiscal and monetary stimulus programs of the government, the waves of unemployment and exits from the labor force… Continue Reading
Taxing Caloric Sweetened Beverages To Curb Obesity
Taxing Caloric Sweetened Beverages To Curb Obesity, Travis A. Smith, Biing-Hwan Lin, Rosanna Mentzer Morrison, September 2010 “Obesity among the U.S. population has increased markedly over the past three decades. Two-thirds of U.S. adults are now either overweight or obese, and growing numbers of children are overweight as well. Studies by nutritionists and epidemiologists suggest… Continue Reading
Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security: Privacy and the Smart Grid
Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security: Vol. 2, Privacy and the Smart Grid. The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Cyber Security Working Group, August 2010 “The Smart Grid brings with it many new data collection, communication, and information sharing capabilities related to energy usage, and these technologies in turn introduce concerns about privacy. Privacy relates… Continue Reading
Anniversary Marks Creation of U.S. Federal Court System
News release: “September 24 marks the anniversary of a groundbreaking American invention a federal court system separate from the individual state courts. The Judiciary Act of 1789 was one of the first pieces of legislation enacted by the newly formed U.S. Congress. The law created a dual court system federal and state … Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: Open Source Tools for the Day-to-Day
Via LLRX.com – Open Source Tools for the Day-to-Day: Nicole C. Engard reviews several open source tools she recommends not only for their usability and reliability, but also for the cost to value ratio when compared to mainstream applications outside our ever narrowing budget requirements. Continue Reading
Report – Small Business Lending Declines, Hiring Flat
News release: “As the Senate prepares to consider small business jobs legislation this week, a new report by the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) shows that lending to small businesses has declined in 2010, small business hiring remains flat and the smallest firms continue to reduce hiring…The report, entitled Small Business Employment: Bank Lending… Continue Reading
USDA: Rural America at a Glance, 2010 Edition
Rural America at a Glance, 2010 Edition, Lorin Kusmin and Thomas Hertz, editors. Economic Information Bulletin No. (EIB-68) 6 pp, September 2010 “Rural America At A Glance, 2010 Edition highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The 2010… Continue Reading
