News release: “The Department of Agriculture today released its annual report, Expenditures on Children by Families, finding that a middle-income family with a child born in 2010 can expect to spend about $226,920 ($286,860 if projected inflation costs are factored in) for food, shelter, and other necessities to raise that child over the next 17… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2011
DOJ: Lawyers working on Guantánamo Bay detainee litigation may access WikiLeaks
Follow up to postings on WikiLeaks, via the Legal Times: “Stephen Elliot of the Civil Divisions federal programs branch said in the guidance, provided Friday to lawyers in pending detainee cases in Washington federal district court, that attorneys for detainees are allowed to cite to WikiLeaks documents.” “Access to Potentially Classified Information on WikiLeaks and… Continue Reading
Report on EPA Environmental Regulation and Electric Sector Reliability
“The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) today released a BPC staff report, Environmental Regulation and Electric System Reliability, the product of an extensive effort by the BPC to examine reliability and cost issues associated with forthcoming EPA regulations…Overall, the report finds that the impacts on the reliability of the electric system due to EPA regulations are… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: DOE's Depleted Uranium Tails, VA Health Care, Abusive Tax Avoidance Transactions, Private Pensions
Legislative Restrictions on Contractor Use of Mandatory Arbitration Agreements Have Had No Reported Impacts on National Security, GAO-11-717R, June 13, 2011 Nuclear Material: DOE’s Depleted Uranium Tails Could Be a Source of Revenue for the Government, GAO-11-752T, June 13, 2011 VA Health Care: Improvements Needed for Monitoring and Preventing Sexual Assaults and Other Safety Incidents,… Continue Reading
Report – FBI Expands Surveillance Power of Agents
NYT: “The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention. The F.B.I. soon plans to issue a new edition of its manual, called… Continue Reading
Stateline Legislative Review 2011
Legislative Review 2011 by John Gramlich, Stateline Staff Writer: “Holding a lock on the governorship and both houses of the legislature in 20 states, GOP conservatives advanced an agenda that may change the face of state government for decades. They honored pledges not to raise taxes by enacting huge spending cuts to balance budgets in… Continue Reading
FCC: The Information Needs of Communities
The Information Needs of Communities – The changing media landscape in a broadband age, Steven Waldman and the Working Group on Information Needs of Communities, June 2011 “In most ways todays media landscape is more vibrant than ever, offering faster and cheaper distribution networks, fewer barriers to entry, and more ways to consume information. Choice… Continue Reading
Bank of England Working Paper: Domestic financial regulation and external borrowing
Working Paper No 429 – Domestic financial regulation and external borrowing, Sergi Lanau “This paper studies the relationship between domestic financial regulation and the incentive of non-banks to borrow from banks abroad using BIS banking data in a gravity framework. Conditional on a large set of macroeconomic controls, we find that under tighter domestic financial… Continue Reading
NY AG Sues Feds For Failure to Study Fracking
News release: [On May 31, 2011] New York “Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced he was filing a lawsuit against the federal government for its failure to commit to a full environmental review of proposed regulations that would allow natural gas drilling including the potentially harmful fracking technique in the Delaware River Basin.… Continue Reading
House Appropriations Committee Report – Full Committee Print of the Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal 2012
House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, FY 2012 Defense Bill – Report “The Presidents fiscal year 2012 budget request for activities funded in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act totals $538,940,292,000 in new budget obligational authority for the base military bill…The Committee recommendation for the fiscal year 2012 Department of Defense base budget is $530,024,959,000,… Continue Reading
SEC Guide – Implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: “This law creates a new, more effective regulatory structure, fills a host of regulatory gaps, brings greater public transparency and market accountability to the financial system and gives investors important protections and greater input into corporate governance.” SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro Continue Reading
McKinsey Global Institute Report: An economy that works: Job creation and Americas future
An economy that works: Job creation and America’s future, June 2011 “For the United States to return to full employmentfinding work for the currently unemployed and accommodating new entrants into the labor force this decadethe US economy will need to create 21 million jobs by 2020, according to MGI’s analysis. To understand how this might… Continue Reading
