The Freedom of Information Act on its 45th anniversary | Commentary – July 01, 2011: “Lyndon Johnson opposed FOIA said it was a plot against his administration but a tenacious backbencher from California, John Moss, had pursued it for 12 years and LBJ finally relented, signing the legislation on July 4th, 1966. Here Michael Lemov, author of a new book on Moss and FOIA, recounts events leading to the enactment.”
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New GAO Reports – Retirement Income, Antibiotic Resistance
Retirement Income Ensuring Income throughout Retirement Requires Difficult Choices, GAO-11-400, June 7, 2011 Antibiotic Resistance Data Gaps Will Remain Despite HHS Taking Steps to Improve Monitoring, GAO-11-406, June 1, 2011 Continue Reading
BIS – Operational Risk – Supervisory Guidelines for the Advanced Measurement Approaches – final document
“The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued two papers on operational risk: Principles for the Sound Management of Operational Risk and Operational Risk – Supervisory Guidelines for the Advanced Measurement Approaches. The regulatory capital adequacy framework envisages that, over time, the operational risk discipline will continue to mature and converge towards a narrower band of… Continue Reading
Life expectancy in most US counties falls behind worlds healthiest nations
While people in Japan, Canada, and other nations are enjoying significant gains in life expectancy every year, most counties within the United States are falling behind, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) researchers, in… Continue Reading
BIS: Pillar 3 disclosure requirements for remuneration
Pillar 3 disclosure requirements for remuneration – final document – July 2011 – Bank for International Settlements (BIS) “The objective of these additional Pillar 3 requirements on remuneration is to support an effective market discipline and to allow market participants to assess the quality of a bank’s compensation practices. These requirements should also contribute to… Continue Reading
Census Bureau – U.S. Employer Firms Show Declines in Number of Establishments and Employees
News release: “In 2009, businesses with paid employees numbered 7.4 million, a decline of 168,000 establishments from 2008, marking the second consecutive year of decline, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Further, between 2008 and 2009, employment dropped 5.3 percent, a decrease of more than 6 million employees, for a total of 114,509,626. In 2008,… Continue Reading
Census Bureau Releases Data on Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Nebraska and North Carolina
News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau today released new, detailed demographic information from the 2010 Census for Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Nebraska and North Carolina. These Summary File 1 tables provide the most detailed counts available so far from the 2010 Census, including cross-tabulations of age, sex, households, families, relationship to householder, housing units, detailed race… Continue Reading
County Health Rankings – Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health
“The County Health Rankings show us that where we live matters to our health. The health of a community depends on many different factors – ranging from health behaviors, education and jobs, to quality of health care, to the environment.” “Fourteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven. That’s the number of years of potential life lost… Continue Reading
Consumer Expenditure Survey Tracks Consumer Spending
“Since 1979, the Census Bureau’s Consumer Expenditure Survey has supplied the nation with household data used to help compute the Consumer Price Index, a key measure of the economy released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In July 2011, the next round of interviews takes place for this quarterly survey. The survey collects information… Continue Reading
Finances of Selected State and Local Government Employee Retirement Systems
“This quarterly survey provides national summary statistics on the revenues, expenditures and composition of assets of the 100 largest state and local public employee retirement systems in the United States. These 100 systems comprise 89.4 percent of financial activity among such entities, based on the 2007 Census of Governments. This survey presents the most current… Continue Reading
UNESCO expands World Heritage List by adding more sites of universal value
News release: “The United Nations has added cultural sites in Ukraine, Mongolia, France and Nicaragua to the World Heritage List, closing out this years selection with a total of 25 sites, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reported today. UNESCO named the newly protected sites as the residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans… Continue Reading
