Life in Limbo – An Examination of Parole Release for Prisoners Serving Life Sentences with the Possibility of Parole in California, Robert Weisberg, Debbie A. Mukamal and Jordan D. Segall. September 2011. Stanford Criminal Justice Center “In recent years, Californias prison system has been under federal judicial control because of severe overcrowding, which partly results… Continue Reading
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Judicial Conference of the United States Approves Pacer Rate Increase
News release: “The Conference also authorized an increase in the Judiciary’s electronic public access fee in response to increasing costs for maintaining and enhancing the electronic public access system. The increase in the electronic public access (EPA) fee, from $.08 to $.10 per page, is needed to continue to support and improve the Public Access… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Conference on Regulation of Systemic Risk
Conference Program includes links to PDF copies of papers presented. Continue Reading
Announcing the World Wide Web Index
“The World Wide Web Foundation is very pleased to announce an exciting new initiative: the World Wide Web Index. We thank Google for a generous grant of US $1 million to the Foundation, which we are using to seed the creation of the Index…What is the Web Index? The Web Index will be the worlds… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Chesapeake Bay Restoration, Disaster Recovery
Chesapeake Bay: Restoration Effort Needs Common Federal and State Goals and Assessment Approach, GAO-11-802, September 15, 2011 Disaster Recovery: Federal Contracting in the Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, GAO-11-942T, September 15, 2011 DOD Financial Management: Improvement Needed in DOD Components’ Implementation of Audit Readiness Effort, GAO-11-851, September 13, 2011 DOD Financial Management: Marine Corps… Continue Reading
Nearly Half a Million New Yorkers Have Quit Smoking Since 2002
100,000 Fewer Smokers in New York from 2009 to 2010 Alone: “Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Linda I. Gibbs and Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas A. Farley today announced that New York Citys adult smoking rate has reached an all-time low with only 14 out… Continue Reading
OECD Employment Outlook 2011
News release: “Unemployment remains stubbornly high in the OECD area with the latest economic forecasts suggesting job creation will remain anaemic in the near term, according to a new OECD report. The OECDs latest Employment Outlook [with links to full data package] says that in mid 2011 the number of unemployed people in the OECD… Continue Reading
Industrial Organization and Systemic Risk: An Agenda for Further Research
Industrial Organization and Systemic Risk: An Agenda for Further Research, Federal Reserve Governor Daniel K. Tarullo At the Conference on the Regulation of Systemic Risk, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C., September 15, 2011 “Regulators must consider how new resolution frameworks such as that created by Dodd-Frank will affect market participants’ beliefs about what will happen… Continue Reading
CCH Tax Briefing: President Proposes $447 Billion Jobs Package
President Proposes $447 Billion Jobs Package, Updated: September 15, 2011: “President Obama has challenged Congress to immediately pass the American Jobs Act of 2011 a $447 billion jobs package, including payroll tax cuts and tax credits to encourage hiring, along with extended 100 percent bonus depreciation, which would be paid for by limiting deductions… Continue Reading
Worldwide Web Consortium Launches Tracking Protection Working Group
“The Tracking Protection Working Group is chartered to improve user privacy and user control by defining mechanisms for expressing user preferences around Web tracking and for blocking or allowing Web tracking elements. The group seeks to standardize the technology and meaning of Do Not Track, and of Tracking Selection Lists.” See in Input Documents as… Continue Reading
CDC: Lung cancer rates decline nationwide
State-Specific Trends in Lung Cancer Incidence and Smoking — United States, 1999–2008. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) September 16, 2011 / 60(36);1243-1247 “Lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in the United States (1). Most deaths from lung cancer are caused by cigarette smoking and exposure… Continue Reading
Yearbook 2010 – Living and working in Europe
Eurofound: “This second annual Yearbook on Living and working in Europe 2010 aims to convey the main findings of some of Eurofound’s key currents of research in particular, results and analysis from its three pan-European surveys on company practices, working conditions and quality of life. All the surveys now enable us to paint some… Continue Reading
