Homeland Security – Challenges for the Food and Agriculture Sector in Responding to Potential Terrorist Attacks and Natural Disasters, GAO-11-946T, September 13, 2011 Visa Security – Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen Overstay Enforcement and Address Risks in the Visa Process, GAO-11-910T, September 13, 2011 Child Care – Overview of Relevant Employment Laws and Cases of… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010
News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that in 2010, median household income declined, the poverty rate increased and the percentage without health insurance coverage was not statistically different from the previous year. Real median household income in the United States in 2010 was $49,445, a 2.3 percent decline from the 2009 median. The… Continue Reading
CBO – Confronting the Nation's Fiscal Policy Challenges September 13, 2011
Confronting the Nation’s Fiscal Policy Challenges, September 13, 2011. Testimony before the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, U.S. Congress “The federal government is confronting significant and fundamental budgetary challenges. If current policies are continued in coming years, the aging of the population and the rising cost of health care will boost federal spending, as… Continue Reading
EU – Call for better support for female entrepreneurs and over-50s returning to work
News release: ‘Women’s rights/Equal opportunities; Plenary sessions, September 13, 2011: “Women setting up and running small and medium-sized enterprises need better financial and educational support, says a resolution adopted on Tuesday. Parliament also calls on Member States to help women over 50 to stay in or return to the labour market. Only one in ten… Continue Reading
EU: Education trends report highlights need for effective funding for schools and universities
Brussels, 13 September 2011 – “The European Commission today welcomed the launch of Education at a Glance 2011, a new report which gathers statistical data on investment in education, student-teacher ratios, teaching hours, graduate numbers and results. 21 EU countries are covered by the report, which is compiled annually by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation… Continue Reading
CDT: Under Proposed Rule, Patients Will Receive Clinical Test Results Directly
News release: “Ever have a medical test done and then had to wait around sometimes anxiously, depending on the test to get the lab test results from your doctor? Thats about to change. Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed regulations that would give patients the ability to access their… Continue Reading
The unreliability of credit-to-GDP ratio gaps in real-time: Implications for countercyclical capital bu ffers
The unreliability of credit-to-GDP ratio gaps in real-time: Implications for countercyclical capital bu ffers – Rochelle M. Edge, Office of Financial Stability Policy and Research, Federal Reserve Board. Ralf R. Meisenzahl – Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, August 21, 2011 “Macroeconomists have long recognized that activity-gap measures are unreliable in real time and… Continue Reading
IDC Government Insights Survey Reveals the Need for Government Agencies to Maintain Multiple Information and Service Channels
New release: “IDC Government Insights announced the availability of a new report, Creating More Effective Government Information and Service Channels Citizen Survey and Analysis (Document # GI229971), based on new survey data revealing that U.S. citizens expect governments to provide multiple channels for the delivery of government services information, including in person, by mail,… Continue Reading
Tobacco Companies and FDA – Lawsuits in Response to New Cigarette Labeling
Blog of the Legal Times: “Responding to a lawsuit filed by five of the nation’s largest cigarette manufacturers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration filed Friday to block any delay to new regulations requiring graphic warning labels on cigarette packages. The tobacco companies are suing the agency in U.S. District Court for the District of… Continue Reading
Estimated Impact of Automatic Budget Enforcement Procedures Specified in the Budget Control Act September 12, 2011
Estimated Impact of Automatic Budget Enforcement Procedures Specified in the Budget Control Act, September 12, 2011 “The Budget Control Act of 2011 (enacted on August 2 as Public Law 112-25) made several changes to federal programs and established budget enforcement mechanismsincluding caps on future discretionary appropriationsthat were estimated to reduce federal budget deficits by a… Continue Reading
American Jobs Act of 2011
President Obama’s message to Congress, and the text of American Jobs Act of 2011 The American people understand that the economic crisis and the deep recession were not created overnight and will not be solved overnight. The economic security of the middle class has been under attack for decades. That is why I believe we… Continue Reading
European Southern Observatory: Fifty New Exoplanets Discovered by HARPS
Richest haul of planets so far includes 16 new super-Earths: “Astronomers using ESOs world-leading exoplanet hunter HARPS have today announced a rich haul of more than 50 new exoplanets, including 16 super-Earths, one of which orbits at the edge of the habitable zone of its star. By studying the properties of all the HARPS planets… Continue Reading
