List of Expiring Federal Tax Provisions, 2011-2022. Joint Committee on Taxation. “For purposes of compiling this list, the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation considers a provision to be expiring if, at a statutorily specified date, the provision expires completely or reverts to the law in effect before the present-law version of the provision.… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Consortium Launches enviacentroamerica.org To Make Costs and Conditions of Remittances More Transparent
News release: “The Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA), the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the World Bank today launched enviacentroamerica.org, a free online tool to compare and make transparent the costs of remittances from the United States to six Central American countries and the Dominican Republic.… Continue Reading
Perkins+Will Transparency Site – Data on Precautionary Built Environment Materials
News release: “…leading design firm Perkins+Will launched the built environments first free, universally accessible database aimed at creating greater transparency into building materials containing substances that are publically known or suspected to be associated with an adverse finding in relation to human and environmental health. The database is the result of over two years of… Continue Reading
Article: First Amendment Architecture
First Amendment Architecture, Marvin Ammori, Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2012, No. 1, 2012. “The right to free speech is meaningless without some place to exercise it. But constitutional scholarship generally overlooks the role of judicial doctrines in ensuring the availability of spaces for speech. Indeed, when scholarship addresses doctrines that are explicitly concerned with speech… Continue Reading
FBI Report on DNSChanger Malware
Report: “DNS (Domain Name System) is an Internet service that converts user-friendly domain names into the numerical Internet protocol (IP) addresses that computers use to talk to each other. When you enter a domain name, such as www.fbi.gov, in your web browser address bar, your computer contacts DNS servers to determine the IP address for… Continue Reading
The Marriage Gap: The Impact of Economic and Technological Change on Marriage Rates
Brookings: The Marriage Gap: The Impact of Economic and Technological Change on Marriage Rates, Michael Greenstone, Director, The Hamilton Project, and Senior Fellow, Economic Studies; Adam Looney, Policy Director, The Hamilton Project, and Senior Fellow, Economic Studies “Today’s employment report provided hopeful signals that momentum is continuing to develop in the labor market. The unemployment… Continue Reading
Monthly Labor Review: Employment outlook – 20102020
“Slow labor force growth and a gross domestic product growth of 3.0 percent annually are projected to result in a gain of 20.5 million jobs between 2010 and 2020; the fastest job growth is projected for industries and occupations related to healthcare and construction, although the construction industry is not expected to regain all the… Continue Reading
WSJ Infographic on Historical U.S. Unemployment
Historical U.S. Unemployment: “Whenever the unemployment rate drops, economically savvy observers know to ask a key question: What happened to the employment-population ratio? Under the governments definitions, people only count as unemployed when theyre actively looking for work. So when the unemployment rate drops, it could mean that unemployed people found jobs, or it could… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Arlington National Cemetery, DHS, Medicare, Military Child Care
Arlington National Cemetery Actions Needed to Ensure Lasting, Positive Changes in Contracting and Management, GAO-12-436T, Feb 3, 2012 Department of Homeland Security – Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen Strategic Planning and Management Functions, Continue Reading
Medicaid Benefits Online Database Updated To Include 2010 Data For All 50 States
“The Kasier Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured has updated its Medicaid Benefits Online Database to include 2010 state-level data about which benefits are covered by Medicaid programs in the 50 states, the District of Columbia and United States territories. The online tool contains Medicaid benefits data for adults covered under fee-for-service, with information… Continue Reading
BLS – Employment Situation Summary, January 2012
News release: “Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 243,000 in January, and the unemployment rate decreased to 8.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job growth was widespread in the private sector, with large employment gains in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and manufacturing. Government employment changed little over the… Continue Reading
Facebook, Inc. Files for IPO with SEC
via SEC: Facebook, Inc. Form S-1, February 1, 2012 “We had 845 million MAUs as of December 31, 2011, an increase of 39% as compared to 608 million MAUs as of December 31, 2010. We had 483 million daily active users (DAUs) on average in December 2011, an increase of 48% as compared to 327… Continue Reading
