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Uninsured Veterans and Family Members: Who Are They and Where Do They Live?

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Uninsured Veterans and Family Members: Who Are They and Where Do They Live? Timely Analysis of Immediate Health Policy Issues, May 2012. Jennifer Haley and Genevieve M. Kenney

  • “According to the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS), one in 10 of the nation’s 12.5 million nonelderly veterans reports neither having health insurance coverage nor using Veterans Affairs (VA) health care. While veterans are less likely than the rest of the nonelderly population to be uninsured, there are an estimated 1.3 million uninsured veterans nationwide. Another 0.9 million veterans use VA care, but have no other health insurance coverage. An additional 0.9 million adults and children in veterans’ families are uninsured. Both uninsured veterans and their family members report significantly less access to needed health care than their counterparts with insurance coverage. Compared with insured veterans, uninsured veterans have served more recently, are younger, have lower levels of education, are less likely to be married, and are less connected to the labor force—all of which could contribute to lower access to employer-sponsored coverage.”

    • Governmental Access to Data in the Cloud – A comparative analysis of ten international jurisdictions

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    A Global Reality: Governmental Access to Data in the Cloud – A comparative analysis of ten international jurisdictions Governmental access to data stored in the Cloud – including cross-border access – exists in every jurisdiction, by Winston Maxwell, Paris, France Christopher Wolf, Washington, DC; May 23, 2012. A Hogan Lovells White Paper. “This White Paper… Continue Reading

    Open Forum Academy Report – The Cloud Computing Workshop

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    OFA Report – The Cloud Computing Workshop – “The cloud will happen; the question is whether it will happen to us, with us, or by us”: “This report is prepared by the rapporteur, Dr. E. Altsitsiadis, for Open Forum Academy (OFA) in support of the Cloud Computing Workshop. The summaries of the speaker presentations and… Continue Reading

    IRS Statistics of Income (SOI) Bulletin

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    “The Statistics of Income (SOI) Bulletin [Vo. 31 No.4] is issued quarterly by the Statistics of Income Division of the Internal Revenue Service. The report provides the earliest published annual financial statistics obtained from the various types of tax and information returns filed, as well as information from periodic or special analytical studies of particular… Continue Reading

    FHFA IG – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Where the Taxpayers’ Money Went

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    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Where the Taxpayers’ Money Went, White Paper 2012-02, Evaluation Report 2012-XX. May 24, 2012 “Freddie Mac owned or guaranteed mortgages worth more than $5 trillion, nearly half of the U.S. mortgage market. They did not have adequate capital reserves to continue operating in the face of the growing losses on… Continue Reading

    Report to Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies

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    Report to Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies, U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of International Affairs. May 25, 2012 “Global economic growth weakened in the second half of 2011. Strains from Europe’s sovereign debt crisis and stresses in some European banking sectors weighed on confidence and economic activity. In addition, the rise… Continue Reading

    Total cost of ownership of open source software: a report for the UK Cabinet Office

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    “The Cabinet Office and London School of Economics (LSE) have published research into the Total Cost of Ownership of Open Source Software, by Maha Shaikh and Tony Cornford, Version 8.5 Final, November 2011, Unclassified. The report has beejointly financed by the Cabinet Office and OpenForum Academy, together with some of its supporters, including Alfresco, Deloitte,… Continue Reading

    FTC Testifies on Efforts to Protect Consumer Privacy

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    News release: “The Federal Trade Commission testified before Congress about the agency’s efforts to protect consumer privacy, including the FTC’s support for implementation of a “Do Not Track” mechanism that would allow consumers to control the tracking of their online activities across websites, and other approaches recommended in its recent privacy report. In delivering Commission… Continue Reading