News release: “Marking the 46th anniversary of President Johnson’s signing the Freedom of Information Act, the National Security Archive [July 4, 2012] posted a compilation of 46 news headlines from the past year made possible by active and creative use of the FOIA. This representative sample, drawn from hundreds of FOIA stories reported by newspapers,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
CEPR – Job Growth Remains Weak in June, Unemployment Steady at 8.2 Percent
Dean Baker, The Center for Economic and Policy Research : “The economy added just 80,000 jobs in June, bringing the average over the last four months to 92,000. This compares to a monthly rate of 252,000 for the four months from November to February. Part of the weakness in the June job growth is likely… Continue Reading
BLS Employment Situation Summary June 2012
News release: “Nonfarm payroll employment continued to edge up in June (+80,000), and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Professional and business services added jobs, and employment in other major industries changed little over the month. Household Survey Data: The number of unemployed persons (12.7… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Appraised Values on Tax Returns, Foreclosure Review
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy – Additional Actions Needed to Establish Effective Internal Control, GAO-12-369, July 6, 2012 Appraised Values on Tax Returns – Burdens on Taxpayers Could Be Reduced and Selected Practices Improved, GAO-12-608, June 5, 2012 Foreclosure Review – Opportunities Exist to Further Enhance Borrower Outreach Efforts, GAO-12-776, June 29, 2012 Continue Reading
Pew – The Future of Corporate Responsibility
The Future of Corporate Responsibility – by Janna Anderson, Lee Rainie. July 5, 2012: “Experts are divided about the role Western technology companies will play in helping monitor and thwart dissident activity in the future. Some hope the open Internet and the prospect of consumer backlash will minimize businesses cooperation with authoritarian governments; others believe… Continue Reading
N.J. Supreme Court – Records related to cases at public law school clinics are not subject to Open Public Records Act
Chronicle of Higher Education, Peter Schmidt: “The New Jersey State Supreme Court has held that the state’s open-records law does not require a Rutgers University legal clinic to relinquish client files, handing a major victory to higher-education associations, which warned that an inability to maintain attorney-client privilege would badly damage the nation’s public law schools.… Continue Reading
Issa Releases Report – Countrywide VIP Program focussing on use of discounted loans to advance business, lobbying goals
News release: “House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa today released a new report following the Committees three year investigation into Countrywide Financials Friends of Angelo and VIP Program that issued discounted mortgages to influential Washington policy figures. The report finds that Countrywide used its VIP Program to aid its lobbying efforts as… Continue Reading
Conference Board – CEO Confidence Declines
News release: “The Conference Board Measure of CEO Confidence, which had improved in the first quarter of this year, decreased in the second quarter. The Measure now reads 47, down from 63 last quarter (a reading of more than 50 points reflects more positive than negative responses). Says Lynn Franco, Director of Economic Indicators at… Continue Reading
Monitoring indicators for intraday liquidity management – consultative document
“Intraday liquidity can be defined as funds that are accessible during the business day, usually to enable financial institutions to make payments in real time. The Basel Committee’s proposed Monitoring indicators for intraday liquidity management [July 2, 2012] are intended to allow banking supervisors to monitor a bank’s intraday liquidity risk management. Over time, the… Continue Reading
SOI-Tax Stats-Top 400 Individual Income Tax Returns with the Largest Adjusted Gross Incomes
SOI-Tax Stats-Top 400 Individual Income Tax Returns with the Largest Adjusted Gross Incomes “This release contains four tables which contain information from the Top 400 Individual Income Tax Returns for each of Tax Years 1992 through 2009. Table 1 contains frequencies, money amounts, and average dollar amounts for the major income, deduction, and tax credits… Continue Reading
Paper – Information Lost and Found new models for library reference service
Information Lost and Found new models for library reference service, Rauha Maarno, Editor-in-Chief for the HelMet Web Library, Helsink, Finland “The paper discusses the transformation of library reference service in the context of public libraries: from information repository to knowledge platform. The subject is approached with everyday experiences from the Helsinki City Librarys web… Continue Reading
Exchange of letters between Chancellor and Governor of the Bank of England
via Monetary policy in the UK: “The Asset Purchase Facility (APF) was announced on 19 January 2009 with the objective of increasing the availability of corporate credit, in order to support the Bank of Englands responsibilities for financial stability and monetary stability in the UK. At the request of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), the… Continue Reading
