“YouTube is proud to be a place where citizens and activists come to tell their stories — stories that may otherwise go unnoticed. A study released this week by the Pew Research Centers Project for Excellence in Journalism found that YouTube is a top destination for news and that citizens play a substantial role in… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Long-Term Implications of the 2013 Future Years Defense Program
Long-Term Implications of the 2013 Future Years Defense Program “In most years, the Department of Defense (DoD) provides to the Congress a five-year plan, called the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP), along with its budget request for the coming year. Because decisions made in the near term can have consequences for the defense budget well… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Air Force Training, K-12 Education
Air Force Training – Actions Needed to Better Manage and Determine Costs of Virtual Training Efforts, GAO-12-727, July 19, 2012 K-12 Education – Selected States and School Districts Cited Numerous Federal Requirements As Burdensome, While Recognizing Some Benefits, GAO-12-672, June 27, 2012 Continue Reading
CFPB – Private Student Loans Report
“The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requires the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Secretary of Education to submit a Report on private student loans. This Report addresses the following topics, as set forth in the Act: The private lenders, their market and their products, as they have evolved… Continue Reading
Global Food Security Index
Via EIU – the Global Food Security Index “considers the core issues of affordability, availability, and quality across a set of 105 countries. The index is a dynamic quantitative and qualitative scoring model, constructed from 25 unique indicators, that measures these drivers of food security across both developing and developed countries. View the methodology and… Continue Reading
TRAC – Immigration Backlog and Wait Times Reach New Highs
“The number of cases awaiting resolution before the Immigration Courts keeps rising, along with the average time these pending cases have been waiting. At the end of June 2012 the backlog reached a new all-time high of 314,147. According to the very latest data obtained and analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), that… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Data Center Consolidation, Foreign Assistance, FDIC, SSA Disability Programs, Municipal Securities, TARP, Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Data Center Consolidation – Agencies Making Progress on Efforts, but Inventories and Plans Need to Be Completed, GAO-12-742, July 19, 2012 Foreign Assistance – Actions Needed to Help Ensure Quality and Sustainability of USAID Road in Indonesia, GAO-12-728, July 19, 2012 Management Report – Opportunities for Improvements in FDIC’s Shared Loss Estimation Process, GAO-12-752R, July… Continue Reading
Financial Services Roundtable – State of the Financial Services Industry
State of the Financial Services Industry – July 17, 2012. Focus on fortress balance sheets; too big to fail; the cumulative weight of new rules; and economic benefits of big banks “The two-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act is marked by a safer and stronger financial services industry. Capital is at a record high, lending… Continue Reading
Davis Polk: Two Years of Dodd-Frank Infographic
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United Nations Launches New Program – Together we will end AIDS
News release: “A new report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) shows that domestic funding for HIV has exceeded international investments. The report, Together we will end AIDS, states that low- and middle- income countries invested US$ 8.6 billion for the response in 2011, an increase of 11% over 2010. International funding… Continue Reading
NOAA – Extended Drought Conditions in the United States
“By early July 2012, more than 60% of the contiguous United States was experiencing drought conditions, nearly double the area from early January. This animation shows monthly composites of D1 to D4 categories of drought in the contiguous U.S. over the time frame January 2012 to July 2012 using data from the U.S. Drought Monitor.… Continue Reading
Presentation – Overview of Near Term Policy Agenda Focus on Regulatory Reform
Overview of Near Term Policy Agenda – Focus on Regulatory Reform. “This presentation was delivered to a group of academics who have organized a research group with the goal of “Modeling Financial Sector Linkages to the Macro-Economy”. The research group is organized by the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at the University of… Continue Reading
