Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse – “The odds of an asylum claim being denied reached an historic low in FY 2012, with only 44.5 percent being turned down. Ten years ago, almost two out of three (62.6%) individuals seeking asylum lost their cases in similar actions. Asylum applicants also made up more than a quarter (29.4%) of all cases closed under the prosecutorial discretion (PD) initiative during FY 2012. When those who won their cases are combined with PD closures as well as other administrative closures, a record high 63.7 percent of asylum applicants were allowed to remain in the U.S. in cases concluded in FY 2012. Accompanying this report are 272 separate reports covering each Immigration Judge.”
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Cornell University Announces worlds largest natural sound archive goes digital
News release: “In terms of speed and the breadth of material now accessible to anyone in the world, this is really revolutionary,” says audio curator Greg Budney, describing a major milestone just achieved by the Macaulay Library archive at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. All archived analog recordings in the collection, going back to 1929,… Continue Reading
Pew – Health Online 2013
Health Online 2013, by Susannah Fox, Maeve Duggan, Jan 15, 2013 “Thirty‐five percent of U.S. adults say that at one time or another they have gone online specifically to try to figure out what medical condition they or someone else might have…It is important to note what these findings mean and what they dont… Continue Reading
GAO Report – USPS Initiatives to Increase Revenue
U.S. Postal Service – Overview of Initiatives to Increase Revenue and Introduce Nonpostal Services and Experimental Postal Products, GAO-13-216, Jan 15, 2013 “USPS is currently pursuing 55 new initiatives that it identified based on outreach to postal stakeholders. USPS chose to pursue these initiatives because of their potential to increase revenue and add value to… Continue Reading
NY Fed Releases Reverse Repo Counterparties List
“To prepare for the potential need to conduct large-scale reverse repurchase agreement transactions, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is developing arrangements with an expanded set of counterparties with whom it can conduct these transactions. These counterparties are in addition to the existing set of Primary Dealer counterparties with whom the Federal Reserve can… Continue Reading
Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds
Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds, Robert J. Gordon. NBER Working Paper No. 18315, August 2012 “This paper raises basic questions about the process of economic growth. It questions the assumption, nearly universal since Solows seminal contributions of the 1950s, that economic growth is a continuous process that will persist… Continue Reading
Deloitte – 2013 Capital Markets Outlook
2013 Capital Markets Outlook – Its the end of the world as we know it “The recent combination of economic turmoil, regulatory reaction, and technological advances has changed the capital markets sector. Uncertainty and risk stemming from the slower-than-desired pace of economic recovery, looming end-of-year fiscal cliff, and continued economic shockwaves emanating from Europe make… Continue Reading
Medical Care Economic Risk: Measuring Financial Vulnerability from Spending on Medical Care
“The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many Americans lack health care insurance of any kind, and many others with insurance are nonetheless exposed to financial risk because of high premiums, deductibles, co-pays, limits on insurance payments,… Continue Reading
Antibiotics: Don't Use Them to Treat Colds or the Flu
USA.gov: “If you’re suffering from a cold, the flu, or another virus, there are things you can do to help relieve the symptoms, but taking antibiotics will not help. Antibiotics only treat bacterial infections, such as strep throat. Antibiotic resistance is a serious public health problem that is primarily being caused by the repeated and… Continue Reading
FBI: Early 2012 Crime Stats – Slight Uptick in Crime
“According to statistics from our Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, January-June 2012, the number of violent crimes reported by law enforcement for the first six months of 2012 increased 1.9 percent over figures from the same period in 2011. Property crimes also rose 1.5 percent overall. Violent Crime. Two of the four offenses in the… Continue Reading
CFPB – Assuring consumers have access to mortgages they can trust
“[January 10, 2013], were issuing one of our most important rules to date, the Ability-to-Repay rule. Its designed to assure the reliability of mortgages making sure that lenders offer mortgages that consumers can actually afford to pay back. This is a simple, obvious principle that needs to be cemented in the housing market. In… Continue Reading
