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Treasury – 50 State Quarters® Report

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50 State Quarters® Report – 10 Years of Honoring Our Nation’s History and Heritage

  • “The United States Mint 50 State Quarters® Program (Program) has been hailed as the most successful coin program in the Nation’s history. Authorized by Congress, the 50 State Quarters Program was an unprecedented ten-year initiative honoring the Nation’s states. From January 1999 to November 2008, the United States Mint annually issued five commemorative quarters with reverse designs emblematic of each state. The diverse coins minted under the 50 State Quarters Program educated millions of Americans about the history, culture and geography of each state. The Program created a new generation of Americans collecting coins from their pockets and prompted renewed attention to the hobby of coin collecting. It also generated extraordinary public interest as millions of citizens participated in their state’s design selection process or attended their state’s quarter launch.”

    • Comparison of Curation Platforms

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    Via SocialCompare: “Curation Platforms are tools enabling you to select manually content online, to edit and share it. This comparison table is part of a French IT news article about Curoriginal articleation Tools: “Le Guide de la Curation”. For more details about products and criteria, please read to the original article. This comparison is associated… Continue Reading

    Paper – Early warning analysis for social diffusion events

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    Early warning analysis for social diffusion events – Richard Colbaugh1 and Kristin Glass, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM “There is considerable interest in developing predictive capabilities for social diffusion processes, for instance to permit early identification of emerging contentious situations, rapid detection of disease outbreaks, or accurate forecasting of the ultimate reach of potentially “viral”… Continue Reading

    Measures of Retirement Benefit Adequacy: Which, Why, for Whom, and How Much?

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    Measures of Retirement Benefit Adequacy: Which, Why, for Whom, and How Much? Sponsored by Society of Actuaries’ Pension Section and Pension Section Research Committee. Prepared by, Vickie Bajtelsmit, Anna Rappaport, LeAndra Foster, January 2013 “This report focuses on measuring retirement benefit adequacy in light of both expected and unexpected expenses in retirement and linking the… Continue Reading

    New GAO Reports – Veterans' Disability Benefits, VA Health Care, Federal Real Property, Hanford Waste Treatment Plant

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    Veterans’ Disability Benefits – Timely Processing Remains a Daunting Challenge, GAO-13-89, Dec 21, 2012 VA Health Care – Reliability of Reported Outpatient Medical Appointment Wait Times and Scheduling Oversight Need Improvement, GAO-13-130, Dec 21, 2012 Federal Real Property – Improved Cost Reporting Would Help Decision Makers Weigh the Benefits of Enhanced Use Leasing, GAO-13-14, Dec… Continue Reading

    AARP – What Are the Retirement Prospects of Middle-Class Americans?

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    What Are the Retirement Prospects of Middle-Class Americans? – Barbara A. Butrica Urban Institute; Mikki D. Waid, AARP Public Policy Institute, January 2013 “The past three decades have been difficult for middle-class Americans. Wages have stagnated, and jobs have become less secure. Employee contributions to workplace health insurance and retirement plans have reduced take-home pay.… Continue Reading