“On March 31, 1981, John W. Hinckley, Jr., shot President Ronald Reagan and several others in a failed assassination attempt. The FBI conducted an extensive investigation, named REAGAT. This FOIA release consists of an extensive Prosecutive Report submitted by the FBI to the Department of Justice in May 1981 as Justice lawyers considered how to… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Global Security Contingency Fund: Summary and Issue Overview
CRS – Global Security Contingency Fund: Summary and Issue Overview. Nina M. Serafino, Specialist in International Security Affairs, January 22, 2013 “The FY2012 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 112-81), Section 1207, created a new Global Security Contingency Fund (GSCF) as a four-year pilot project to be jointly administered and funded by the Department of Defense… Continue Reading
Assessing the Macroeconomic Impact of Structural Reforms The Case of Italy
IMF – Assessing the Macroeconomic Impact of Structural Reforms The Case of Italy, Lusine Lusinyan and Dirk Muir. January 24, 2013 “Wide-ranging structural reforms are underway in Italy, aimed at addressing key bottlenecks in the product and labor markets. Our analysis, based on the IMFs Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal model (GIMF), attempts to quantify… Continue Reading
Receipt of Unemployment Insurance by Higher-Income Unemployed Workers
CRS – Receipt of Unemployment Insurance by Higher-Income Unemployed Workers (Millionaires). Donald Hirasuna, Analyst in Labor Policy, January 23, 2013 To inform the ongoing policy debate, this report provides information relevant to proposals that would restrict the payment of unemployment benefits to individuals with high incomes. Three primary areas that may be of interest to… Continue Reading
Tax Havens: International Tax Avoidance and Evasion
CRS – Tax Havens: International Tax Avoidance and Evasion. Jane G. Gravelle, Senior Specialist in Economic Policy, January 23, 2013 “Multinational firms can artificially shift profits from high-tax to low-tax jurisdictions using a variety of techniques, such as shifting debt to high-tax jurisdictions. Since tax on the income of foreign subsidiaries (except for certain passive… Continue Reading
America's Children and the Environment, Third Edition
“Americas Children and the Environment, Third Edition; Appendices to the Report (data tables, metadata, alignment of ACE3 indicators with Healthy People 2020 objectives) is an EPA report that presents key information on environmental stressors that can affect childrens health. In January 2013, EPA released an updated third edition of this report (ACE3) that shows the… Continue Reading
UK – Recession hits workplaces, but not employee attitudes
National Institute of Economic and Social Research: “According to the latest Workplace Employment Relations Study, the recession has had a profound impact on Britain’s workplaces. In many workplaces, managers have responded with changes in their staffing practices, with one third (33%) of employees seeing their wages frozen or cut and 29% seeing their workload increased.… Continue Reading
MappyHealth – We are tracking disease trends, 140 characters at a time
“MappyHealth mines twitter data looking for health term trends. It is hypothesized that social data could be a predictor to outbreaks of disease. We track disease terms and associated qualifiers to present these social trends. We have found that every term and condition trend tracked on our site has a band of social noise. This… Continue Reading
CDT: Feds Boost Privacy Protections for Medical Records
CDT: “The privacy protections guarding the care and handling of your medical records just got stronger a lot stronger. The new rules bolster prohibitions against use of a patient’s medical records without consent for marketing communications; extend federal privacy and security protections to contractors (and subcontractors) of doctors, hospitals and insurers; improved your right to… Continue Reading
"Carnegie Mellon researchers devise grammar-aware password cracker"
News release: “When writing or speaking, good grammar helps people make themselves be understood. But when used to concoct a long computer password, grammar good or bad provides crucial hints that can help someone crack that password, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated. A team led by Ashwini Rao, a software engineering… Continue Reading
LA Times – Inauguration 2013: Richard Blanco's poem captures nation's hope, unease
LA Times: “In about 550 words, Richard Blancos inaugural poem created a metaphorical country and took it through the journey of a metaphorical day. One Today was an intimate and sweeping celebration of our shared, single identity as a people, and Blanco recited it in a voice that was both confident and tenderly soft-spoken. Blanco… Continue Reading
The Public's Policy Agenda for the 113th Congress
“As the 113th Congress is sworn in, and President Barack Obama begins his second term of office, a comprehensive new Kaiser Family Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health survey queried the public about their priorities for, and views on, a wide range of health and health policy issues. These include issues that will… Continue Reading
