U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians, Jim Zanotti, Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs. January 18, 2013: “Since the establishment of limited Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the mid-1990s, the U.S. government has committed over $4 billion in bilateral assistance to the Palestinians, who are among the worlds largest per capita… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Guide to Using American FactFinder 2 – Census Bureau's data access system
Linda Zellmer, Government Information & Data Services Librarian: “This guide has been developed to give users a basic introduction to Census Data and American FactFinder 2, the U.S. Census Bureau’s data access system. American FactFinder has several different search options, a basic keyword search, a Guided Search and an Advanced Search system, as well as… Continue Reading
U.S. Military Casualty Statistics: Operation New Dawn, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom
CRS – U.S. Military Casualty Statistics: Operation New Dawn, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom. Hannah Fischer, Information Research Specialist, February 5, 2013 “This report presents statistics regarding U.S. military casualties in the active Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF, Afghanistan), as well as operations that have ended: Operation New Dawn (OND, Iraq) and Operation Iraqi… Continue Reading
TRAC – Federal Prosecution Data for October 2012
TRAC: “Federal criminal prosecutions totaled 13,764 for the month of October, according to the most recent data released by the Department of Justice. This was an increase of 4.5 percent from the previous month. Most prosecutions were referred by DHS, which accounted for 59 percent. Other agencies with substantial numbers of referrals were the FBI… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – 8(a) Sole-Source Contracts, Warfighter Support
National Defense – DOD’s Implementation of Justifications for 8(a) Sole-Source Contracts, GAO-13-308R, Feb 8, 2013 Warfighter Support- DOD Needs Additional Steps to Fully Integrate Operational Contract Support into Contingency Planning, GAO-13-212, Feb 8, 2013 Continue Reading
Consumer Fraud Liability Study 2013
“Payments fraud is an ever-changing beast, with fraudsters and law enforcement officials effectively playing a game of personal finance one-upmanship. Not only do consumers feel the need to worry about the traditional means by which criminals might gain access to their funds such as shoulder surfing at ATMs, technology that makes it easy to… Continue Reading
BLS – Women in the Labor Force
Women in the Labor Force: A Databook, February 2013 “Over the past 4 decades, women have made notable changes in their labor force activities. Labor force participation is significantly higher among women today than it was in the 1970s, particularly among women with children, and a larger share of women are working full time and… Continue Reading
NISO Recommended Practices for Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials
“The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) voting members have approved a new project to develop standardized bibliographic metadata and visual indicators to describe the accessibility of journal articles as well as potentially describe how open the item is. Many offerings are available from publishers under the banner of Open Access (OA), Increased Access, Public Access,… Continue Reading
International financial markets and bank funding in the euro area: dynamics and participants
International financial markets and bank funding in the euro area: dynamics and participants, by Jaime Caruana and Adrian Van Rixtel February 2013 (originally published in Spanish in the journal “Economistas”, in December 2012) “This article investigates the development of bank funding in the euro area in recent years, analysing how euro area funding markets were… Continue Reading
Second-Generation Americans A Portrait of the Adult Children of Immigrants
“Second-generation Americansthe 20 million adult U.S.-born children of immigrantsare substantially better off than immigrants themselves on key measures of socioeconomic attainment, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. They have higher incomes; more are college graduates and homeowners; and fewer live in poverty. In all of these measures, their… Continue Reading
EPIC – States Move to Limit Drone Surveillance
“Oregon became the most recent state to consider limits on the deployment of drones in the United States. A new bill sets out licensing requirements for drone use in Oregon and would fine those who use unlicensed drone to conduct surveillance. New limitations are also proposed for federal evidence collected by drone use in a… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Cuba Democracy Assistance, Space, Sex Offender Registration, Sub-Saharan Africa,
Cuba Democracy Assistance – USAID’s Program Is Improved, but State Could Better Monitor Its Implementing Partners, GAO-13-285, Jan 25, 2013 Space – Launch Services New Entrant Certification Guide, GAO-13-317R, Feb 7, 2013 Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, Jurisdictions Face Challenges to Implementing the Act, and Stakeholders Report Positive and Negative Effects, GAO-13-211, Feb 7,… Continue Reading
