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The CEO Poverty Measure, 2005 – 2011

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The CEO Poverty Measure, 2005 – 2011. An Annual Report by the NYC Center for Economic Opportunity, April 2013

  • “This year’s Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) report on poverty in New York City reflects a turning point. Our two prior annual reports documented the growing importance of the social safety net at a time when the job market was contracting and earned income was in decline. For many low-income families, the distance between their earnings and the poverty line widened. At the same time the safety net expanded, filling some, but not all, of the gap. As a consequence, from 2008 to 2010, the City poverty rate rose.”

    • PortfolioStat 2.0: Driving Better Management and Efficiency in Federal IT

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    “In March 2012, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) initiated PortfolioStat. Agencies across the Federal government undertook a data-driven effort to examine their IT portfolios to identify common areas of spending with the goal of decreasing duplication and driving down costs. Through this process, agencies identified more than $2.5 billion in spending reductions that… Continue Reading

    Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community

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    Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community. James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, April 18, 2013 “This year, in both content and organization, this statement illustrates how quickly and radically the world—and our threat environment—are changing. This environment is demanding reevaluations of the way we do business, expanding our analytic envelope, and altering… Continue Reading

    Federal Agency Data Mining Report 2012

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    Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 2012 Data Mining Report For the Period January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012: “The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) provides this report pursuant to Section 804 of the Implementing the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, entitled The Federal Agency Data Mining… Continue Reading

    The National Intelligence Council's Global Trends Report

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    “The National Intelligence Council’s (NIC) Global Trends Report engages expertise from outside government on factors of such as globalization, demography and the environment, producing a forward-looking document to aid policymakers in their long term planning on key issues of worldwide importance…Global Trends 2030 is intended to stimulate thinking about the rapid and vast geopolitical changes… Continue Reading

    FTC Survey for 2011 Shows an Estimated 25.6 Million Americans Fell Victim to Fraud

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    News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today released a statistical survey of fraud in the United States during 2011, which showed that an estimated 25.6 million adults – 10.8 percent of the adult population – were fraud victims…While fast-growing online commerce has benefited consumers with greater choice and convenience, the survey indicates that, as of… Continue Reading

    Engagement at Work: Its Effect on Performance Continues in Tough Economic Times

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    “Gallup in 1997 completed its first meta-analysis — or study of many studies — on employee engagement using data from 1,135 business units. The central question we wanted to answer was whether workplace conditions correlate with business outcomes such as profit, productivity, customer perceptions of service, and employee retention. We just completed our eighth iteration… Continue Reading