News release: “A federal indictment made public today in New Jersey charges five men with conspiring in a worldwide hacking and data breach scheme that targeted major corporate networks, stole more than 160 million credit card numbers, resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses and is the largest such scheme ever prosecuted in… Continue Reading
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As Poverty Grows in the Suburbs, Businesses and Governments Confront New Challenges
Knowledge@Wharton: “When the suburban boom took off in the U.S. in the 1950s, many middle class families moved to those communities as a way to escape the country’s increasingly crowded, dirty and financially strapped cities. But now, as many American cities are gradually being revitalized and the suburbs have expanded outward, some of these former… Continue Reading
82 of top 100 publicly traded U.S. companies operate subsidiaries in tax haven jurisdictions
“With Congress considering big cuts to public programs, U.S. PIRG released fresh evidence that the vast majority of large companies are dodging taxes by stashing money in offshore tax havens. In a study of the top 100 publicly traded companies, as measured by revenue, the study – Offshore Shell Games – reveals that 82 maintain… Continue Reading
The Inequality of Declining Wages During the Recovery
The Inequality of Declining Wages During the Recovery – National Employment Law Project Fact Sheet, July 2013. “A previous NELP analysis found that while job losses during the recession were heavily concentrated in mid-wage occupations, the early recovery was led by employment growth in lower-paying occupations. This fact sheet turns from analyzing employment to analyzing … Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Army Logistics, Coast Guard, Defense Acquisitions, Defective Drywall, Drug Compounding
Army Logistics – Container Handling Equipment Requirements, Contracts, and Inventory, GAO-13-719R, Jul 31, 2013 Coast Guard – Observations on Progress Made and Challenges Faced in Developing and Implementing a Common Operational Picture, GAO-13-784T, Jul 31, 2013 Defense Acquisitions – DOD Efforts to Adopt Open Systems for Its Unmanned Aircraft Systems Have Progressed Slowly, GAO-13-651, Jul… Continue Reading
CREW – U.S. Code now available for bulk download
News release: “Earlier today, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) announced that the US Code is now available for bulk download in XML. This seemingly technical announcement must be understood as a bigger win for transparency than it would initially appear. What the House leadership is doing (in a bipartisan… Continue Reading
New Zagat website is free
Google Official Blog: “[July 29, 2013 we launched] a new Zagat website and mobile app for Android and iPhone that puts the very best restaurants and nightspots right at your fingertips. And for the first time, our trusted Zagat ratings and reviews are available for free with no registration required. The new Zagat features the… Continue Reading
UN – Afghan conflict takes increasing toll on civilians in first half of 2013
News release: “The number of Afghan civilians killed or injured in the first half of 2013 rose by 23 per cent compared to the same period last year, owing mainly to the increased use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by insurgents, according to a United Nations report released today. The mid-year report on the protection… Continue Reading
FSA Anti-money laundering annual report 2012/13
Anti-money laundering annual report 2012/13: “This report sets out our obligations relating to anti-money laundering, our approach to carrying out those obligations, and the trends and emerging risks in money laundering that we are seeing in the firms we regulate.” July 25, 2012, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Continue Reading
Dallas Fed – The Costs and Consequences of the 2007–09 Financial Crisis
How Bad Was It? The Costs and Consequences of the 2007–09 Financial Crisis – Staff PAPERS. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas No. 20, July 2013. Tyler Atkinson, David Luttrell, Harvey Rosenblum “The 2007-2009 financial crisis was associated with a huge loss of economic output and financial wealth, psychological consequences and skill atrophy from extended unemployment,… Continue Reading
NSA tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’
Glenn Greenwald, TheGuardian.com: “A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its “widest-reaching”… Continue Reading
Report – Higher education remains separate and unequal
“The higher education system is more and more complicit as a passive agent in the systematic reproduction of white racial privilege across generations. This is the core finding in a new study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW), Separate and Unequal: How Higher Education Reinforces the Intergenerational Reproduction of White… Continue Reading
