Information Sharing – Additional Actions Could Help Ensure That Efforts to Share Terrorism-Related Suspicious Activity Reports Are Effective [Reissued on March 26, 2013] GAO-13-233, Mar 13, 2013 International Religious Freedom Act – State Department and Commission Are Implementing Responsibilities but Need to Improve Interaction, GAO-13-196, Mar 26, 2013 Continue Reading
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Presidential Commission Report – Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research
“The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues today issued its report concerning federally-sponsored research involving human volunteers, concluding that current rules and regulations provide adequate safeguards to mitigate risk. In its report, Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research, the Commission also recommended 14 changes to current practices to better protect research… Continue Reading
EPA Survey Finds More Than Half of the Nations River and Stream Miles in Poor Condition
News release: “…the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the results of the first comprehensive survey looking at the health of thousands of stream and river miles across the country, finding that more than half 55 percent are in poor condition for aquatic life. The 2008-2009 National Rivers and Stream Assessment reflects the most… Continue Reading
Milliman 2013 Pension Funding Study
De-risking efforts by plan sponsors reduce pension obligations, but continued discount rate declines produce record-high pension plan deficits in 2012: “Pension de-risking activities were pursued by several of the top 100 U.S. pension plans during 2012. Data collected for fiscal years ending in the year indicates that at least 15 companies engaged in significant risk-reduction… Continue Reading
HealthCare.gov – Find Insurance Options
“This tool will help you find the health insurance best suited to your needs, whether it’s private insurance for individuals, families, and small businesses, or public programs that may work for you. It was created to help consumers under the health insurance reform law, the Affordable Care Act.” Includes pricing information. Continue Reading
Costs and Benefits Advantages of Telecommuting For Companies
The Telework Research Network: “Were read over 500 studies about telecommuting and here are what weve found to be the most common advantages for the companies that establish work from home programs. The following pros and cons of work from home programs arent just our view, theyre the outcomes from a wide range of studies.… Continue Reading
TRAC – Drop in Employment Civil Rights Lawsuits
“The latest available data from the federal courts show that during February 2013 the government reported 950 new lawsuits filed under the category of Employment Civil Rights, according to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). This number is down 7.9 percent from the previous month and is 13.2 percent lower… Continue Reading
Kaiser – Visualizing Health Policy: Medicaid Expansion under the Affordable Care Act
“This months Visualizing Health Policy infographic considers who will be covered under the Affordable Care Acts Medicaid expansion provisions, which states have opted to implement or not implement the ACA Medicaid expansion, the proportion of nonelderly uninsured individuals who will likely remain uninsured, how Medicaid will streamline the enrollment process, and how the cost of… Continue Reading
Report – How the 50 States Rate in Providing Online Access to Government Spending Data
“Every year, state governments spend tens of billions of dollars through contracts with private entities for goods and services, subsidies to encourage economic development, grants, and other forms of spending. Accountability and public scrutiny are necessary to ensure that state funds are well spent. In recent years, state governments across the country have created transparency… Continue Reading
Proposed new EU General Data Protection Regulation
Proposed new EU General Data Protection Regulation: Article-by-article analysis paper, V1.0 12 February 2013. UK Information Commission Office (ICO). “We originally produced this document for two main audiences the ICOs own staff and the Ministry of Justice, to help to inform the UKs negotiations in Europe. However, it has become clear that the information… Continue Reading
Nature.com – Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility
Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, César A. Hidalgo, Michel Verleysen & Vincent D. Blondel. Scientific Reports 3; Article number:1376; doi:10.1038/srep01376; Published 25 March 2013 “We study fifteen months of human mobility data for one and a half million individuals and find that human mobility traces are highly… Continue Reading
Urban Institute – Unemployment from a Child's Perspective
Unemployment from a Child’s Perspective, by Julia Isaacs. Released online: March 25, 2013 “This issue brief examines unemployment from a child’s perspective, reporting that 6.2 million children lived in families with unemployed parents in 2012. Many of these children live with parents who have been out of work six month or longer. Unemployment insurance covers… Continue Reading
