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Monthly Archives: April 2013

New GAO Reports: State and Local Governments' Fiscal Outlook, Toxic Substances

State and Local Governments’ Fiscal Outlook – April 2013 Update, GAO-13-546SP, Apr 29, 2013: “The state and local government sector continues to face near-term and long-term fiscal challenges which add to the nation’s overall fiscal challenges. The state and local sector faces a gap between revenue and spending and long-term fiscal challenges that grow over… Continue Reading

East Carolina LibGuide – Annoucing the Cold War & Internal Security Collection

David Durant, East Carolina University: “J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, is pleased to announce the creation of the Cold War and Internal Security (CWIS) Collection. The CWIS Collection is a print archive containing over 1,000 congressional hearings, reports and committee prints, published between 1934-1976, dealing with congressional investigations of organizations deemed “subversive” or “un-American”.… Continue Reading

BBC News: Bee Deaths – EU to ban neonicotinoid pesticides

BBC News: “An EU vote last month was inconclusive, so the Commission proposal went to an appeals committee on Monday – and again the countries were split on the issue. Some restrictions are already in place for neonicotinoids in France, Germany, Italy and Slovenia. The three neonicotinoids are clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiametoxam. A report published… Continue Reading

PLUS Registry – Find and contact artists, rights-holders, licensors, licensees and archives

“The PLUS Registry is an online resource developed and operated cooperatively by a global Coalition of all communities engaged in creating, using, distributing and preserving images. Search the Registry to find rights and descriptive information (“metadata”) for any image, and to find current contact information for related creators, rights holders and institutions. Register for a… Continue Reading

Inflation-Indexing Elements in Federal Entitlement Programs

CRS – Inflation-Indexing Elements in Federal Entitlement Programs, Dawn Nuschler, Coordinator, Specialist in Income Security, April 24, 2013 “In recent years, various proposals have been discussed in the context of ways to reduce federal budget deficits. One of the proposals, for example, is the use of a different measure of consumer price change to index… Continue Reading

New Bipartisan Legislation Targets "Too Big to Fail"

News release: “U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and David Vitter (R-LA) announced a new plan that would prevent any one financial institution from becoming so large and over leveraged that it could put our economy on the brink of collapse or trigger the need for a federal bailout…Despite receiving assistance from taxpayers in 2008, today,… Continue Reading

CBO – Presentation on Innovation Policy

CBO Director Doug Elmendorf: “I spoke this afternoon at a conference on “Innovation Policy and the Economy organized by the National Bureau of Economic Research. My presentation explored a wide array of possible changes in federal policy that might bolster innovation, including more spending on research and development, increased support for education, lower taxes on… Continue Reading