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Health and Human Services Hospital Compare: “This tool provides you with information on how well the hospitals in your area care for all their adult patients with certain medical conditions. Hospital Compare was created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Health and Human Services, and other …
Press release: “NOAA today released its annual report on the status of U.S. marine fisheries for 2006, tracking both population levels and harvest rates for species caught in federal marine waters, between three and 200 miles off U.S. coasts. In 2006, the report shows population levels for 187 fish stocks and multi-species groupings known as …
Press release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced a final rule establishing regulations to require current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) for dietary supplements. The rule ensures that dietary supplements are produced in a quality manner, do not contain contaminants or impurities, and are accurately labeled.” Backgrounder Fact Sheet To see a consumer article …
110th Congressional Pictorial Directory: “Provides photographs of each member of the House of Representatives and the Senate, information about a Member of Congress’ length of service, political party affiliations, Congressional district and more.”
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. Progress Has Been Slow in Meeting Homeland Security Presidential Directive12 Requirements, June 20, 2007. Reference Number: 2007-20-110 “The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been experiencing delays in issuing new identification cards to employees and contractors that enhance security, reduce identity fraud, and protect the personal privacy of employees and …
CBO Testimony, Statement of Peter R. Orszag, Director – Health Care and the Budget: Issues and Challenges for Reform before the Committee on the Budget, United States Senate, June 21, 2007. (30 pages, PDF)
NCS: Occupational Wages in the United States, June 2006 — Summary (26 pages, PDF) 06/19/2007 Mass Layoffs (Monthly) 06/22/2007 Employer Costs for Employee Compensation 06/21/2007 Regional and State Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) 06/19/2007 See also: EU Minimum wages 2007 – variations from 92 to 1570 euro gross per month – Issue number 71/2007, release date …
The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2010 – “In this detailed white paper, IDC researches and analyzes the impact of ever-increasing amounts of digital information generated worldwide. It defines the digital universe and forecasts its growth to an incredible 988 exabytes (or 988 billion gigabytes) in the year 2010. Get …
Donald Tapscott’s White Paper: Winning With The Enterprise 2.0, “addresses the advantages and challenges of implementing E2 technologies.” (62 pages, PDF)
CBO A series of issue summaries from the Congressional Budget Office, June 20, 2007 – Explaining the Consumer Price Index “The consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) is the best-known official measure of inflation. Published monthly by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the CPI-U tries to approximate changes in the cost …
