Day archives: December 9th, 2007

New CRS Reports: FCC and Media Ownership, China, THUD, State Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Pension Protection, RFS

The FCC’s 10 Commissioned Economic Research Studies on Media Ownership: Policy Implications, December 5, 2007 China’s 17th Communist Party Congress, 2007: Leadership and Policy Implications, December 5, 2007 State Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Comparison and Analysis, December 5, 2007 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education: FY2008 Appropriations, December 4, 2007 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation

EU Study – Trafficking in human beings: Internet recruitment

Trafficking in human beings: Internet recruitment. Misuse of the Internet for the recruitment of victims of trafficking in human beings, prepared by Athanassia P. Sykiotou, Lecturer in Criminology, Faculty of Law, Democritus University of Thrace (Greece). Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs Council of Europe 2007. (150 pages, PDF) The Campaign: Human being …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Internet, Legal Research

CRS Report – Open Source Intelligence

Via OpenCRS – CRS Report, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): Issues for Congress, December 5, 2007 (27 pages, PDF). “Open source information (OSINT) is derived from newspapers, journals, radio and television, and the Internet. Intelligence analysts have long used such information to supplement classified data, but systematically collecting open source information has not been a priority …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Pew Hispanic Center Report on 2008 Elections

Hispanics and the 2008 Election: A Swing Vote?, by Paul Taylor and Richard Fry, Pew Hispanic Center, December 6, 2007: “After spending the first part of this decade loosening their historic ties to the Democratic Party, Hispanic voters have reversed course in the past year, a new nationwide survey of Latinos by the Pew Hispanic …

Subjects: E-Government

PQ Media Report: Campaign Media Spending to Grow 64.1% in 2008 to All-Time High of $4.50 Billion

Press release: “Political campaign spending on advertising media and marketing services is expected to rocket to an all-time high of $4.50 billion in the 2008 election cycle, as an acrimonious political environment, record fundraising and the high number of presidential candidates are driving an unprecedented media spending splurge, according to a preliminary forecast analysis released …

Subjects: E-Government

New CBO Reports: Monthly Budget Review, Impact of Unauthorized Immigrants on the Budgets of State and Local Governments, Cost Estimate for Energy Independence and Security Ac

Monthly Budget Review, December 2007: “The federal budget deficit was $157 billion during the first two months of fiscal year 2008, CBO estimates, $35 billion more than the shortfall recorded through November of last year. Close to half of that difference is the result of shifts in the timing of certain payments and a difference …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation

Role of Health Insurance Coverage in Women's Access to Prescription Medicines

Role of Health Insurance Coverage in Women’s Access to Prescription Medicines: “This article presents findings from the 2004 Kaiser Women’s Health Survey examining how health insurance coverage affects access to prescription medicines for non-elderly women. Results from the nationally representative telephone survey indicate that a lack of health insurance coverage is significantly associated with experiencing …

Subjects: Internet

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