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New York Times: “The United States is failing to develop the math skills of both girls and boys, especially among those who could excel at the highest levels, a new study asserts, and girls who do succeed in the field are almost all immigrants or the daughters of immigrants from countries where mathematics is more …
Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Terrorist Assets Report 2007: “The Department of the Treasurys Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is the lead office for implementing sanctions with respect to assets of international terrorist organizations and terrorism-supporting countries. OFAC implements these sanctions as part of its general mission to administer …
New York Times: “A legislative committee investigating Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the Republican vice presidential candidate, issued a report Friday night that found she unlawfully abused her authority by firing the states public safety commissioner. While the report concluded that a family grudge was not the only reason for dismissing the commissioner, Walter Monegan, …
EPA Children’s Environmental Health: 2008 Highlights “In the field of environmental protection, even experts did not always recognize that children are different from adults. were first written with the average American adultnot childrenin mind. Calculating the environmental contribution to disease is an evolving field, and the question of how much disease can be prevented through …
News release: “The FDIC Board of Directors today adopted an interim final rule, effective immediately, to simplify the deposit insurance rules for accounts held at FDIC-insured institutions by mortgage servicers…Under the interim rule, coverage will be provided to the lenders/investors, as a collective group, based on the cumulative amount of the borrowers’ payments of principal …
Statutory Structure and Legislative Drafting Conventions: A Primer for Judges, M. Douglass Bellis, Deputy Legislative Counsel, United States House of Representatives, Federal Judicial Center 2008 “The Federal Judicial Center has published a guide, Statutory Structure and Legislative Drafting Conventions: A Primer for Judges. It describes the statutory framework of federal law and examines some legislative …
News release: “I briefed my colleagues on the work we are pursuing to implement swiftly and thoughtfully the new financial rescue package. We are developing strategies to use the authority to purchase and insure mortgage assets and to purchase equity in financial institutions, as deemed necessary to promote financial market stability. As we develop plans …
News release: “The G-7 agrees today that the current situation calls for urgent and exceptional action. We commit to continue working together to stabilize financial markets and restore the flow of credit, to support global economic growth. We agree to: Take decisive action and use all available tools to support systemically important financial institutions and …
OIG-08-93 – Review of FEMA’s Sheltering and Transitional Housing Activities after Hurricane Katrina, September 2008 (PDF, 54 pages) Related postings on Katrina
News release: “Online scammers are taking advantage of tough economic times. While e-mails phishing for sensitive data are nothing new, scammers are taking advantage of upheavals in the financial marketplace to confuse consumers into parting with valuable personal information. The Federal Trade Commission urges caution regarding e-mails that look as if they come from a …
News release: “The President’s Working Group on Financial Markets issued its policy statement update today, before the G-7, IMF and World Bank meetings, to report on implementation of its March 2008 policy recommendations to improve the state of U.S. and global financial markets…The report [Progress Update on March Policy Statement on Financial Market Developments, The …
Women’s Health and Election 2008: “Women consistently cite health care as one of the top issues they want the Presidential candidates to address, reflecting their experiences with the health care system as patients, mothers, and caregivers for frail and disabled family members. Womens priorities for health care reform cut across many critical topics, including health …
