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Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset [SIGTARP] Relief Program Advancing Economic Stability Through Transparency, Coordinated Oversight and Robust Enforcement – Quarterly Report to Congress – October 21, 2009 “More than a year has now passed since the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) authorized creation of the Troubled Asset Relief …
2010 Census: Efforts to Build an Accurate Address List Are Making Progress, but Face Software and Other Challenges, GAO-10-140T, October 21, 2009 U.S. Department of Agriculture: Internal Control Would Improve Accountability for Certain Centrally Provided (Greenbook) Programs, GAO-10-82, October 20, 2009 Credit Cards: Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Could Better Reflect the Evolving Debt Collection …
News release: ‘Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed in September. Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 19 states registered rate decreases, and 8 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the year, jobless rates increased in all 50 states …
Twitter and Status Updating, Fall 2009, by Susannah Fox, Kathryn Zickuhr, Aaron Smith – Oct 21, 2009 “Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. This represents a significant increase over previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009, …
Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District, October 21, 2009 – Full Report and Districts “Reports from the 12 Federal Reserve Districts indicated either stabilization or modest improvements in many sectors since the last report, albeit often from depressed levels. Leading the more positive sector reports among Districts were residential real estate and manufacturing, both …
News release: “Over the past eight years, more in-house counsel have required specific terms of retention that govern what they expect from their outside counsel, according to the results of the 2008 ACC/Serengeti Managing Outside Counsel Survey, a collaboration between the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and Serengeti Law, released at ACCs Annual Meeting, October …
Energy Trends – Highlights on consumer energy usage, October 2009 “The survey shows that green pricing program participation is greatest among higher educated households who earn an income of $50K or more. Due to the fact that installation is not necessary, we find that there is no distinctive difference between homeowners and renters as a …
Updated State and Local Option Sales Tax, by Kail Padgitt, Fiscal Fact No. 196 “Sales taxes are paradoxically transparent and non-transparent. A taxpayer can easily see how high the tax is by looking at the receipt for any purchase. It’s hard to imagine a more transparent tax. However, due to the wide variety of local …
UN: Reform of the Committee on World Food Security – Final Version “The rise in food prices in 2007-08, followed by the financial and economic crisis in 2009, has highlighted the unacceptable levels of structural poverty and hunger around the world. The food and financial crisis threatens global food security and nutrition and the achievement …
October 02, 2009 – Income and Poverty Among Older Americans in 2008 October 01, 2009 – Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance October 01, 2009 – Air Force C-17 Aircraft Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress September 30, 2009 – Guinea’s 2008 Military Coup and Relations with the United States September 30, 2009 – Cybersecurity: …
