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News release: “Today U.S. Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, held a hearing on strengthening the 401(k) system, with a particular focus on the proliferation, composition, and regulation of target date funds. Target date funds, sometimes called lifecycle funds, are a type of mutual fund that automatically rebalances to …
401(K) Plans: Several Factors Can Diminish Retirement Savings, but Automatic Enrollment Shows Promise for Increasing Participation and Savings, GAO-10-153T, October 28, 2009 Higher Education and Disability: Education Needs a Coordinated Approach to Improve Its Assistance to Schools in Supporting Students, GAO-10-33, October 28, 2009 Human Capital: Monitoring of Safeguards and Addressing Employee Perceptions Are Key …
10-004 Iraq Reconstruction Funds: Forensic Audits Identifying Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Interim Report #1, October 28, 2009: “Our 17 audits of major reconstruction contracts involving about $6.4 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds identified a number of common or crosscutting internal control weaknesses…”
News release: “Today, Obama Administration officials released a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by nine Federal Departments and Agencies to make it faster and simpler to build transmission lines on Federal lands. The goal of the agreement is to speed approval of new transmission lines, reduce expense and uncertainty in the process, generate cost savings, …
New York Times: “In September 2008, the Bush administration changed domestic intelligence-gathering rules. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s interpretation of those rules was recently made public when the bureau released a redacted copy of its “Domestic Investigations and Operation Guide” in response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit. The new rules have given F.B.I. agents …
