Day archives: December 4th, 2009

Latest Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Report Indicates Uptick

New York Times: “The nation’s employers not only have stopped eliminating large numbers of jobs, but appear to be on the verge of rebuilding the American work force, devastated by the recession.” News release: “The unemployment rate edged down to 10.0 percent in November, and nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged (-11,000), the U.S. Bureau …

Subjects: Government Documents

Google Public Domain Name System

Official Google Blog: “Today, as part of our ongoing effort to make the web faster, we’re launching our own public DNS resolver called Google Public DNS, and we invite you to try it out. Most of us aren’t familiar with DNS because it’s often handled automatically by our Internet Service Provider (ISP), but it provides …

Subjects: Domain Names, Search Engines

CRS Memo: Public and Private Expenditures for Health Care, 2007

Follow up to previous postings on health care reform, today’s news release: “U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) released the following statement today regarding a new report by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) that shows that 60 percent of health care spending in the U.S. ($1.35 trillion out of $2.24 trillion) is controlled by …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legislation

FTC Renews Call to Entertainment Industry to Curb Marketing of Violent Entertainment to Children

News release: “Marketers of violent music, movies, and video games can do more to restrict the promotion of these products to children, according to the seventh in a series of Federal Trade Commission reports on marketing violent entertainment to children. The FTC’s report states that the music industry still has not adopted objective marketing standards …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Government Documents, Marketing