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National Alliance for Caregiving in Collaboration with AARP: “Caregiving is still mostly a woman’s job and many women are putting their career and financial futures on hold as they juggle part-time caregiving and full-time job requirements. This is the reality reported in Caregiving in the U.S. 2009, the most comprehensive examination to date of caregiving …
Investing for Success Examining a Federal Capital Budget and a National Infrastructure Bank, Emilia Istrate and Robert Puentes, Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings “Todays fiscally constrained environment demands a new approach to infrastructure policy, allowing us to upgrade our existing infrastructure, expand choices in moving people and goods (and ideas), ease the burden on household …
Via U.S. Dept. of State: Lobbying the Executive Branch: Current Practices and Options for Change, Jacob R. Straus, Analyst on the Congress, December 1, 2009 “This report outlines the development of registration requirements for lobbyists engaging executive branch officials since 1995. It also summarizes steps taken by the Obama Administration to limit and monitor lobbying …
Preliminary 2009 Fatality Statistics – Law Enforcement Officer Fatality Statistics as of December 12, 2009: Gunfire – 47 deaths, 24% increase to date from 2008.
Transcript: “Over the past two years, more than seven million Americans have lost their jobs, and factories and businesses across our country have been shuttered. In one way or another, weve all been touched by the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression…But much of it was due to the irresponsibility of large financial institutions …
Chairs Proposed Draft Text on the Outcome of the Work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action under the Convention, Version 11/12/09 Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) draft texts WSJ – Map: CO2 by Country | Data: Emissions | Timeline …
News release: “The House of Representatives today showed a renewed commitment to defeat cancer, passing an FY 2010 domestic appropriations bill that includes long overdue increases for cancer prevention services and helps to sustain critical research funding levels. The legislation would provide an 8.8 percent increase for cancer prevention and control programs at the Centers …
Federal Times: “The two councils that amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation published seven new rules in the Federal Register…one finalizes an interim rule encouraging food service contractors to donate wholesome excess food to nonprofit organizations that provide assistance to food-insecure people in the United States. Federal Register: “The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense …
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Rail Transit: Observations on FTA’s State Safety Oversight Program and Potential Change in Its Oversight Role, GAO-10-314T, December 10, 2009 Recovery Act: States’ Use of Highway and Transit Funds and Efforts to Meet the Act’s Requirements, GAO-10-312T, December 10, 2009 Recovery Act: Status of States’ and Localities’ Use of Funds and Efforts to Ensure Accountability, …
“The government should do more to help businesses create jobs amid a continuing bleak outlook for the U.S. labor market, according to most economists in the latest Wall Street Journal survey.” Charts and Data: Jobs, housing, GDP, more Related postings on financial system
Huffington Post Investigative Fund: “here’s a guide to how the current bills in the House and Senate approach three major problem areas in the financial system.”
