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New York Times: “The nations 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 FTCs report states that the music industry still has not adopted objective marketing standards …
“Today, one in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain out of work. One in nine families can’t make the minimum payment on their credit cards. One in eight mortgages is in default or foreclosure. One in eight Americans is on food stamps. More than 120,000 families are filing for bankruptcy every month. The …
Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2008 Dec 3, 2009. Annual inventory of anthropogenic (human-caused) greenhouse gases in the United States. U.S. Energy Information Administration Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting U.S. Department of Energy. Energy-related CO2 emissions dominate total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The figures..show the shares of energy-related CO2 emissions …
DOJ’s Civil Rights Division: Opportunities Exist to Improve Its Case Management System and Better Meet Its Reporting Needs GAO-09-938R, September 30, 2009 Federal Research: NASA Should Better Inform Researchers about How to Appeal Dissemination Decisions, GAO-10-200, December 3, 2009 Hurricane Katrina: Federal Grants Have Helped Health Care Organizations Provide Primary Care, but Sustaining Services Will …
Pew Center for People and the Press: Americas Place in the World 2009 – U.S. Seen as Less Important, China as More Powerful, December 3, 2009 “The general public and members of the Council on Foreign Relations are apprehensive and uncertain about Americas place in the world. Growing numbers in both groups see the United …
The Use of Agricultural Offsets to Reduce Greenhouse Gases, December 3, 2009. Testimony before the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research, Committee on Agriculture, U.S. House of Representatives. “Offsets used as a part of a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse-gas emissions have the potential to reduce the cost of meeting the cap by substituting cheaper …
Official Google Blog: “The main feature of the new homepage is that it “fades in” when the page first loads, it shows only our logo, the search box and the buttons. For the vast majority of people who come to the Google homepage, they are coming in order to search, and this clean, minimalist …
Brenner, Robert. (2009). What is Good for Goldman Sachs is Good for America The Origins of the Present Crisis. UC Los Angeles: Center for Social Theory and Comparative History. Retrieved from: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sg0782h “Robert Brenner outlines the long-term causes of the present economic crisis. Rather than understanding the current downturn as merely a function of financial …
Google News Blog: “There are more than 25,000 publishers from around the world in Google News today. [With] the new Google News web crawler publishers [can]…keep their content out of Google News and still remain in Google Search…if a publisher wants to opt out of Google News, they don’t even have to contact us – …
