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Evaluating Military Compensation, April 28, 2010. Testimony before the Subcommittee on Personnel, Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate. “The best barometer of the effectiveness of DoDs compensation system may be how well the military attracts and retains high-quality personnel. Between 2005 and 2008, the services periodically had trouble recruiting or retaining all of the …
Tax Arbitrage by Colleges and Universities, April 2010 Because colleges and universities serve a public purpose advancing higher education and promoting myriad forms of research they enjoy a variety of tax preferences. In addition to being exempt from paying federal income taxes, institutions of higher learning can accept tax deductible charitable contributions and …
2010 Census: Cooperation with Enumerators Is Critical to a Successful Headcount, GAO-10-665T, April 30, 2010 Defense Infrastructure: DOD Needs to Determine and Use the Most Economical Building Materials and Methods When Acquiring New Permanent Facilities, GAO-10-436, April 30, 2010 Defense Logistics: Actions Needed to Improve Implementation of the Army Logistics Modernization Program, GAO-10-461, April 30, …
Gutenberg 2.0 Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change, by Jonathan Shaw, Harvard Magazine, May-June 2010 “Who has the most scientific knowledge of large-scale organization, collection, and access to information? Librarians, says [Peter Bol, Carswell professor of East Asian languages and civilizations]. A librarian can take a book, put it somewhere, and then guarantee to find …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making it easier to find chemical information online. EPA is releasing a database, called ToxRefDB, which allows scientists and the interested public to search and download thousands of toxicity testing results on hundreds of chemicals. ToxRefDB captures 30 years and $2 billion of testing results….ToxRefDB provides …
Life-Cycle Costs of Selected Navy Ships, April 28, 2010, Letter to the Honorable Jeff Sessions “In response to your recent request, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has analyzed the impact of operation and support (O&S) and other types of costs on the total life-cycle costs of four classes of Navy ships…CBOs analysis indicates that O&S …
News release: “A new study released today from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) proposes a new framework for measuring poverty and basic economic security in the United States….The report, A Modern Framework for measuring poverty and basic Economic Security, details how the dominant framework for defining poverty has been defined down over …
“This site is an online resource for anyone seeking information on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It is intended to track EPA’s ongoing work in the area and help answer questions about the incident. We will continue to update as information becomes available.” “Since the British Petroleum Oil Spill in the …
Auto Industry: Lessons Learned from Cash for Clunkers Program, GAO-10-486, April 29, 2010 Department of Veterans Affairs: Preliminary Observations on Issues Related to Contracting Opportunities for Veteran-owned Small Businesses, GAO-10-673T, April 29, 2010 8(a) Program: Fourteen Ineligible Firms Received 5 Million in Sole-Source and Set-Aside Contracts, GAO-10-425, March 30, 2010 Homeland Defense: DOD Can Enhance …
News release: “Many preventive measures for cognitive decline and for preventing Alzheimer’s diseasemental stimulation, exercise, and a variety of dietary supplementshave been studied over the years. However, an independent panel convened this week by the National Institutes of Health determined that the value of these strategies for delaying the onset and/or reducing the severity of …
Greenleaf G., The Global development of free access to legal information, in European Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2010. “Since the mid1990s the Internet’s Worldwide Web has provided the necessary technical platform to enable free access to computerised legal information. Prior to the web there were many online legal information systems …
Confidence Stabilizing, But Preparations Continue to Erode, By Ruth Helman, Mathew Greenwald and Associates, and Craig Copeland and Jack VanDerhei, Employee Benefit Research Institute, March 2010 “The 2010 Retirement Confidence Surveythe 20th annual wave of this surveyfinds that the record-low confidence levels measured during the past two years of economic decline appear to have bottomed …
