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News release: “The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury today issued a new regulation that makes good on President Obamas promise that Americans who like their health plan can keep it. The new regulation protects the ability of individuals and businesses to keep their current plan while providing important consumer protections …
News release: “Chairman Frank, on behalf of the House conferees, released the House offer on the titles listed below. The issues will be subject to debate when the House-Senate Conference Committee convenes June 15, 2010. The issues for tomorrows offer: Title 4 of base text: Private Funds Title 9, subtitle C of base text: credit …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Agricultures National Organic Program (NOP) today announced it has reached a settlement agreement with the Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA) regarding its operation in China. The NOP, which is administered by the Agricultural Marketing Service, has struck a settlement agreement with OCIA that prohibits OCIA from operating in China. …
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this graphic from The Economist compares the largest oil spills – excluding military attacks (in millions of barrels), dating back to 1972. The graphic is accompanied by a background image of oil soaked pelicans. See also New York Times – Onshore Spill Response Is Chaotic …
“In formal comments to the California Public Utility Commission, EPIC said that utility customers should control the use of personal information generated by Smart Grid services. EPIC warned that companies will otherwise use the data for purposes not related to electricity delivery, consumption management, or payment. EPIC urged the California Commission to include a requirement …
Follow up to posting, Coast Guard R. Admiral Gives BP 48 Hours to Identify Leak Containment Capacity, this new letter inclusive of graphs, from BP responding to the Admiral’s directive that “sets out the plans for rebuilding additional capacity and redundancy for the containment of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill…” See also this …
Transition to Adulthood The Future of Children, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 2010, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 2010. A Collaboration of The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution. “Todays young people are taking longer to leave home, attain economic independence, and form families of their …
News release: “On Friday, June 11, 2010, the Clinton Library [made] available an additional 41,759 pages of materials relating to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. The records [are] posted on their web site: www.clintonlibrary.gov. The opening includes materials primarily related to Kagans tenure in the White House Counsel’s Office. Other files concern her nomination to …
Marrying Out: One-in-Seven New U.S. Marriages is Interracial or Interethnic, June 6, 2010, by Jeffrey S. Passel, Wendy Wang and Paul Taylor “A record 14.6% of all new marriages in the United States in 2008 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another. This includes marriages between a Hispanic and non- …
News release: “Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today released USDA’s new annual report, Expenditures on Children by Families, which finds that a middle-income family with a child born in 2009 can expect to spend about $222,360 ($286,050 if inflation is factored in) for food, shelter, and other necessities to raise that child over the next 17 …
PricewaterhouseCoopers – Health Research Institute – Behind the numbers: Medical cost trends for 2011 “This annual report on medical cost trends was published in June 2010 and factored the impact of many variables including the US economy, which continues to emerge from a deep recession, as well as healthcare reform, which has phased-in milestones that …
