Day archives: August 3rd, 2010

New GAO Reports: For-Profit Colleges, Financial Assistance for Private Sector Companies, Highway Trust Fund

For-Profit Colleges: Undercover Testing Finds Colleges Encouraged Fraud and Engaged in Deceptive and Questionable Marketing Practices, GAO-10-948T, August 04, 2010 Financial Assistance: Ongoing Challenges and Guiding Principles Related to Government Assistance For Private Sector Companies, GAO-10-719, August 03, 2010 Highway Trust Fund: Nearly All States Received More Funding Than They Contributed in Highway Taxes Since …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

BEA: Personal Income and Outlays, June 2010

Bureau of Economic Analysis National Economic Accounts – Personal Income and Outlays, June 2010 Revised Estimates: 2007 Through May 2010 “Personal income increased $3.0 billion, or less than 0.1 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI) increased $5.1 billion, or less than 0.1 percent, in June, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Personal consumption expenditures …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and the BP Oil Spill

Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via the US Courts, Panel Seeks to Streamline, Consolidate Oil Spill Litigation : “The work of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) has been in the spotlight recently because of filings related to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The JPML has …

Subjects: Legal Research

2010 Immigration-Related Laws and Resolutions in the States

2010 Immigration-Related Laws and Resolutions in the States (January-June 2010), National Conference of State Legislatures “With no federal immigration reform in the foreseeable future, state legislatures continue to step up to the plate to address the complex and challenging issue of immigration. In the first six months of 2010, every state in regular session considered …

Subjects: E-Government, Legal Research, Legislation

The Federal Government's Responsibilities and Liabilities Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act

The Federal Government’s Responsibilities and Liabilities Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act – Testimony before the House Committee on the Budget, July 27, 2010 “After signaling its intention to terminate a project to build a geologic repository for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountainthe only site where such waste is authorized to be stored under current …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

Census Bureau Reports Number of U.S. Businesses Declines by Nearly 104,000 in 2008

News release: “U.S. businesses with paid employees lost almost 104,000 establishments in 2008, bringing the total number to 7.6 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. However, the total number of people they employed rose to 121 million, with businesses adding approximately 300,000 employees to their payrolls. These findings come from County Business Patterns: 2008, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New HealthCare.gov Site Aims to Teach Americans About Insurance Options

PBS Newshour: “With a contentious midterm election just around the corner, the Obama administration is continuing to tout what health reform will mean for Americans — even turning the president into an online pitchman for the administration’s new health coverage website, healthcare.gov…The site — like some other provisions of the law, such as the high-risk …

Subjects: E-Government

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