Monthly archives: September, 2010

Census Bureau Reports State and Local Government Employment Remains at 16.6 Million

News release: “The nation’s 89,526 state and local governments employed 16.6 million full-time equivalent employees in 2009, statistically unchanged from 2008, according to government employment data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Part-time employees numbered 4.7 million, not statistically different from 2008. Local governments accounted for 12.2 million full-time equivalent employees, and state governments had …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Survey of Credit Underwriting Practices 2010

Survey of Credit Underwriting Practices 2010, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, August 2010 “The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) conducted its 16th annual underwriting survey to identify trends in lending standards and credit risk for the most common types of commercial and retail credit offered by national banks. The survey …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Fed Chairman Testifies on Causes of the Recent Financial and Economic Crisis

Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, Causes of the Recent Financial and Economic Crisis Before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, hearing, Too Big to Fail: Expectations and Impact of Extraordinary Government Intervention and the role of Systemic Risk in the Financial Crisis, Washington, D.C., September 2, 2010 “If the crisis has a single lesson, it is that …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

SEC Adopts Temporary Rule Requiring Municipal Advisors to Register With Agency

News release:” The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has adopted a temporary rule requiring municipal advisors to register with the SEC by October 1, a deadline established by the newly-enacted Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Municipal advisors provide advice to state and local governments and other borrowers involved in …

Subjects: E-Government

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Preliminary Staff Report Too-Big-to-Fail Financial Institutions

Preliminary Staff Report, Governmental Rescues of ‘Too-Big-To-Fail’ Financial Institutions, August 31, 2010 “The purpose of this preliminary staff report is to describe governmental rescues of financial institutions during the decades leading up to the financial crisis and during the crisis itself. Section I provides an executive summary of the report. Section II describes how federal …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

EPIC Challenge to Airport Body Scanner Program Moves Forward in Federal Court

Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, via EPIC: “The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has set a briefing schedule for EPIC v. DHS, No. 10-1157, EPIC’s challenge to the airport body scanner program. EPIC has alleged that that the Department …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Legal Research, Privacy

Asylum Denial Rate Reaches All Time Low: FY 2010 Results, a Twenty-Five Year Perspective

“Very timely Justice Department data show that Immigration Judges are declining substantially fewer requests for asylum. Denial rates have reached the lowest level in the last quarter of a century according to a new analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). Twenty five years ago, in FY 1986, almost nine out of ten (89%) …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

Birthright Citizenship in the United States A Global Comparison

Birthright Citizenship in the United States, A Global Comparison By Jon Feere, Legal Policy Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies “Every year, 300,000 to 400,000 children are born to illegal immigrants in the United States. Despite the foreign citizenship and illegal status of the parent, the executive branch of the U.S. government automatically recognizes …

Subjects: Government Documents

FEMA, the National Weather Service and other agencies are providing updates, advice and other disaster-management information on their websites

InformationWeek: “Agencies that deal with disaster-management are preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Earl, as the U.S. braces for another storm season. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has updated the homepage of its website with a Hurricane Earl Response tab, which includes a link to the National Weather Service’s hurricane watches and warnings map. FEMA …

Subjects: E-Government

IMF: Fiscal Space

Fiscal Space, Prepared by Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh, Jun I. Kim, and Mahvash S. Qureshi, September 1, 2010, IMF Staff Position Note “The fiscal challenges facing advanced economies are unprecedented, and bring to the fore questions about how to assess fiscal sustainability. Intertemporal solvencythe notion that governments eventually repay their debtsrequires only that …

Subjects: Government Documents

Executive Excess 2010: CEO Pay and the Great Recession

Executive Excess 2010: CEO Pay and the Great Recession, by Sarah Anderson, Chuck Collins, Sam Pizzigati, Kevin Shih: “The 17th annual executive compensation survey looks at how CEOs laid off thousands while raking in millions.” “Corporate executives, in reality, are not suffering at all. Their pay, to be sure, dipped on average in 2009 from …

Subjects: Government Documents

IMF: Long-Term Trends in Public Finances in the G-7 Economies

Long-Term Trends in Public Finances in the G-7 Economies, IMF Staff Position Note, September 1, 2010 SPN/10/13, Carlo Cottarelli and Andrea Schaechter “Todays record public debt levels in most advanced economies are not only a direct fall-out from the global crisis. Public debt had ratcheted up over many decades before, when it had been used, …

Subjects: Government Documents

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