Monthly archives: September, 2010

New GAO Reports: AIDS Relief, Recovery Act, Global Positioning System, State and Local Government Pension Plans, NIH, Sudan Divestment

President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: Efforts to Align Programs with Partner Countries’ HIV/AIDS Strategies and Promote Partner Country Ownership, GAO-10-836, September 20, 2010 Recovery Act: Opportunities to Improve Management and Strengthen Accountability over States’ and Localities’ Uses of Funds, GAO-10-999, September 20, 2010 Recovery Act: Survey of State Housing Finance Agencies’ Use of the …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Global Governance 2025

Global Governance 2025, September 2010: “This report analyzes the gap between current international governance institutions, organizations and norms and the demands for global governance likely to be posed by long-term strategic challenges over the next 15 years. The report is the product of research and analysis by the National Intelligence Council and European Unions Institute …

Subjects: Government Documents

Since the Start of the Great Recession, More Children Raised by Grandparents

Since the Start of the Great Recession, More Children Raised by Grandparents, by Gretchen Livingston and Kim Parker, Pew Research Center “About four-in-ten (41%) of those children who live with a grandparent (or grandparents) are also being raised primarily by that grandparent, according to the census data. This figure — 2.9 million children2 — rose …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

EIA Monthly Flash Estimate

Monthly Flash Estimate Sep 20, 2010: “The September issue of the Monthly Flash Estimate (MFE) of Electric Power Data is available on EIA’s Electricity page. This issue provides early highlights of July 2010 electricity data. In July 2010, total electric power generation in the United States increased 9.2 percent compared to July 2009. Over …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New words, senses, and phrases have been added to the New Oxford American Dictionary

Oxford University Press Blog: New words, new phrases, old words – new senses – with some of which you will be familiar in light of the ongoing financial crisis, riding public transport, using social media, and having kids.

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Roosevelt Institute: The Stagnating Labor Market

The Stagnating Labor Market, Arjun Jayadev, Mike Konczal | The Roosevelt Institute, September 19, 2010 “But ever since the financial crisis of 2008 and the following recession the labor market has broken down. Though tempered by the fiscal and monetary stimulus programs of the government, the waves of unemployment and exits from the labor force …

Subjects: Government Documents

Taxing Caloric Sweetened Beverages To Curb Obesity

Taxing Caloric Sweetened Beverages To Curb Obesity, Travis A. Smith, Biing-Hwan Lin, Rosanna Mentzer Morrison, September 2010 “Obesity among the U.S. population has increased markedly over the past three decades. Two-thirds of U.S. adults are now either overweight or obese, and growing numbers of children are overweight as well. Studies by nutritionists and epidemiologists suggest …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security: Privacy and the Smart Grid

Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security: Vol. 2, Privacy and the Smart Grid. The Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Cyber Security Working Group, August 2010 “The Smart Grid brings with it many new data collection, communication, and information sharing capabilities related to energy usage, and these technologies in turn introduce concerns about privacy. Privacy relates …

Subjects: Censorship, E-Government, Government Documents, Privacy

Anniversary Marks Creation of U.S. Federal Court System

News release: “September 24 marks the anniversary of a groundbreaking American invention a federal court system separate from the individual state courts. The Judiciary Act of 1789 was one of the first pieces of legislation enacted by the newly formed U.S. Congress. The law created a dual court system federal and state …

Subjects: Courts, Legal Research

New on LLRX.com: Open Source Tools for the Day-to-Day

Via LLRX.com – Open Source Tools for the Day-to-Day: Nicole C. Engard reviews several open source tools she recommends not only for their usability and reliability, but also for the cost to value ratio when compared to mainstream applications outside our ever narrowing budget requirements.

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Report – Small Business Lending Declines, Hiring Flat

News release: “As the Senate prepares to consider small business jobs legislation this week, a new report by the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) shows that lending to small businesses has declined in 2010, small business hiring remains flat and the smallest firms continue to reduce hiring…The report, entitled Small Business Employment: Bank Lending …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

USDA: Rural America at a Glance, 2010 Edition

Rural America at a Glance, 2010 Edition, Lorin Kusmin and Thomas Hertz, editors. Economic Information Bulletin No. (EIB-68) 6 pp, September 2010 “Rural America At A Glance, 2010 Edition highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The 2010 …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

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