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“Beyond the usual findings and recommendations for improving federal operations, a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is the first to offer a web-based E-Report format to help users navigate content more easily… The new pilot format, which is part of a report on geostationary environmental satellites (GAO-10-799), allows users to quickly …
Milken Institute Report – Ensuring State and Municipal Solvency”>Ensuring State and Municipal Solvency, October 2010 As the recession drags on, states and municipalities find themselves in a deep hole. For the first time since the Great Depression, income, sales and property taxes have declined in unison.1 The cyclical challenges are clear: falling tax receipts, high …
Automatic Generation of Research Trails in Web History, Elin Rønby Pedersen, Shengyin Gu, Peter Jin Hong, Karl Gyllstrom, Proc. IUI 2010. “The web is large and complex, and in the process of navigating it, we often lose our way. Research trailing is a method to organize web contents that we have spent some effort on …
News release: “A new report launched today at the Business for Environment (B4E) Conference in Mexico City by the Low Carbon Leaders Project, an initiative supported by the UN Global Compact and WWF, stresses that transformations in the way that needs are met would produce much greater emissions reductions than incremental improvements in existing technology. …
Gap in Labor Market Now 11.5 Million Jobs, Heidi Shierholz – October 8, 2010- Economic Policy Institute “The underemployment rate, or the U-6 measure of labor underutilization, is a more comprehensive measure of labor market slack than the unemployment rate because it includes not just the officially unemployed, but also jobless workers who have given …
Escaping the Scrapers: “The Internet has given rise to a dizzying array of people-search sites and data brokers that gather and compile public information and social-networking profiles. The sites gather information from public sources such as property records and telephone listings, and other information is harvested by scraping or copying websites where people …
What They Know – interactive graphic: “Marketers are spying on Internet users — observing and remembering people’s clicks, and building and selling detailed dossiers of their activities and interests. The Wall Street Journal’s What They Know series documents the new, cutting-edge uses of this Internet-tracking technology. The Journal analyzed the tracking files installed on people’s …
LLRX.com: FOIA Facts – Mid-Term FOIA Grade for the Obama Administration – Scott A. Hodes provides perspective, and an overall grade, to how the administration has done during the first half of its first term in regard to FOIA.
Summary: “NABE [National Association for Business Economics] panelists trimmed their projections on economic growth; those projections now remain sub-par through year-end. Real GDP will accelerate gradually during 2011, but remain moderate for the whole of next year. This summers slowdown has exposed the economys sensitivity to wealth losses, the unwinding of debt, and the reductions …
2010 Summary of Deposits data is now available: “The Summary of Deposits (SOD) contains deposit data for branches and offices of all FDIC-insured institutions. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) collects deposit balances for commercial and savings banks as of June 30 of each year, and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) collects the same …
Unclassified White House Report to Congress on Afghanistan and Pakistan, addressed to Senator Carl Levin, Chairman, Armed Services Committee, September 30, 2010. The report notes “both positive and negative trends in the implementation of our Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy.” Via FAS: “The report described the progress or lack thereof made this year towards …
Bloomberg: “China, the worlds worst polluter, needs to spend at least 2 percent of gross domestic product a year — 680 billion yuan at 2009 figures — to clean up 30 years of industrial waste, said He Ping, chairman of the Washington-based International Fund for Chinas Environment. Mun Sing Ho, a senior economist at Dale …
