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News release: “Nonfarm payroll employment edged down (-95,000) in September, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Government employment declined (-159,000), reflecting both a drop in the number of temporary jobs for Census 2010 and job losses in local government. Private-sector payroll employment continued to …
Follow up to previous postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this new CRS report: The 2010 Oil Spill: Natural Resource Damage Assessment Under the Oil Pollution Act “The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill leaked an estimated 4.1 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, damaging the waters, shores, and marshes, and the …
News release: “Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today released the report of the committees yearlong inquiry into the role and oversight of the Department of Defenses private security contractors in Afghanistan. The Committee approved the report on Sept. 28, 2010. The committees investigation uncovered a significant amount of evidence that …
Inequality and the Dynamics of Public Opinion, Nathan J. Kelly and Peter K. Enns, February 18, 2010 “This article assesses the influence of income inequality on the publics policy mood. Recent work has produced divergent perspectives on the relationship between inequality, public opinion, and government redistribution. One group of scholars suggests that unequal representation of …
Prevalence of Doctor-Diagnosed Arthritis and Arthritis-Attributable Activity Limitation — United States, 2007–2009, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), October 8, 2010 / 59(39);1261-1265 “Arthritis is a large and growing public health problem in the United States (1), resulting in costs of $128 billion annually, and continues to be the most common cause of disability (2). …
News release: “With cases of bed bug infestations increasing, many people are turning to pesticides as a means of ridding their homes of the pest. To help people find an appropriate pesticide for use on bed bugs, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has created a new database listing all pesticides registered for this purpose. …
News release: “The world economy, led by emerging market and developing countries, is forecast to grow by 4.8 percent in 2010 before falling back to 4.2 percent next year, but a sharper global slowdown is unlikely, the IMF says in its latest forecast. With the world still trying to bounce back from the global economic …
News release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today unveiled a report outlining the agencys plans to advance regulatory science through its Regulatory Science Initiative Regulatory science is the science of developing new tools, standards and approaches for assessing the safety, efficacy, quality and performance of FDA-regulated products. The report provides examples of current FDA …
“The National Oil Spill Commission today is releasing four new draft working papers prepared by its staff. Commission staff prepares draft working papers to inform the Commissioners on-going examination of the root causes of the Gulf spill and options to guard against and mitigate the impacts of future spills. The Commissioners decisions regarding these matters …
“EPIC and 14 other privacy and consumer protection groups (including the American Library Association) sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt about Google’s revised privacy policy. Under this new policy, twelve specific Google privacy policies will be replaced by a single policy that will enable greater data sharing within the corporation. EPIC previously raised …
“Preliminary data from the National Science Foundation’s 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) provide a map of the incidence of innovation by businesses located in the United States. These data are based on respondents to the survey and represent an estimated 1.5 million for-profit companies, publicly or privately held, with 5 or more employees, …
Cyberspace Policy: Executive Branch Is Making Progress Implementing 2009 Policy Review Recommendations, but Sustained Leadership Is Needed, GAO-11-24, October 06, 2010 Information Technology: Opportunities Exist to Improve Management of DOD’s Electronic Health Record Initiative, GAO-11-50, October 06, 2010 Highlights of a Forum: Participant-Identified Leading Practices That Could Increase the Employment of Individuals with Disabilities in …
