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News release: “Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 151,000 in October, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Since December 2009, nonfarm payroll employment has risen by 874,000. The number of unemployed persons, at 14.8 million, was little changed in October. The unemployment rate remained at …
News release and findings “The latest NALP [National Association for Law Placement] findings on law firm demographics reveal that the overall representation of women and minority lawyers in law firms declined between 2009 and 2010, likely a casualty of massive lawyer layoffs during the 2008-2009 recession. In 2010, the percentage of women and minority partners …
“This order establishes an open and uniform program for managing information that requires safeguarding or dissemination controls pursuant to and consistent with law, regulations, and Government-wide policies, excluding information that is classified under Executive Order 13526 of December 29, 2009, or the Atomic Energy Act, as amended. At present, executive departments and agencies (agencies) employ …
Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2010 Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, GAO-11-120R, November 04, 2010 Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2010 Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, GAO-11-121R, November 04, 2010 Nuclear Commerce: Governmentwide Strategy Could Help Increase Commercial Benefits from U.S. Nuclear Cooperation Agreements with Other Countries, GAO-11-36, November 04, 2010
Wholesale Market Data Nov 4, 2010: This site contains spreadsheets with wholesale electricity price data from ICE (IntercontinentalExchange) through October 29, 2010 (latest web site update: November 4, 2010). The files contain peak prices, volumes, and the number of transactions at six electricity trading hubs covering most regions of the United States.”
News release: “Most developing countries made dramatic yet often underestimated progress in health, education and basic living standards in recent decades, with many of the poorest countries posting the greatest gains, reveals a detailed new analysis of long-term Human Development Index (HDI) trends in the 2010 Human Development Report, released here today. Yet patterns of …
“Zonability is an application designed to make zoning information useful for property owners, renters, sellers, buyers, remodelers, investors, and neighborhood watchdog groups. We make this information useful by providing real world context and easy to use interfaces…Zoning is embedded in a property’s price tag. For the savvy buyer, they know how to mine this value …
Follow up to previous postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via FRONTLINE – The Spill: “A joint investigation by FRONTLINE and ProPublica into the trail of problems — deadly accidents, disastrous spills, countless safety violations — which long troubled the oil giant, BP. Could the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have been prevented?”
CDC – The Health Communicator’s Social Media Toolkit: “In the last several years, the use of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and other social media tools to disseminate health messages has grown significantly, and continues to trend upward. Using social media tools has become an effective way to expand reach, foster engagement, and increase access to credible, …
NRDC Issue Paper, November 2010 – Fighting Oil Addiction, Ranking States Gasoline Price Vulnerability and Solutions for Change “The purpose of this report is to update NRDCs 2007, 2008, and 2009 research identifying the states that are most vulnerable to spikes in gasoline pricesand those states that are doing the most to break their addiction …
“As an education and policy advocacy organization dedicated to reducing the threats posed by the worlds most dangerous weapons, the Arms Control Association believes it is essential that states meet their nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament standards and objectives and that the public has the information and tools necessary to help hold governments accountable. This report …
“Some occupations are more likely than others to have employment concentrated in specific areas. In 2009, 89 percent of political scientists worked in just a few areasincluding more than two-thirds in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Occupational concentration often corresponds to population. For example, people who live and work in densely populated areas have a …
