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Follow up to previous postings on perchlorate and drinking water contamination, from EPA today: “the agencys decision to move forward with the development of a regulation for perchlorate to protect Americans from any potential health impacts, while also continuing to take steps to ensure the quality of the water they drink. The decision to undertake …
“The State of Working America has been the Economic Policy Institutes flagship publication since 1988. The comprehensive economic data that has in the past been in book form is now available on this Web site for the first time in a searchable and highly user-friendly format. The data will be more accessible than ever before …
Audit Report, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Monitoring of Power Grid Cyber Security, DOE/IG-0846, January 2011 “Despite their importance to protecting the power grid, the CIP [Critical Infrastructure Protection] standards did not include a number of security controls commonly recommended for government and industry systems, including both administrative and mission-related systems. For instance, the standards did …
Future Mobility in Maryland: Meeting the State’s Need for Safe and Efficient Mobility (February 2011): “Without a substantial boost in transportation funding, Maryland will be unable to complete numerous projects to improve the condition and expand the capacity of roads, bridges, highways and public transit, hampering the states ability to improve mobility and to enhance …
News release: “Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the establishment of a new policy to ensure and maintain the integrity of scientific and scholarly activities used in Departmental decision making. The policy follows on the Memorandum to the Heads of Departments and Agencies on Scientific Integrity issued in December and includes the designation …
“A detailed analysis of Justice Department and other records has found that criminal enforcement under President Obama is significantly different than it was during the last two years of the Bush Administration. One key finding is that with the increasing focus on immigration, other kinds of felony prosecutions — particularly in those districts not on …
Petroleum Marketing Monthly Feb 1, 2011: “Refiner acquisition costs for crude oil (the cost of crude oil, including transportation charges and other fees) remained on an upward path in November. The monthly average refiner acquisition cost for domestic crude oil rose $3.17 (4.0 percent), to $82.05 per barrel, while the average cost of imported …
Electronic Health Records: DOD and VA Should Remove Barriers and Improve Efforts to Meet Their Common System Needs, GAO-11-265, February 02, 2011 Child Support Enforcement: Departures from Long-term Trends in Sources of Collections and Caseloads Reflect Recent Economic Conditions, GAO-11-196, January 14, 2011
Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2010 – by Jeffrey S. Passel, Senior Demographer, Pew Hispanic Center, and D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer, Pew Research Center “As of March 2010, 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the United States, virtually unchanged from a year earlier, according to new estimates from the Pew Hispanic Center, …
News release: “First-year college students’ self-ratings of their emotional health dropped to record low levels in 2010, according to the CIRP Freshman Survey, UCLA’s annual survey of the nation’s entering students at four-year colleges and universities. The survey, part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), is administered nationally by the Higher Education Research Institute …
News release: “Despite decades of efforts to reform education, and billions of dollars of expenditures, the harsh reality is that America is still failing to prepare millions of its young people to lead successful lives as adults. Evidence of this failure is everywhere: in the dropout epidemic that plagues our high schools and colleges; in …
