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UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) – Women on boards February 2011: “At the current rate of change it will take over 70 years to achieve gender-balanced boardrooms in the UK…The low proportion of women holding directorships suggests British business is not using all of the skills and talents of the workforce effectively. …
“Welcome to the new home for consumer product safety reports. Use our new online form to submit a Report on an unsafe product. Register your business with the new Business Portal to review and respond to Reports. Reports and manufacturer comments during this Soft Launch will be used by CPSC, but they will not be …
News release: “At a hearing today in front of the Senate Commerce Committee on the Magnuson-Stevens Act, Assistant NOAA Administrator for Fisheries Eric Schwaab said that the U.S. is making good progress toward meeting the mandate to end domestic overfishing. We know that nearly $31 billion in sales and as many as 500,000 jobs are …
Department of State: Additional Steps Are Needed to Improve Strategic Planning and Evaluation of Training for State Personnel GAO-11-438T, March 08, 2011 Department of State: Additional Steps Are Needed to Improve Strategic Planning and Evaluation of Training for State Personnel GAO-11-241, January 25, 2011
News release: “For the first time, industry groups and civil liberties interests have come together to advocate a comprehensive, common approach to cybersecurity. That approach is reflected in today’s release of a cybersecurity white paper that rejects government mandates and advocates for a stronger partnership between industry and government. The 20-page white paper is a …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency updated its database that helps Americans understand the health and environmental impacts of electricity generation. EPAs Emissions and Generation Integrated Resource Database (eGRID) and Power Profiler now include data from 2007, an update from 2005. eGRID is a comprehensive database of emissions from almost all electric power generated …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today released the list of top consumer complaints received by the agency in 2010. The list showed that for the 11th year in a row, identity theft was the number one consumer complaint category. Of 1,339,265 complaints received in 2010, 250,854 or 19 percent were related to …
Four Observations about the Federal Budget, March 2011 – CBO Director Doug Elmendorf’s presentation to the National Association for Business Economics: “The gap between spending and revenues is likely to remain very large even after we return to normal economic conditions. Fiscal policy cannot be put on a sustainable path just by eliminating waste and …
CBO Monthly Budget Review – March 2011, Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for January and the Daily Treasury Statements for February Summary: “CBO estimates that the federal government incurred a budget deficit of $642 billion for the first five months of fiscal year 2011, $10 billion less than the shortfall recorded in the same …
