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Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Summary, March 2011 “Unemployment rates were lower in March than a year earlier in 317 of the 372 metropolitan areas, higher in 44 areas, and unchanged in 11 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Fourteen areas recorded jobless rates of at least 15.0 percent, while eight areas …
News release: “In an effort to combat childhood obesity the most serious health crisis facing todays youth a working group of four federal agencies today released for public comment a set of Preliminary Proposed Nutrition Principles to Guide Industry Self-Regulatory Efforts that can be used by industry as a guide for marketing food …
FOIAs Related to Japan’s Emergency: “To avoid duplication of effort and delays in response times, please take note of the following requests that have already been submitted to the NRC. Responses to these FOIA requests will be made publicly available as soon as possible.”
Women in National Parliaments: “The data in the tables below has been compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union on the basis of information provided by National Parliaments by 31 March 2011. The percentages do not take into account the case of parliaments for which no data was available at that date. Comparative data on the percentage …
Jason Miller, Executive Editor, Federal News Radio: “The General Services Administration is about to give the Obama administration’s policy that requires agencies to use cloud computing a big boost. GSA plans on releasing a request for proposals May 10 for e-mail-as-a-service that could be worth $2.5 billion. Vivek Kundra, the federal chief information officer, said …
The Orderly Liquidation of Lehman Brothers Holdings under the Dodd-Frank Act, April 18, 2011 “The report examines how the FDIC could have structured an orderly resolution of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. under the orderly liquidation authority of Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act had that law been in effect …
BLS Mobile Service: “In our never-ending quest to provide the American public with the latest labor economics and statistics data no matter where they are, we are introducing a mobile version of the BLS homepage. The mobile homepage is designed to give our visitors a quick view of the latest BLS statistical products such as …
Economic Analysis of the Effects of the Federal Reserve Boards Proposed Debit Card Interchange Fee Regulations on Consumers and Small Businesses, By David S. Evans, Robert E. Litan, Richard Schmalensee, February 22, 2011 “This paper examines the impact of the reductions in interchange fees proposed by the the Federal Reserve Board on consumers and small …
Fact sheet: “The Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously to propose rules further defining the terms swap, security-based swap, and security-based swap agreement. The Commission also proposed rules regarding mixed swaps and books and records for security-based swap agreements. The rules were proposed jointly with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and stem from the …
“The Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index measures Americans’ perceptions on three important variables: the state of the economy, personal finances and whether it’s a good time to buy needed goods or services. A new index reading is generated every week, making it a timely sentiment gauge. The responses are broken down by participants’ sex, age, income …
