Day archives: September 12th, 2011

Estimated Impact of Automatic Budget Enforcement Procedures Specified in the Budget Control Act September 12, 2011

Estimated Impact of Automatic Budget Enforcement Procedures Specified in the Budget Control Act, September 12, 2011 “The Budget Control Act of 2011 (enacted on August 2 as Public Law 112-25) made several changes to federal programs and established budget enforcement mechanismsincluding caps on future discretionary appropriationsthat were estimated to reduce federal budget deficits by a …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legislation

American Jobs Act of 2011

President Obama’s message to Congress, and the text of American Jobs Act of 2011 The American people understand that the economic crisis and the deep recession were not created overnight and will not be solved overnight. The economic security of the middle class has been under attack for decades. That is why I believe we …

Subjects: Congress, Legislation

European Southern Observatory: Fifty New Exoplanets Discovered by HARPS

Richest haul of planets so far includes 16 new super-Earths: “Astronomers using ESOs world-leading exoplanet hunter HARPS have today announced a rich haul of more than 50 new exoplanets, including 16 super-Earths, one of which orbits at the edge of the habitable zone of its star. By studying the properties of all the HARPS planets …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Analysis of Census Data: 184 counties belong to 'majority-minority' club

BizJournals: “A total of 184 U.S. counties and independent cities now have majority-minority populations, according to an On Numbers breakdown of the latest U.S. Census Bureau data…The majority-minority list includes 15 counties with populations of more than 500,000. The largest are Kings and Queens County, N.Y. (better known as the New York City boroughs of …

Subjects: Government Documents

USGS – Examining Our Past: Historical Map Collection Now Online

News release: “Nearly 90,000 high resolution scans of the more than 200,000 historical USGS topographic maps, some dating as far back as 1884, are now available online. The Historical Topographic Map Collection includes published U.S. maps of all scales and editions, and are offered as a georeferenced digital download or as a scanned print from …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Education, Demand, and Unemployment in Metropolitan America

Education, Demand, and Unemployment in Metropolitan America – Jonathan Rothwell and Alan Berube “Inadequate demand and inadequate education, relative to available occupations, are both hampering economic recovery in U.S. metropolitan areas. With a still weakened private sector, strategic public investment and regional economic diversification can help address the first problem. Yet even when the economy …

Subjects: Government Documents

Independent Commission on Banking – Final Report Recommendations

Independent Commission on Banking – Final Report Recommendations, September 2011 [via Richard McKinney] “The recommendations in this report aim to create a more stable and competitive basis for UK banking in the longer term. That means much more than greater resilience against future financial crises and removing risks from banks to the public finances. It …

Subjects: Government Documents

New GAO Reports: Interagency Contracting, Securing the Southwest Land Border

Interagency Contracting: Improvements Needed in Setting Fee Rates for Selected Programs, GAO-11-784, September 9, 2011 Observations on the Costs and Benefits of an Increased Department of Defense Role in Helping to Secure the Southwest Land Border. GAO-11-856R, September 12, 2011

Subjects: Government Documents

New website – Business without Borders

“Business without Borders [sponsored by HSBC] is a unique resource in the United States an online platform for businesses expanding beyond the U.S. borders. Targeted content from Business without Borders, and content partners The Wall Street Journal, Economist Intelligence Unit, and video content from Bloomberg Master Class, address the issues and needs of growing …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

LexisNexis® Launches Open Alliance Program for HPCC Systems, Enterprise-Proven, Open Source Alternative to Hadoop

News release: “LexisNexis® Risk Solutions today unveiled the HPCC Systems Alliance Program, which is a collaboration of partners to stimulate innovation and accelerate market adoption of the newly open sourced HPCC Systems, an enterprise-proven, open source solution to help large organizations process Big Data. Built on a high performing computer cluster technology, HPCC Systems is …

Subjects: Intellectual Property, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

Fact Sheet: Combating the Financing of Terrorism, Disrupting Terrorism at its Core

Treasury news release, 9/8/2011: “Terrorist organizations rely on financing and support networks to sustain operations and launch attacks. The U.S. Department of the Treasurys Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) has developed a sophisticated and comprehensive approach including intelligence analysis, sanctions administration and enforcement, financial regulatory action, policy expertise, and outreach to the …

Subjects: Government Documents

Fiscal Policy Institute: State of Working New York 2011

“A new report released by the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) shows that two years into the recovery from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, 1.4 million, or one in every seven, New York workers is unemployed, under-employed or has given up looking for work. Long-term unemployment is at record levels. Half of the unemployed have been …

Subjects: Government Documents

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