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News release: “The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported today in Prisoners in 2010 that the number of offenders under adult correctional supervision in the U.S. declined 1.3 percent in 2010, the second consecutive year of decline since BJS began reporting on this population in 1980. At yearend 2010, about 7.1 million people, or 1 …
Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization – G.17, December 15, 2011 “Industrial production decreased 0.2 percent in November after having advanced 0.7 percent in October. Factory output moved down 0.4 percent in November; excluding a drop of 3.4 percent in the output of motor vehicles and parts, manufacturing production declined 0.2 percent. Mining production edged up …
Changes in Health Insurance Coverage in the Great Recession, 2007-2010. Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured “This issue brief examines changes in health insurance coverage over the last decade, with a focus on how changes in the economy, particularly during the “Great Recession” of 2007 to 2009, have affected coverage and the number of …
The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS): “On average, 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States, based on a survey conducted in 2010. Over the course of a year, that equals more than 12 million women and men. Those numbers …
How SOPA Affects Students, Educators, and Libraries: “…Libraries represent another educational group that could face fallout from SOPA. The Library Copyright Alliance, a group whose members include the American Library Association and two other major library organizations, has also written a letter to the House of Representatives raising major issues with the bill. Alarmingly, the …
Follow up to previous postings on the Deepwater Horizon Spill, via National Academies Press – Macondo Well-Deepwater Horizon Blowout: Lessons for Offshore Drilling Safety “This report examines the causes of the blowout of the Macondo well that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010 and provides a series of recommendations, for both …
Foster Children: HHS Guidance Could Help States Improve Oversight of Psychotropic Prescriptions, GAO-12-201, Dec 14, 2011 Nuclear Nonproliferation – Action Needed to Address NNSA’s Program Management and Coordination Challenges, GAO-12-71, Dec 14, 2011 Small Business Lending Fund – Additional Actions Needed to Improve Transparency and Accountability, GAO-12-183, Dec 14, 2011
News release: “Results released today [12/14/11] by the National Center for Health Statistics demonstrate that the extension of dependent coverage up to age 26 has increased the number of young adults with health insurance, by even more than prior analyses had suggested.[1] This policy, enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act, took effect for …
Jeff Lamicela: “The latest available data from the Justice Department show that federal health care fraud prosecutions reached an historic high last year. During the twelve months of fiscal year 2011, the government reported 1,235 new health care fraud prosecutions – the largest number reported since separate tracking of this offense began twenty years ago. …
Subsidizing Employment Opportunities for Low-Income Families – A Review of State Employment Programs Created Through the TANF Emergency Fund. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) Report 2011-38. December 2011. Administration for Children and Families, Health and Human Services. Key Findings: “While states and localities often had less than one year to create or expand …
