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Constitutional Authority Statements in Congress, Hanah M. Volokh, Emory University School of Law – Florida Law Review, Forthcoming “At the opening of the 112th Congress in January of 2011, the House of Representatives created a new rule that requires each bill or resolution introduced in the House to include a constitutional authority statement. This statement …
Follow up to related postings on tuberculosis, via the CDC, Trends in Tuberculosis – United States, 2010, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), March 25, 2012 “In 2010, a total of 11,181 tuberculosis (TB) cases were reported in the United States, for a rate of 3.6 cases per 100,000 population, which was a decline of …
Big Philanthropy’s Role in Higher Education, by Stanley N. Katz “According to a recent Chronicle study, America’s top 50 donors gave a total of $10.4-billion in 2011, rebounding from the $3.3-billion of the previous year, with its recession worries. Those numbers reflect the continued growth in the number of private philanthropic foundations in this country …
Via LLRX.com – Fiction is harder than fact, but the Web helps – Nicholas Pengelley’s wide ranging global career spans law librarian, lawyer, law professor and analyst for a major international NGO. Now as the author of a new political thriller he explains why writing fiction is much harder to write than fact, based on …
EPIC: Under revised guidelines [unclassified] for the National Counterterrorism Center, the intelligence agency officials will be able to profile and track American citizens, suspected of no crime, for up to five years. The change represents a dramatic expansion of government surveillance and appears to violate the Privacy Act of 1974, which limits data exchanges across …
The Internal Revenue Service Is Not in Compliance With All Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act Requirements, March 2, 2012 Reference Number: 2012-40-028 “The methodology the IRS uses to estimate the EITC [Earned Income Tax Credit] improper payment rate results in a reasonable estimate of EITC overclaims. However, the IRS did not comply with all …
The Risk of Insider Fraud U.S. Study of IT and Business Practitioners “According to Ponemon Institute research, insider negligence and maliciousness can be one of the major causes of a costly and reputation damaging data breach. As reported in the Ponemon Institutes most recent Cost of Data Breach study, malicious insiders cause 31 percent of …
Foundation Funding for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene – Foundation Center’s WASHfunders.org “In recent years, the number of U.S. charitable foundations awarding grants for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) projects around the world has more than tripled. A new research brief by the Foundation Center…finds that between 2003 and 2010 this growth in the number of …
Current Spending Topics: How do U.S. expenditures compare with those of other countries? “In Japan, consumers spent more than 17 percent of every yen on groceries, more than twice the 8.3 percent of every dollar that Americans spent. In the United States, households spent almost 7 cents of every dollar on health care, compared with …
News release: “The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) issued a Supplement to the Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment guidance, issued in October 2005. The purpose of the supplement is to reinforce the risk-management framework described in the original guidance and update the FFIEC member agencies’ supervisory expectations regarding customer authentication, layered security, and …
