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“The Law Library of Congress is pleased to announce a new homepage at http://loc.gov/law/. It is less text heavy, easier to scan, and includes a highlights carousel. Two of the most used products, Congress.gov and the Guide to Law Online, are prominently displayed. The @LawLibCongress Twitter stream is now on the homepage in the right …
“Although much of the analysis that CBO undertakes is very technical in nature, the agency works hard to explain the basis for its findings so that Members of Congress, their staff, and outside analysts can understand the results and question the methods used. To that end, CBO just released a report, How the Supply of …
Homeland Defense – DOD Needs to Address Gaps in Homeland Defense and Civil Support Guidance – GAO-13-128, Oct 24, 2012 Critical Infrastructure Protection – An Implementation Strategy Could Advance DHS’s Coordination of Resilience Efforts across Ports and Other Infrastructure, GAO-13-11, Oct 25, 2012
Medicaid Today – Preparing for Tomorrow – A Look at State Medicaid Program Spending, Enrollment and Policy Trends – Results from a 50-State Medicaid Budget Survey for State Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013. October 25, 2012 “After the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, state policy makers were finally beginning to see signs of …
“The U.S. Census Bureau released the latest findings from the American Community Survey, the primary source of small-area estimates available on a wide range of important statistics about people and housing for every community across the country and in Puerto Rico. The estimates released today cover a three-year period from 2009 to 2011 and are …
Neylon C (2012) More Than Just Access: Delivering on a Network-Enabled Literature. PLoS Biol 10(10): e1001417. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001417 “By any measure it has been a huge year for the open-access movement. At the beginning of the year, it looked possible that the public access policy of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) might be rolled …
National Association of Women Lawyers and the NAWL Foundation: “Also, continuing a trend we have noted in previous Survey Reports, the structure of law firms has grown more complex. The typical AmLaw 200 firm is now a two-tier partnership with many different categories of lawyer in a leveraged structure: 151 equity partners (barely 15% women), …
Review of Estimates of the Frisch Elasticity of Labor Supply, Felix Reichling and Charles Whalen, Ocotber 2012 “Among the models that CBO uses to analyze the economic effects of changes in federal fiscal policy is a life-cycle growth model. That model requires an estimate of the responsiveness of the supply of labor to a one-time …
Kurt Schuler: “The transcripts of the Bretton Woods conference were never meant to be published, but we have them. Today the CFS releases The Bretton Woods Transcripts, an e-book edited by me and Andrew Rosenberg. It contains verbatim proceedings of many meetings from the 1944 Bretton Woods conference, which established the IMF and World Bank …
