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Connecting to Opportunity: Access to Jobs via Transit in the Washington, D.C. Region, Martha Ross and Nicole Prchal Svajlenka, November 8, 2012. “Findings – An analysis of the public transit systems serving the Washington, D.C. region finds that: Nearly 90 percent of residents in the Washington region live in neighborhoods with access to transit coverage …
“This second edition of Health at a Glance: Europe presents a set of key indicators of health status, determinants of health, health care resources and activities, quality of care, health expenditure and financing in 35 European countries, including the 27 European Union member states, 5 candidate countries and 3 EFTA countries. The selection of indicators …
“Why GAO Did This Study – Of the $79 billion federal agencies budgeted for IT in 2011, $54 billion (about 69 percent) was reported to have been spent on the operations and maintenance of existing legacy IT systemscommonly referred to as steady state investments. Given the size and magnitude of these investments, it is essential …
“Why Nuclear Matters – Nuclear weapons and countering nuclear threats will continue to be a central concern for the United States until we achieve President Obama’s vision of a world without nuclear weapons. The President has identified the dual missions of sustaining a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent and countering the threat from nuclear …
The Economic Value of Citizenship for Immigrants in the United States, by Madeleine Sumption and Sarah Flamm, Migration Policy Institute, Carneige Corporation, September 2012 Citizenship is widely recognized as an important symbol of full membership and participation in society. By naturalizing, immigrants receive a range of rights and prerogatives available only to citizens. Naturalized citizens …
“It was January 2010 and the Senate was locked in a sharp debate about the countrys debt and deficit crisis. Unable to agree on a course of action, some Senators proposed the creation of a fiscal commission that would send Congress a proposal to address the problem with no possibility of amendments. The bill failed …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today released its annual report to Congress on the financial condition of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Mutual Mortgage Insurance (MMI) Fund. In reporting on findings of the independent actuarial study, HUD indicates that while FHA continues to be impacted by losses from mortgages …
Jeff John Roberts: “Google asked an appeals court to throw out a ruling that let the Authors Guild sue on behalf of all writers whose books were scanned without permission. Google argues most authors support the scanning and that the case should be decided on a book-by-book basis.”
