Day archives: January 29th, 2013

New GAO Reports – Broadcasting Board of Governors, DOD Health Care, Interagency Contracting, Military Personnel

Broadcasting Board of Governors – Additional Steps Needed to Address Overlap in International Broadcasting, GAO-13-172, Jan 29, 2013 DOD Health Care – Domestic Health Care for Female Servicemembers, GAO-13-205, Jan 29, 2012 Interagency Contracting – Agency Actions Address Key Management Challenges, but Additional Steps Needed to Ensure Consistent Implementation of Policy Changes, GAO-13-133R, Jan 29, …

Subjects: Government Documents

Census Bureau Releases New Features in American FactFinder

“The U.S. Census Bureau today released new features for American FactFinder, an online data tool that allows users to access a variety of Census Bureau statistics, including decennial, American Community Survey and economic census statistics. The new features include a simplified main page design, the option for a guided search and an enhanced community facts …

Subjects: E-Government

Revenue Grew in Most Service Sectors in 2011, Census Bureau Reports

“The U.S. Census Bureau today released its 2011 Service Annual Survey, which shows 10 of the nation’s 11 service sectors had an increase in revenues for employer firms between 2010 and 2011. The finance and insurance sector continued to be the only sector to show a year-to-year decline in revenue, which edged down by $35.0 …

Subjects: Government Documents

PWC – Dealing with disruption Adapting to survive and thrive

16th Annual Global CEO Survey – Dealing with disruption Adapting to survive and thrive, December 2012. “The global economic outlook is certainly enough to test even the strongest enterprises. The eurozone is still mired in recession and the US economy is forecast to expand by just 2.2% this year. The situation in some of the …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

IMF – Income Mobility and Welfare

Income Mobility and Welfare. Tom Krebs, Pravin Krishna, William Maloney. January 28, 2013 “This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare. Individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, an i.i.d. component representing measurement error or transitory income shocks and an AR(1) …

Subjects: Government Documents

CRS – Can Contractionary Fiscal Policy Be Expansionary?

Can Contractionary Fiscal Policy Be Expansionary? Jane G. Gravelle Senior Specialist in Economic Policy and Thomas L. Hungerford, Specialist in Public Finance. January 11, 2013 “Just as economists generally consider spending cuts to be contractionary in the short run in an underemployed economy, they believe that deficits can be harmful in the long run by …

Subjects: Government Documents

The Increase in Unemployment Since 2007: Is It Cyclical or Structural?

The Increase in Unemployment Since 2007: Is It Cyclical or Structural? Linda Levine, Specialist in Labor Economics. January 24, 2013 “The unemployment rate greatly increased after the onset of the latest recession in December 2007, when it measured 5.0%. The rate peaked at 10.0% in October 2009, four months after the recessions official end in …

Subjects: Government Documents

The Federal Prison Population Buildup: Overview, Policy Changes, Issues, and Options

CRS – The Federal Prison Population Buildup: Overview, Policy Changes, Issues, and Options. Nathan James, Analyst in Crime Policy. January 22, 2013 “Since the early 1980s, there has been a historically unprecedented increase in the federal prison population. Some of the growth is attributable to changes in federal criminal justice policy during the previous three …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Legal Research

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