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33% of Seafood Mislabeled in Grocery Stores, Restaurants & Sushi Venues, February 21, 2013 “Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the worlds oceans, uncovered widespread seafood fraud across the United States, according to a new report released today. In one of the largest seafood fraud investigations in the world to date, …
Facility Security – Greater Outreach by DHS on Standards and Management Practices Could Benefit Federal Agencies, GAO-13-222, Jan 24, 2013 Facility Security – Results of GAO’s Survey on the Physical Security of Federal Facilities (GAO-13-223SP, January 2013), an E-supplement to GAO-13-222 GAO-13-223SP, Jan 24, 2013 Information Security – Actions Needed by Census Bureau to Address …
Financial Crisis A Review of the Economics and Legal Toolbox by Yan Liu; Christoph Rosenberg, February 20, 2013 “The private non-financial sector in Europe is facing increased challenges in meeting its debt servicing obligation. In response, governments are revisiting legal tools andin some casesinstitutional arrangements to deal with over-indebtedness. For households, where the problem in …
“This working paper examines the characteristics of vacant units categorized as being vacant for “other” reasons (which means they do not fit into the “for rent,” “for sale,” “rented or sold but not yet occupied,” “occasional use” or “usual residence elsewhere” categories). The statistics were collected in the Current Population Survey/Housing Vacancy Survey in 2000, …
“These statistics provide vacancy rates, homeownership rates and characteristics of units available for occupancy for the U.S., regions, states and the 75 largest metropolitan statistical areas. Data for all geographies are available both quarterly and annually. Homeownership rates are also tabulated by age of householder for the U.S. and regions and by race and ethnicity …
How White & Case tamed its information overload, By Oz Benamram. See also Communicating Professionally Using Outlook, by Oz Benamram, last updated: October 2012.
News release: “Big Data” and other analytical tools have great potential to make governments more efficient and improve citizens lives, particularly in health and public safety sectors. A new study [and the related Infographic] released by the TechAmerica Foundation and commissioned by SAP AG, revealed that 87 percent of federal IT officials and 75 percent …
Federal Reserve: Unconventional Monetary Policy Options, Marc Labonte, Coordinator of Division Research and Specialist, February 19, 2013 “The Great Recession and the ensuing weak recovery have led the Federal Reserve (Fed) to reevaluate its monetary policy strategy. Since December 2008, overnight interest rates have been near zero; at this zero bound, they cannot be lowered further …
“This documentation describes methods to use the Social Media Registry API to access the contents of the Social Media Registry. The Social Media Registry is an official source of information about social media accounts that represent official U.S. federal government agencies, elected officials, or members of the Presidents Cabinet. If you work for the federal …
The Impacts of Sequestration, Committee on Appropriations See also OMB Report Pursuant to the Sequestration Transparency Act – “The Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012 (STA) (P.L. 112-155) requires the President to submit to Congress a report on the potential sequestration triggered by the failure of the reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion, as required by …
