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New GAO Reports: Defense Critical Infrastructure, Private Pensions, TSA Air Cargo Screening Exemptions Report

Defense Critical Infrastructure: Adherence to Guidance Would Improve DOD’s Approach to Identifying and Assuring the Availability of Critical Transportation Assets, GAO-08-851, August 15, 2008 Defense Acquisitions: Department of Defense Needs Framework for Balancing Investments in Tactical Radios, GAO-08-877, August 15, 2008 Private Pensions: Fulfilling Fiduciary Obligations Can Present Challenges for 401(k) Plan Sponsors, GAO-08-774, July …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Report: Immigration Prosecution Surge Fueled by Border Enforcement

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: “The latest available data from the Justice Department show that new prosecutions by Customs and Border Protection during the first eight months of FY 2008 have soared. If CBP’s prosecutions continue at the same pace for the rest of the year, the FY2008 total will be almost twice what it was …

Subjects: Government Documents

Kaiser Foundation: Five Basic Facts on the Uninsured

Five Basic Facts on the Uninsured, August 2008: “The number of uninsured is continuing to increase and reversing that trend has become a focus of policy efforts at the state and national levels. This brief provides basic facts that explain why 47 million people in the U.S. lack health insurance and how this affects their …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

New Orleans Three Years After the Storm: The Second Kaiser Post-Katrina Survey, 2008

“The Kaiser Family Foundation released the results of its second major survey tracking the views and experiences of New Orleans residents amid the ongoing challenges facing the community nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina hit on August 29, 2005. Designed and analyzed by Kaiser researchers, the comprehensive survey offers an in-depth look at the struggles …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

DOJ Announces Final Guidelines for Sex Offender Registration and Notification

“The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced the final guidelines for Title I of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). The Guidelines provide necessary tools for states, the District of Columbia, territories, and certain federally recognized Indian tribes to incorporate SORNA minimum …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

Federal Highway Administration Releases June 2008 Traffic Volume Trends

News release: “New data released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation show that, since last November, Americans have driven 53.2 billion miles less than they did over the same period a year earlier topping the 1970s’ total decline of 49.3 billion miles. Traffic Volume Trends reports, June 2008

Subjects: Government Documents

Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the Washington-Baltimore, D.C.-Md.-Va.-W.Va. Metropolitan Statistical Area for July 2008

Washington-Baltimore Consumer Price Index: July 2008 – “Retail prices in the Washington-Baltimore area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), rose 1.7 percent from May to July, following a 1.1-percent increase in the previous two-month period, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Sheila …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Report: Accuracy of Title II Disability Insurance Benefits Processed with Workers' Compensation Settlements

Inspector General Social Security Administration: Accuracy of Title II Disability Insurance Benefits Processed with Workers’ Compensation Settlements, A-04-07-17059, 08/13/08

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New GAO Reports: Drug Control, TSA Has Developed a Risk-Based Covert Testing Program

Drug Control: Cooperation with Many Major Drug Transit Countries Has Improved, but Better Performance Reporting and Sustainability Plans Are Needed, GAO-08-784, July 15, 2008 – “Each year, criminal organizations transport hundreds of tons of illegal drugs from South America to the United States through a 6 million square mile “transit zone” including Central America, the …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Census Bureau: An Older and More Diverse Nation by Midcentury

News release: “The nation will be more racially and ethnically diverse, as well as much older, by midcentury, according to projections released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Minorities, now roughly one-third of the U.S. population, are expected to become the majority in 2042, with the nation projected to be 54 percent minority in 2050. …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

WTO Trade Policy Review Body – Report by the Secretariat – China – Revision

Trade Policy Review Body – Trade Policy Review – Report by the Secretariat – China – Revision, 12/08/2008: “Continued trade liberalization has remained an integral part of the China’s long-standing structural reform strategy, which is aimed at establishing an outward-oriented “socialist market economy” that can deliver sustained economic growth and facilitate poverty reduction. The ongoing …

Subjects: Government Documents

2008 Best Law Firms for Women Announced by Working Mother and Flex-Time Lawyers

2008 Best Law Firms for Women Announced by Working Mother and Flex-Time Lawyers – FindLaw: “The legal profession is in a work/life crisis, with 78% of associates leaving law firms by their fifth year and nearly 50% of women lawyers leaving the profession at some point in their careers. The question is whether law firms …

Subjects: Marketing

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