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News release: “RealtyTrac®, the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, today released its July 2008 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows foreclosure filings default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions were reported on 272,171 U.S. properties during the month, an 8 percent increase from the previous month and a 55 percent increase …
News release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has published for public comment an agreement [Release No. 34-58350] among the securities self-regulatory organizations (SROs) that is designed to improve detection of insider trading across the equities markets by centralizing surveillance, investigation, and enforcement under NYSE Regulation, Inc. (NYSE Regulation) and the Financial …
News release: “The Navys use of low frequency active sonar will remain restricted to certain military training areas of the Pacific Ocean, according to an agreement approved by a U.S. district court in San Francisco today. The comprehensive agreement between the Navy and conservation organizations follows a court injunction issued early this year against the …
Military Base Realignments and Closures: Army Is Developing Plans to Transfer Functions from Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, but Challenges Remain, GAO-08-1010R, August 13, 2008 Schedule and Timing Issues Complicate Withholding Premiums for Medicare Parts C and D from Social Security Payments, GAO-08-816R, July 15, 2008
Immigration to the United States and World-Wide Greenhouse Gas Emissions, by Steven Camarota, Leon Kolankiewicz, August 2008 “The findings of this study indicate that future levels of immigration will have a significant impact on efforts to reduce global CO2 emissions. Immigration to the United States significantly increases world-wide CO2 emissions because it transfers population from …
Senate Lobbying Contributions Database House Lobbying Contributions Database “The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 requires lobbying registrants and individual lobbyists to file a semi-annual report of certain contributions, along with a certification that the filer understands the gift and travel rules of both the House and the Senate. These reports are due …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking public comments on a proposed rule prohibiting market manipulation in the petroleum industry. The NPRM will assist the Commission in determining whether, and in what ways, it should develop a final rule. The Commission expects to conclude the rulemaking process …
Reversal of Fortune: A New Look at Concentrated Poverty in the 2000s – Concentrated Poverty, Working Poor, Earned Income Tax Credit, U.S. Poverty, Inequality, August 8, 2008. “An analysis of the changing geographic distribution of low-income workers and their families, measured by receipt of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in tax years 1999 …
News release: “To save money, many Americans are cutting back on medical care potentially putting their health at risk according to new research from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). A national survey of 686 consumers, fielded in July, found that 22 percent of U.S. consumers say they have reduced the number …
H.R.1338 – To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes. House Reports: 110-783 Center for American Progress – Fair Pay by the Numbers: “the House passed the Paycheck Fairness Act, which …
Center for American Progress – A Global Imperative – A Progressive Approach to U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century, August 2008 “The next four years offer a critical window of opportunity to forge an innovative, durable, pragmatic, and effective approach to U.S.-China relations. A progressive China policy will safeguard U.S. national security interests, encourage the …
News release: “State attorneys general received thousands of consumer complaints of online fraud and abuse in 2006 and 2007 and yet, with the exception of several notable standouts, brought few significant cases in response, according to a report released today from the Center for American Progress and the Center for Democracy and Technology, Online Consumers …
