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Aviation and the Environment: NextGen and Research and Development Are Keys to Reducing Emissions and Their Impact on Health and Climate, GAO-08-706T, May 6, 2008 Employment and Training Program Grants: Evaluating Impact and Enhancing Monitoring Would Improve Accountability, GAO-08-486, May 7, 2008 Human Capital: Corps of Engineers Needs to Update Its Workforce Planning Process to …
Employer Health Costs In a Global Economy – A Competitive Disadvantage For U.S. Firms, By Len Nichols, Sarah Axeen, New America Foundation, May 2008: “Although most Americans get health insurance through their employers, business leaders are increasingly united in their belief that rising health care costs threaten Americas competitiveness in the global economy. Business support …
News release: “The FBI has withdrawn an unconstitutional national security letter (NSL) issued to the Internet Archive after a legal challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). As the result of a settlement agreement, the FBI withdrew the NSL and agreed to the unsealing of the case, finally …
Healthcare Inspection Scopes of Practice for Unlicensed Physicians Engaged in Veterans Health Administration Research [07-01202-124], May 7, 2008. “We determined in a previous inspection that certain unlicensed physicians functioned outside their scopes of practice, engaging in activities that may constitute the practice of medicine. In an effort to identify whether this problem was systemic in …
Fact Sheet: Emergency Supplemental: Iraq, Afghanistan, Veterans, and Workers, House Appropriations Committee – Majority, May 7, 2008. “This week the House of Representatives will consider the emergency supplemental bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and pressing domestic needs. Under consideration are $183.77 billion in outstanding requests from the President. The Democratic proposal …
News release: “The Treasury Department today released U.S. reserve assets data for the latest week. As indicated in this table, U.S. reserve assets totaled $73,918 million as of the end of that week, compared to $74,541 million as of the end of the prior week.”
Worst of the Worst: The World’s Most Repressive Societies 2008 (124 pages, PDF) “Freedom House has prepared this overview report as a companion to our annual survey on the state of global political rights and civil liberties, Freedom in the World. We are publishing this report to assist policymakers, human rights organizations, democracy advocates, and …
Hard Hats See Hard Times: “Today’s worries about the state of the job market are far more heavily concentrated in the lower portions of the income spectrum,” by Michael Dimock, Associate Director for Research, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, May 7, 2008.
EPA OIG Semiannual Report to Congress, October 1, 2007 – March 31, 2008 (72 pages, PDF)
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works – hearing entitled Perchlorate and TCE in Water, May 6, 2008. From Opening Statement by Chairman Barbara Boxer: “…today we will hear about EPA’s particularly disturbing failures to address significant risks to our families from two widespread drinking water contaminants: perchlorate and trichloroethylene, usually just called “TCE.” Perchlorate …
US Courts news release: “In fiscal year 2007, it cost $24,922 to keep someone incarcerated in a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility for 12 months, and $22,871 to keep an inmate incarcerated in a community correction center. For the same 12-month period ending September 30, 2007, it cost $3,621.64 for a federal offender to be …
Monthly Budget Review, May 2008 pdf | blog. Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for March and the Daily Treasury Statements for April.
