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March 2008: “This issue of eJournal [volume 13, number 3] USA delves into what those familiar with the history of the environmental movement in the United States might see as a surprising trend the way U.S. corporations in recent years have embraced environmentally friendly ways of doing business. What prompts a corporation to go …
Food & Water Watch – a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food: More Foul Fowl – An Updated Analysis of Salmonella Contamination in Broiler Chickens, March 2008: “The bacteria Salmonella is the leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States with nearly a million cases of salmonellosis attributed …
The Three Leading Causes of Injury Mortality in the United States, 1999-2005, by Lois A. Fingerhut, M.A., Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, and Robert N. Anderson, Ph.D., Division of Vital Statistics: “In 2005, poisoning continued to be the second leading cause of injury death in the United States, having surpassed firearms for the first time …
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, 2005-2006. February 2008 37 pp. (PHS) 2008-1205 “This report is the latest in a series of periodic reviews of the work of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), the statutory public advisory committee on health information policy to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of …
News release: “The Federal Reserves 2007 study of the composition of the check market released today shows that nearly 50 percent of checks written are consumer-to-business checks. The Check Sample Study reports on the composition of the check market based on responses from nine large financial institutions that together account for about one quarter of …
DOE OIG Inspection Report: Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence Internal Controls Over the Department of Energy’s Sensitive Compartmented Information Access Program, March 2008 – “We concluded that Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence did not have adequate internal controls over its Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access program.”
Follow up to State Department Acknowledges Unauthorized Access to Passport Records of Presidential Candidates, today’s news release: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today urged the Attorney General to take immediate action to investigate reported breaches of the passport files of the three presidential candidates at the State …
Trustees Report & Trust Funds: “The Medicare Program is the second-largest social insurance program in the U.S., with 44.1 million beneficiaries and total expenditures of $432 billion in 2007. The Boards of Trustees for Medicare (also Boards) report annually to the Congress on the financial operations and actuarial status of the program. Beginning in 2002, …
“The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an inter-governmental body whose purpose is the development and promotion of national and international policies to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.” FATF Terrorist Financing Report, March 14, 2008 (37 pages, PDF): “This study examines the means used by terrorists to raise funds and the wide variety of …
United States Marshals Service Annual Financial Statement, Fiscal Year 2007, Audit Report 08-15, March 2008 (Commentary and Summary Only) Offices, Boards and Divisions Annual Financial Statement, Fiscal Year 2007, Audit Report 08-17, March 2008 (Commentary and Summary Only) Assets Forfeiture Fund and Seized Asset Deposit Fund Annual Financial Statement, Fiscal Year 2007, Audit Report 08-14, …
Related to this posting today, Social Security Trustees Release 2008 Annual Report, a new report, Social Security’s Financial Outlook: The 2008 Update in Perspective, by Alicia H. Munnell, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. “The Trustees of the Social Security system have just issued the 2008 projections for the system over the next 75 …
News release: “The Social Security Board of Trustees today released its annual report on the financial health of the Social Security Trust Funds. While the key dates for program costs exceeding tax revenues and Trust Fund exhaustion remain unchanged, the 2008 Trustees Report shows improvement in the projected long-term financial status of the Social Security …
