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Washington Post: “The federal agency in charge of policing the torrent of political spending during the upcoming presidential primaries will, for all practical purposes, shut its doors on New Year’s Eve. The Federal Election Commission will effectively go dark on Jan. 1 because Congress remains locked in a standoff over the confirmation of President Bush’s …
Washington Post: “The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world’s largest computer database of peoples’ physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad. Digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm patterns are already flowing into FBI systems in …
TPMmuckraker, State Dept Document from 2005 Shows Fraud in Blackwater’s Iraq Contract: “A report prepared for the State Department’s inspector general in January 2005, and obtained by TPMmuckraker, shows Blackwater’s accounting system for its no-bid, multimillion dollar Iraq contract was “not considered adequate for accumulating costs on government contracts.” The report is an audit of …
CDC National Center for Health Statistics: “The teen birth rate in the United States rose in 2006 for the first time since 1991, and unmarried childbearing also rose significantly, according to preliminary birth statistics released [December 3, 2007] by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…The report shows that between 2005 and 2006, the …
“Commissioned by the [Kaiser] Foundation, a new report by the Southern Institute on Children and Families provides state-by-state estimates of uninsured children in the southern region of the country, which contains 17 states and the District of Columbia. The report contains fact sheets showing estimates of uninsured children for each of these states. It shows …
The Inquirer: “Norway’s Government has mandated that its websites must use Open Document Format (ODF) for files published for use by the Norwegian public. “The government has decided that all information on governmental websites should be available in the open formats HTML, PDF or ODF. With this decision the times when public documents where only …
Press release: “Theres growing awareness of the nations February 2009 transition to digital television by TV broadcasters, yet the group of Americans with the lowest level of awareness about the transition includes those that are most deeply affected households that receive television programming exclusively over the air. These are among the results from the …
Budget Issues: Accrual Budgeting Useful in Certain Areas but Does Not Provide Sufficient Information for Reporting on Our Nation’s Longer-Term Fiscal Challenge, GAO-08-206, December 20, 2007 Military Health Care: Cost Data Indicate That TRICARE Reserve Select Premiums Exceeded the Costs of Providing Program Benefits GAO-08-104, December 21, 2007 Veterans’ Benefits: Improved Operational Controls and Management …
“This new web-only publication, Employment & Earnings Online, has replaced the monthly print publication, Employment & Earnings (E&E). The April 2007 issue was the final one to be issued on paper — in addition, this issue was the first one completely available in PDF format. The May 2007 issue is also available now and subsequent …
The New Yorker, Twilight of the Books – What will life be like if people stop reading? by Caleb Crain. “…In 1970, according to Editor & Publisher International Year Book, there were 62.1 million weekday newspapers in circulationabout 0.3 papers per person. Since 1990, circulation has declined steadily, and in 2006 there were just 52.3 …
OTS Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2007 – “Report highlights unique advantages of the thrift charter and the quality of OTS supervision.”
“The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.” Top 5 Data Links: Statistical Abstract of the United States 2008 12 – Resident Population–States: 1980 to 2006 [Excel 50k] | [PDF 460k] 7 – Resident …
