Task Force on Future of American Innovation Issues Report
Press Release on Innovation Task Force Benchmarks Report, November 16, 2006 Measuring the Moment: Innovation, National Security and Economic Competitiveness
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Prisoners in 2005 and Probation and Parole in the United States, 2005
Bureau of Justice Statistics press release: “As of last Dec. 31 there were 1,525,924 prisoners being held by state and federal correctional authorities, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced in a report published today. At the same time a separate BJS survey found that the adult U.S. correctional population, including those on …
DOJ OIG Semiannual Report to Congress
Office of the Inspector General Semiannual Report to Congress, April 1, 2006-September 30, 2006: “In this semiannual report we…summarize other OIG investigations, inspections, audits, and special reviews. As described throughout this report, OIG investigators continued their important work investigating allegations of criminal and administrative misconduct by Department of Justice (Department) employees and contractors.” Semiannual Report …
2007 Digital Future Report
“The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School has been tracking a representative sample of the American population for over six years watching as people move on-line and then move from modems to broadband.” Highlights of the 2007 Digital Future Report “This year’s report contains a large module looking at on-line communities …
Court Rules FEMA Must Resume Katrina Housing Payments
U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon’s ruling stated that “the Bush administration unconstitutionally denied aid to tens of thousands of Gulf Coast residents displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita and must resume payments immediately.” Association of Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN), et al. v. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Civil Action No. 2006-1521 Memorandum …
CBO Report: Recruiting, Retention, and Future Levels of Military Personnel
Recruiting, Retention, and Future Levels of Military Personnel, October 2006 (106 pages, PDF)
GAO Report on Eminent Domain
Eminent Domain: Information about Its Uses and Effect on Property Owners and Communities Is Limited, Full text GAO-07-28, and Highlights, November 30, 2006. “In the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006, Congress mandated that GAO conduct a nationwide study on the use of …
USDA Quarterly Agricultural Export Forecast
Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade – “Offers the latest value and volume of U.S. agricultural exports, by commodity and region, as well as the agricultural trade balance and the import and export outlook.” The following charts are in PDF: Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade Commodity/Country Revisions in FY 2007 Exports Export Outlook for Grain & …
Establishment of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
Federal Communications Commission Final Rule, November 29, 2006: “To promote a more efficient, effective and responsive organizational structure and to better promote and address public safety, homeland security, national security, emergency management and preparedness, disaster management, and related issues, the Commission has concluded that the proper dispatch of its business and the public interest will …
OYEZ Project Blog Provides Quick Access to Range of Supreme Court Documents and Data
With a wide range of content formats, from podcasts to RSS and searchable databases, the OYEZ blog is a unique and content richs online resource to locate cases, information on the justices, Listen to or download the official version of recent oral arguments, and read court related news.
World Aids Day, December 1, 2006
“World AIDS Day is a day when people from around the world come together within a single effort. The global theme for the World AIDS Day 2006 is accountability – and the slogan is “Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.” Via UN Pulse, “The Dag Hammarskjöld Library has compiled a list of related resources and weblinks.” …
New EU Communication on Spam
Press release: “The Commission today called on all regulatory authorities and stakeholders in Europe to step up the fight against spam, spyware and malicious software. Despite existing EU legislation to outlaw spam in Europe, Europe continues to suffer from illegal online activities from inside the EU and from third countries, the Commission underlines in a …
