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“Cyber risk is now a major threat to clients’ businesses. Companies increasingly face new exposures including first-and third-party damage, business interruption (BI) and regulatory consequences. A Guide to Cyber Risk examines global trends and developments in cyber, while also identifying the emerging risks that will significantly impact the industry in the near future. > Download …
Release Date: September 17, 2015: “Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in July suggests that economic activity is expanding at a moderate pace. Household spending and business fixed investment have been increasing moderately, and the housing sector has improved further; however, net exports have been soft. The labor market continued to improve, …
“Between 2013 and 2014, the majority of metropolitan areas saw an increase in the percentage of people covered by health insurance, according to statistics released today from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, the nation’s most comprehensive information source on American households. The 2014 American Community Survey provides statistics on over 40 social, economic …
Federal Student Loans: Education Could Do More to Help Ensure Borrowers Are Aware of Repayment and Forgiveness Options, GAO-15-663: Published: Aug 25, 2015. Publicly Released: Sep 17, 2015. Grants Management: EPA Has Opportunities to Improve Planning and Compliance Monitoring, GAO-15-618: Published: Aug 17, 2015. Publicly Released: Sep 17, 2015. International Classification of Diseases: CMS Has …
PR Newswire: “ScienceOpen, the research + open access publishing network, has added article records from more than 10 million scientific publications. Researchers can now filter published content by the number of citations and monitor the relevance and impact of recent scientific results by tracking social media mentions. Over 20,000 scholarly journals are currently published worldwide. …
Helfman, Tara, The Dread Pirate Who? Challenges in Interpreting Treaty and Customary International Law in the United States (September 14, 2015). Tulane Law Review, Vol. 90, 2016 Forthcoming. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2660501 “Since 2009 the prohibition of piracy, one of the most ancient norms of customary international law, has been giving rise to …
Who Pays? The True Cost of Incarceration on Families proves that the costs of locking up millions of people in jail cells is much deeper than we think – when we lock up individuals we also break apart their families and communities. This new report reveals the overwhelming debt, mental and physical ailments and severed family …
“In a recent survey of what Americans know about science, we asked people to interpret the chart you see here and tell us what it showed. Six-in-ten (63%) identify the best interpretation of this chart as “the more sugar people eat, the more likely they are to get cavities.” This kind of chart — known as a scatterplot …
American Red Cross: Disaster Assistance Would Benefit from Oversight through Regular Federal Evaluation, GAO-15-565: Published: Sep 9, 2015. Publicly Released: Sep 16, 2015. Child Welfare: Steps Have Been Taken to Address Unregulated Custody Transfers of Adopted Children, GAO-15-733: Published: Sep 16, 2015. Publicly Released: Sep 16, 2015. Diplomatic Security: Options for Locating a Consolidated Training …
Via FAS – Secrecy News: The Chinese People’s Liberation Army in 2025 (Roy Kamphausen and David Lai, eds.), published July 2015 by the Strategic Studies Institute and the US Army War College Press. “China’s military research and development program is organized around 16 “national megaprojects” that are intended to advance and transform that country’s capabilities …
OIG – Board of Governor’s of the Federal Reserve – CFPB Report: 2015-FMIC-C-016 September 10, 2015 “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) publicly discloses certain consumer complaint data through its Consumer Complaint Database, which is available on its website. Our audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the CFPB’s controls over the accuracy and completeness of …
Executive Order – Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People, September 15, 2015: “A growing body of evidence demonstrates that behavioral science insights — research findings from fields such as behavioral economics and psychology about how people make decisions and act on them — can be used to design government policies to …
