Audit of the Infrastructure as a Service Blanket Purchase Agreements, Report Number A110172/Q/A/P12008, June 4, 2012: “We identified the following during our audit: Finding 1 The lack of a strategy to determine the number of Blanket Purchase Agreements to award reduced the effectiveness of the Blanket Purchase Agreements. Finding 2 A Blanket Purchase… Continue Reading
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Gallup: Majority in U.S. Dissatisfied With Next Generation's Prospects
Gallup Politics: “Nearly six in 10 Americans are currently dissatisfied with the opportunity for the next generation of Americans to live better than their parents. Older Americans are particularly unhappy on this question, but on balance, the majority of young adults are negative as well. The idea of America as a place where citizens can… Continue Reading
A Study of "Churn" in Tweets and Real-Time Search Queries
A Study of “Churn” in Tweets and Real-Time Search Queries (Extended Version) – Jimmy Lin, Gilad Mishne (Submitted on 30 May 2012) “The real-time nature of Twitter means that term distributions in tweets and in search queries change rapidly: the most frequent terms in one hour may look very different from those in the next.… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Phosphate Mining, DOD Business Systems Modernization, Disaster Assistance Workforce
Phosphate Mining: Oversight Has Strengthened, but Financial Assurances and Coordination Still Need Improvement. GAO-12-505, May 4, 2012 DOD Business Systems Modernization – Governance Mechanisms for Implementing Management Controls Need to Be Improved, GAO-12-685, June 1, 2012 Disaster Assistance Workforce – FEMA Could Enhance Human Capital Management and Training, GAO-12-685, June 1, 2012 Continue Reading
Agencies Sign Memorandum of Understanding on Supervisory Coordination
News release: “Five federal supervisory agencies today released a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that clarifies how the agencies will coordinate their supervisory activities, consistent with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act). Section 1025 of the Dodd-Frank Act requires that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the prudential regulators–the… Continue Reading
International Journal of Central Banking, June 2012 issue
International Journal of Central Banking June 2012 issue – full-text of articles as follows: Estimated Impact of the Federal Reserve’s Mortgage-Backed Securities Purchase Program, by Johannes Stroebel and John B. Taylor Discretionary Fiscal Policies over the Cycle: New Evidence Based on the ESCB Disaggregated Approach, by Luca Agnello and Jacopo Cimadomo Traditional versus New Keynesian… Continue Reading
Welcome to NYOpenGovernment.com
New York State Office of the Attorney General – “A Public Integrity Initiative – NYOpenGovernment.com is an effort by the Attorney Generals office to promote your right to know and to monitor governmental decision-making. NYOpenGovernment.com is the only statewide resource that allows you to easily access statewide government information, which until now has been scattered… Continue Reading
JEC Releases May State-by-State Economic Snapshots
[May 21, 2012] “the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) released the May 2012 edition of its state-by-state snapshots which detail each individual states economic progress for the previous month. The report shows that more than three-in-five states added private sector jobs in April and 130,000 private-sector jobs were added last month. The report entitled… Continue Reading
Pew – When Labels Dont Fit: Hispanics and Their Views of Identity
When Labels Dont Fit: Hispanics and Their Views of Identity by Paul Taylor, Mark Hugo Lopez, Jessica Hamar Martínez and Gabriel Velasco “Nearly four decades after the United States government mandated the use of the terms Hispanic or Latino to categorize Americans who trace their roots to Spanish-speaking countries, a new nationwide survey of Hispanic… Continue Reading
BIS Quarterly Review, June 2012
“The BIS Quarterly Review for June 2012: returning doubts drive up financial market volatility. The June issue also provides highlights from the latest BIS data on international banking and financial activity.” Continue Reading
New York Fed Quarterly Report Shows Student Loan Debt Continues to Grow
“In its latest Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York today announced that student loan debt reported on consumer credit reports reached $904 billion in the first quarter of 2012, a $30 billion increase from the previous quarter. In addition, consumer deleveraging continued to advance as overall indebtedness… Continue Reading
NOAA: Carbon dioxide levels reach milestone at Arctic sites
News release: “The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Barrow, Alaska, reached 400 parts per million (ppm) this spring, according to NOAA measurements, the first time a monthly average measurement for the greenhouse gas attained the 400 ppm mark in a remote location. Carbon dioxide (CO2), emitted by fossil fuel combustion and other… Continue Reading
