Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation, May 8, 2012: “Two-thirds of adults and one-third of children are overweight or obese. Left unchecked, obesity’s effects on health, health care costs, and our productivity as a nation could become catastrophic. The staggering human toll of obesity-related chronic disease and disability and an… Continue Reading
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2011 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports
“2011 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports: For the ninth year in a row, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has produced the 2011 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports For the ninth year in a row, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has produced the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR)… Continue Reading
Insourcing Functions Performed by Federal Contractors: An Overview of the Legal Issues
CRS: Insourcing Functions Performed by Federal Contractors: An Overview of the Legal Issues – Kate M. Manuel, Legislative Attorney; Jack Maskell, Legislative Attorney, May 7, 2012 “Recent Congresses and the Obama Administration have taken numerous actions to promote insourcing, or the use of government personnel to perform functions that contractors have performed on behalf of… Continue Reading
CRS – Racial Profiling: Legal and Constitutional Issues
Racial Profiling: Legal and Constitutional Issues, Jody Feder – Legislative Attorney, April 16, 2012 “Racial profiling is the practice of targeting individuals for police or security detention based on their race or ethnicity in the belief that certain minority groups are more likely to engage in unlawful behavior. Examples of racial profiling by federal, state,… Continue Reading
OTC derivatives market activity in the second half of 2011
OTC derivatives market activity in the second half of 2011. Bank for International Settlements, May 9, 2012. Key developments in the second half of 2011: “Data at end-December 2011 are not fully comparable with previous periods because of an increase in the reporting population. Australia and Spain reported for the first time, expanding the reporting… Continue Reading
CSIS – Political Governance and Strategy in Afghanistan
Political Governance and Strategy in Afghanistan, By Robert D. Lamb. Contributor: Brooke Shawn, Apr 30, 2012 “Afghanistans de facto system of governance is a politically driven hybrid order made up of shifting links among many different formal, informal, and illicit actors, networks, and institutions. Because its central government does not have the capacity to govern… Continue Reading
Paying Too Much for Energy? The True Costs of Our Energy Choices
Paying Too Much for Energy? The True Costs of Our Energy Choices, Michael Greenstone & Adam Looney, Brookings, May 2012 “Energy consumption is critical to economic growth and quality of life. Americas energy system, however, is malfunctioning. The status quo is characterized by a tilted playing field, where energy choices are based on the visible… Continue Reading
Sunlight Foundation Reports on U.S. Embassies and Social Media
Sunlight Labs: “The U.S. State Department encourages the use of social media and actively tweets as part of a new 21st Century Statecraft initiative, with diplomats required to undergo Twitter training. But why do 121 U.S. embassies have Twitter accounts, and 54 do not? What do they say through these accounts? And who listens?” Twitter… Continue Reading
Myspace Settles FTC Charges That It Misled Millions of Users About Sharing Personal Information with Advertisers
News release: “Social networking service Myspace has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it misrepresented its protection of users’ personal information. The settlement, part of the FTC’s ongoing efforts make sure companies live up to the privacy promises they make to consumers, bars Myspace from future privacy misrepresentations, requires it to implement a… Continue Reading
FTC Seeks Return of $52 Million Worth of Bogus Phone Bill Cramming Charges
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission is seeking a civil contempt ruling against the nation’s largest third-party billing company, alleging that it placed more than $70 million in bogus “cramming” charges on consumers’ phone bills in violation of a previous court order. The FTC is asking a federal court to make the company pay more… Continue Reading
FTC Joins DOJ and CFPB in Filing Brief Supporting the Constitutionality of Fair Credit Reporting Act
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission has joined the Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in filing a memorandum brief in support of the constitutionality of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the 1970 law that is designed to protect the privacy of credit report information and ensure that the information supplied… Continue Reading
TRAC: ICE Charges Criminal Activity in Fewer Deportation Proceedings
TRAC: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to cite criminal activity as grounds for deportation less often than it used to, according to the latest Immigration Court data on new deportation proceedings. During the most recent quarter (January – March 2012), ICE sought to deport a total of 5,450 individuals on criminal grounds. While this… Continue Reading
