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EPIC: “Bloomberg News has reported that the Federal Trade Commission has expanded its antitrust investigation of Google to include Google’s social networking service, Google+. The report comes after Google announced that it would include personal data gathered from Google+ in the results of users’ searches, a move that led EPIC to urge the FTC to …
National Infrastructure Bank: Overview and Current Legislation, December 14, 2011. “Several bills to establish a national infrastructure bank have been introduced in the 112th Congress. This report examines three such bills, the Building and Upgrading Infrastructure for Long-Term Development Act (S. 652), the American Infrastructure Investment Fund Act of 2011 (S. 936), and the National …
The U.S. Housing Market: Current Conditions and Policy Considerations, Federal Reserve White Paper submitted to Congress on January 4, 2012 – “The ongoing problems in the U.S. housing market continue to impede the economic recovery. House prices have fallen an average of about 33 percent from their 2006 peak, resulting in about $7 trillion in …
CRS: Changes in the Distribution of Income Among Tax Filers Between 1996 and 2006: The Role of Labor Income, Capital Income, and Tax Policy, Thomas L. Hungerford, Specialist in Public Finance, December 29, 2011 Social scientists and philosophers have been concerned with issues surrounding the distribution of income or income inequality for over 200 yearsthe …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission has approved a biennial report to Congress focusing on the use of the Do Not Call Registry by both consumers and businesses over the past two years, as well as the impact that new technologies have had on the Registry. As detailed in the report, the Do Not Call …
Department of Defense Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies Academic Program Year 2010-2011, Report to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives, released December 27, 2011 “While a number of challenges remain, the Department believes the greatest …
U.S. Nuclear Cooperation with India: Issues for Congress, Paul K. Kerr, Analyst in Nonproliferation, December 15, 2011 “India, which has not signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and does not have International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards on all of its nuclear material, exploded a peaceful nuclear device in 1974, convincing the world of the need for …
Budgetary Effects of the Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011, as Posted on the Website of the House Committee on Rules on December 22, 2011
EPIC: “Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Mike Lee (R-UT), Chairman and Ranking member of the Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, have sent a letter to FTC Chairman John Liebowitz, expressing concern about Google’s business practices and the company’s impact on competition in Internet search and commerce. In September, EPIC wrote to the FTC and described how Google …
2011 Lays Groundwork For Tax Reform, Makes Important Changes Impacting 2012: “2011 had been predicted to be a quiet year in federal tax news as it landed between major tax legislation in 2010 and expected tax reform in 2012 but the year brought many significant tax developments from the Obama Administration, Congress, the …
H.R. 1905 – Iran Threat Reduction Act of 2011 “H.R. 1905 would amend and expand existing sanctions against Iran. CBO estimates that implementing the bill would have a discretionary cost of $128 million over the 2012-2016 period, assuming appropriation of the necessary amounts. In addition, enacting the bill would increase revenues by $57 million over …
Response to Questions About the Effects of a Tax on Financial Transactions That Would Be Imposed by the Wall Street Trading and Speculators Tax Act, December 12. 2011 “The Impact of the Tax on Gross Domestic Product and U.S. Jobs – The taxs effect on economic output in the United States would depend on several …
