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EIA – Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey Report Release, September 29, 2010: “Office Buildings” provides an in-depth look at this building type as reported in the 2003 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey. Office buildings are the most common type of commercial building and they consumed more than 17 percent of all energy in the commercial …
Defense Infrastructure: Department of Defense’s Energy Supplemental Report, GAO-10-988R, September 29, 2010 Department of Defense: Financial Management Improvement and Audit Readiness Efforts Continue to Evolve, GAO-10-1059T, September 29, 2010 Export Promotion: Observations on the Export-Import Bank’s Efforts to Achieve U.S. Policy Goals, GAO-10-1069T, September 29, 2010 Information Sharing: Federal Agencies Are Helping Fusion Centers Build …
Statement of Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director, The Economic Outlook and Fiscal Policy Choices, before the Committee on the Budget United States Senate September 28, 2010 “CBO expectsas do most private forecastersthat the economic recovery will proceed at a modest pace during the next few years. In its projections released in August, CBO forecast that, under …
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, Regulatory Reform Implementation, Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C., September 30, 2010 “A final element of the Federal Reserve’s efforts to implement the Dodd-Frank Act relates to the transparency of our balance sheet and liquidity programs. Well before enactment, we were providing a great …
Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment – August 2010: “Unemployment rates were lower in August than a year earlier in 182 of the 372 metropolitan areas, higher in 169 areas, and unchanged in 21 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Twelve areas recorded jobless rates of at least 15.0 percent, while 9 areas …
News release: “A new national study reveals that nearly 7.8 million adolescents aged 12 to 17, almost one third (30.9 percent), participated in any of three violent behaviors over the past year. The study, conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), showed that 22.6 percent of adolescents reported having participated in …
News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau today released the results of the 2009 American Community Survey (ACS), one of a series of data products the Census Bureau is releasing in the coming months that provides information on the nation’s population. Today’s release is based on survey responses collected over the course of the 2009 calendar …
NHTSAs National Center for Statistics and Analysis – Distracted Driving 2009, September 2010: “In 2009, there were 30,797 fatal crashes in the United States, which involved 45,230 drivers. In those crashes, 33,808 people were killed. Distraction was reported for 11 percent (5,084) of the drivers involved in fatal crashes. In these crashes reported to have …
“ACS Briefs – With each new release of ACS data, the Census Bureau develops several “Briefs” that present new findings on important topics. The first round of Briefs developed from the 2009 data is listed below. Additional Briefs will be released later this year. Poverty: 2008 and 2009 Household Income for States: 2008 and 2009 …
The 2009 HMDA Data: The Mortgage Market in a Time of Low Interest Rates and Economic Distress (Draft), Robert B. Avery, Neil Bhutta, Kenneth P. Brevoort, and Glenn B. Canner. September 2010 “The data that mortgage lending institutions reported for 2009 under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 (HMDA) reflect the ongoing difficulties in …
“Biometric recognition–the automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioral and biological characteristic–is promoted as a way to help identify terrorists, provide better control of access to physical facilities and financial accounts, and increase the efficiency of access to services and their utilization. Biometric recognition has been applied to identification of criminals, patient tracking in …
“While the rich world puts its house in order, developing countries are becoming a new engine of global growth and a pulling force for advanced economies, says a new book by World Bank economists. According to The Day After Tomorrow: A Handbook on the Future of Economic Policy in the Developing World, Otaviano Canuto and …
