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News release: “A panel of retired senior U.S. military officers, former Members of Congress, National Guard generals and academics with expertise in responding to domestic disasters today delivered to the Congress and the secretary of defense a far-reaching report that details how defense officials can better support the nation’s response to a major disaster on …
Employee Tenure in 2010: “The median number of years that wage and salary workers had been with their current employer, referred to as employee tenure, was 4.4 in January 2010. The increase in tenure among those at work reflects, in part, relatively large job losses among less-senior workers in the most recent recession. Median employee …
News release: “Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., took Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials to task Wednesday for the Departments failure to complete a global architecture to detect the smuggling of nuclear materials, despite a five-year effort and the expenditure of $4 billion of …
“The Federal Communications Commission today launched FCC License View, a tool designed to make FCC license management information more transparent and accessible to a broad range of users. FCC License View is the latest release by the agency’s Data Innovation Initiative, a long-term effort aimed at reforming the collection, use, and dissemination of FCC data. …
U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes, August 2010: “U.S. import prices increased 0.6 percent in August, after rising 0.1 percent the previous month. Higher fuel and nonfuel prices contributed to the overall advance. Export prices rose 0.8 percent in August after declining 0.2 percent in July and 0.7 percent in June.” Related postings on financial …
Spotlight on Statistics: Back to College – “All of the increase in employment over the past two decades has been among workers who have taken at least some college classes or who have associate or bachelor’s degrees and mostly among workers with bachelor’s degrees. The number of these college-educated workers has increased almost every …
News release: “In an effort to inform the current discussion on the future of the housing finance system, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released data on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) that compare the credit quality and performance of the loans they acquired relative to loans financed with private-label mortgage-backed securities. Data …
“New Federal Reserve rules provide important protections when you purchase or use gift cards. Here are some key changes that apply to gift cards sold on or after August 22, 2010. Covered by the new rules: Store gift cards, which can be used only at a particular store or group of stores, such as a …
Military Training: DOD Continues to Improve Its Report on the Sustainability of Training Ranges, GAO-10-977R, September 14, 2010 Nuclear Waste: Actions Needed to Address Persistent Concerns with Efforts to Close Underground Radioactive Waste Tanks at DOE’s Savannah River Site, GAO-10-816, September 14, 2010 Public Transportation: Use of Contractors is Generally Enhancing Transit Project Oversight, and …
News release: ” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that the FY 2008 national cohort default rate is 7.0 percent, up from the FY 2007 rate of 6.7 percent. The default rates increased from 5.9 to 6 percent for public institutions, from 3.7 to 4 percent for private institutions, and from 11 to …
Global Entrepreneurship and the United States, September 2010 “This paper looks at the performance of the United States on the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), which captures the contextual features of entrepreneurship. The index builds on and improves earlier measures by capturing quantitative and qualitative aspects of entrepreneurship. It measures entrepreneurial performance in 71 …
State Legislature Websites: Via the THOMAS site, this graphical map provides mouse-over and text based links to State Legislature Websites For U.S. States and Territories, as well as key links to Other State Legislative Information.
