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Follow up to previous postings on lessons from Fort Hood and the Fort Hood Attack: A Preliminary Assessment, news today – DOD Releases Final Fort Hood Review. Protecting the Force: Lessons Learned from Fort Hood, August 18, 2010
Annual Energy Review 2009 Aug 19, 2010 “In 2009, U.S. primary energy production fell 1 percent to 73 quadrillion Btu. Renewable energy production reached 8 quadrillion Btu in 2009, with wind energy registering the largest year-to-year percentage increase among renewable sources. U.S. primary energy consumption fell to 95 quadrillion Btu in 2009, down from …
The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update, August 2010 [includes links to the entire report and Supplemental Material] “The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the federal budget deficit for 2010 will exceed $1.3 trillion $71 billion below last year’s total and $27 billion lower than the amount that CBO projected in March 2010, …
News release: “In the week ending Aug. 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 500,000, an increase of 12,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 488,000. The 4-week moving average was 482,500, an increase of 8,000 from the previous week’s revised average of 474,500. The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate …
News release: “The Army released suicide data today for the month of July. Among active-duty soldiers, there were 12 potential suicides: three were confirmed as suicides, and nine remain under investigation.For June, the Army reported 21 potential suicides among active-duty soldiers. Since the release of that report, 10 have been confirmed as suicides, and 11 …
National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries in 2009 (Preliminary Results): “A preliminary total of 4,340 fatal work injuries were recorded in the United States in 2009, down from a final count of 5,214 fatal work injuries in 2008. The 2009 total represents the smallest annual preliminary total since the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) …
“Real average hourly earnings for all employees fell 0.2 percent from June to July, seasonally adjusted. This decrease stems from a 0.2-percent increase in average hourly earnings combined with a 0.3-percent increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U).” See also Chart Data.
News release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the State of New Jersey with securities fraud for misrepresenting and failing to disclose to investors in billions of dollars worth of municipal bond offerings that it was underfunding the state’s two largest pension plans. According to the SEC’s order, New Jersey offered and sold more …
News release: “President Obamas Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), co-chaired by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE), delivered a series of recommendations to the president today on overcoming the barriers to the widespread, cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years. CCS is a group of …
“Todays older Americans enjoy longer lives and better health than did previous generations. These and other trends are reported in Older Americans 2010: Key Indicators of Well-Being, a unique, comprehensive look at aging in the United States from the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics. Older Americans 2010, the fifth report prepared by the Forum …
“The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury today released the second edition of the Administration’s Housing Scorecard showing that, thanks in part to interest rates continuing at all-time lows, home affordability in the U.S. remains near the most attractive levels in 10 years. In addition, for …
Anticipating and Meeting Accountability Challenges in a Dynamic Environment, Gene L. Dodaro, Acting Comptroller General, U.S. Government Accountability Office, July 12, 2010 [via Government Innovators Network] “Major topics of this presentation include: threats confronting U.S. national security interests, fiscal sustainability and debt challenges, economic recovery and restored growth, the changing dynamics of global interdependence, advances …
