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Subsidized Jobs: Helping Americans Get Back To Work – “Because the Recovery Act is a temporary stimulus designed to boost job creation through a period of great labor market distress, programs in the Act sunset according to a preset schedule. However, if a program is still needed after its assigned shutoff dateSeptember 30, 2010 in …
News release: “Total nonfarm payroll employment grew by 431,000 in May, reflecting the hiring of 411,000 temporary employees to work on Census 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Private-sector employment changed little (+41,000). Manufacturing, temporary help services, and mining added jobs, while construction employment declined. The unemployment rate edged down to 9.7 …
Community Health Data Initiative Interim Work Page: “The Community Health Data Initiative is a collaborative effort among government and non-government partners to establish a network of suppliers and demanders of community health data, indicators, and interventions. Its purpose is to help Americans understand health and health care system performance in their communities, thereby sparking and …
News release: “The William Clinton Presidential Library will open records relating to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagans tenure at the White House Domestic Policy Council and the White House Counsels Office. The release of papers from the approximately 160,000 pages of material will be made available on the Clinton Library web site in batches …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a final new health standard for sulfur dioxide (SO2). This one-hour health standard will protect millions of Americans from short-term exposure to SO2, which is primarily emitted from power plants and other industrial facilities. Exposure to SO2 can aggravate asthma and cause other respiratory difficulties. …
“The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) gathers information on family life, marriage and divorce, pregnancy, infertility, use of contraception, and men’s and women’s health. The survey results are used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and others to plan health services and health education programs, and to do statistical studies of …
Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Summary, April 2010: “Unemployment rates were higher in April than a year earlier in 291 of the 372 metropolitan areas, lower in 73 areas, and unchanged in 8 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Fourteen areas recorded jobless rates of at least 15.0 percent, while 8 areas …
“New federal airline passenger protections took effect in April, but they were only a first step. The new rules dont cover all airlines or airports. And passengers still dont have a clear set of rights in many important customer service areas. The Department of Transportation (DOT) now wants to fill these gaps, and it’s asking …
“The Department of Transportation is proposing to improve the air travel environment for consumers by: increasing the number of carriers that are required to adopt tarmac delay contingency plans and the airports at which they must adhere to the plans terms; increasing the number of carriers that are required to report tarmac delay information to …
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this news release: “These images, acquired on May 24, 2010 by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument aboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft, show the encroachment of oil from the former Deepwater Horizon rig into Louisiana’s wildlife habitats. The source of the spill is located off the …
News release: “Today the Federal Communications Commission released the results of a survey on the consumer broadband experience. The survey found that 80 percent of broadband users in the United States do not know the speed of their broadband connection. The survey is part of the agencys overall broadband speed initiative, which involves several bureaus …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission has contributed a Report to the White House Council on Women and Girls. By enhancing consumer welfare, the FTCs mission touches and improves the lives of American women, children, and families in countless ways. The Report focuses on discrete FTC program areas that have a particular impact on women …
