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News release: “U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has released an action plan to guide the Obama Administrations historic efforts to restore the Great Lakes. The action plan, which the administrator unveiled at a Sunday meeting with governors from the Great Lakes states, lays out the most urgent threats facing the Great Lakes …
The Detection and Deterrence of Mortgage Fraud Against Financial Institutions: A White Paper, Produced by the July 13 24, 2009 FFIEC Fraud Investigations Symposium. “This White Paper is intended to raise the awareness of and assist examiners in identifying various mortgage fraud schemes perpetrated against financial institutions. The White Paper also provides best practices …
FHFA Working Paper 10-1: Estimating Median House Prices, Andrew Leventis, Senior Economist, Office of Policy Analysis and Research Federal Housing Finance Agency, February 2010. “Nondisclosure laws and other factors have hindered the production and release of median home price in many areas across the country. This paper attempts to fill the gaps and develops a …
WSJ: The Digital Dictatorship Evgeny Morozov on the myth of the techno-utopia. – “It’s fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom…For example, while the American public is actively engaged in a rich and …
News release: “The Obama Administration today released details of an over $400 million Healthy Food Financing Initiative, which will bring grocery stores and other healthy food retailers to underserved urban and rural communities across America. The initiative was announced today in Philadelphia by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. The two cabinet …
News release: “On a seasonally adjusted basis, the January Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the index increased 2.6 percent before seasonal adjustment. The seasonally adjusted increase in the all items index was due to rise in …
Youth at college and work: “At age 22, women are more likely to be enrolled in college than men and are also more likely to have completed a bachelors degree. Among 22-year-olds not enrolled in college, men are more likely than women to be employed in a civilian job or serving in the military.”
News release: Over the last year, Americas largest insurance companies have requested premium increases of 56 percent in Michigan, 24 percent in Connecticut, 23 percent in Maine, 20 percent in Oregon, and 16 percent in Rhode Island, to name just a few states, said HHS Secretary Sebelius. Premium increases have left thousands of families that …
License Suspensions for Nondriving Offenses: Practices in Four States That May Ease the Financial Impact on Low-Income Individuals, GAO-10-217, February 18, 2010 Recovery Act: Project Selection and Starts Are Influenced by Certain Federal Requirements and Other Factors, GAO-10-383, February 10, 2010 Electronic Personal Health Information Exchange: Health Care Entities’ Reported Disclosure Practices and Effects on …
DHS Controls Over Firearms, OIG-10-41, January 2010 “The departments management and oversight of component safeguards and controls over firearms were not effective. A key reason that firearm controls were not sufficient was because DHS did not have specific firearms policies and procedures in place. Instead, DHS relied on its components to augment its general property …
The Inaugural ForeSee Results E-Government Transparency Index – Quantifying the Relationship Between Online Transparency and Trust in Government, February 16, 2010 “In January of 2009, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum addressed to the executive heads of departments and agencies called Transparency and Open Government. Even as the White House and Office of Management and …
News release: “Employers initiated 2,043 mass layoff events in the fourth quarter of 2009 that resulted in the separation of 321,569 workers from their jobs for at least 31 days, according to preliminary figures released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number of fourth quarter 2009 events decreased from last year, following 12 …
