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News release: “HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius…address[ed] the University of Chicagos dialogue on health care reform and education and issue a new report on the employer-sponsored insurance market. The new report, Insurance Insecurity: Families Are Losing Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage, highlights problems in the status quo that have left Americans who receive health insurance from an employer …
“The annual Americas Civic Health Index, based on survey data collected in May 2009, is a look at the state of civic engagement in America that reflects the impact of the economic crisis. The surveys results reflect the hard choices Americans have made during the downturn, with 72 percent of respondents saying they have cut …
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Analysis of Options for Revising the Housing Enterprises’ Long-term Structures, GAO-09-782, September 10, 2009 Recovery Act: States’ and Localities’ Current and Planned Uses of Funds While Facing Fiscal Stresses, GAO-09-908T, September 10, 2009
Employer Costs for Employee Compensation: “Employers spent an average of $1.29 for employee retirement and savings plans for every hour worked in June 2009, the U.S. Department of Labors Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This accounted for 4.4 percent of total compensation. Retirement and savings, which includes both defined benefit and defined contribution plans, …
News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that real median household income in the United States fell 3.6 percent between 2007 and 2008, from $52,163 to $50,303. This breaks a string of three years of annual income increases and coincides with the recession that started in December 2007. The nations official poverty rate in …
Joint Session of Congress Pursuant to H. Con. Res. 179.
The Apps for America Winners [via Abi Morgan]: DataMasher: “DataMasher helps citizens have a little fun with those data by creating mashups to visualize them in different ways and see how states compare on important issues. Users can combine different data sets in interesting ways and create their own custom rankings of the states.” GovPulse: …
“On Wednesday, September 9, 2009, the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs continued its extensive oversight of U.S. efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan during a hearing designed to explore how the various Inspectors General and entities charged with oversight and accountability of U.S. military, diplomatic, and development resources intend to coordinate and enhance their …
White House: “Tonight the President will make clear to Congress exactly what he would like to see in the health insurance reform legislation that gets sent to his desk. With four out of five committees in Congress having finished their work and the fifth announcing today that they are moving forward, more progress has been …
Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Michael S. Barr Written Testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity on Stabilizing the Housing Market, September 9, 2009 Making Home Affordable Program Servicer Performance Report through August 2009 Related postings on financial system
September 9, 2009 – Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District: “Reports from the 12 Federal Reserve Districts indicate that economic activity continued to stabilize in July and August. Relative to the last report, Dallas indicated that economic activity had firmed, while Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Richmond, and San Francisco mentioned signs …
“The 2009 Secrecy Report Card chronicles slight decreases in secrecy across a wide spectrum of indicators in the last year of the Bush-Cheney Administration. The report, released today by a coalition of more than 70 open government advocates, also provides a six-month overview of the Obama Administrations promise and practice on openness issues, and a …
