Category «E-Government»

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Volunteering in the United States, 2008

Volunteering in the United States, 2008: ” About 61.8 million people, or 26.4 percent of the population, volunteered through or for an organization at least once between September 2007 and September 2008, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Both the level and rate of volunteering were essentially unchanged …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

New GAO Reports: Federal User Fees, Immigration Application Fees, VA Health Care

Federal User Fees: Additional Analyses and Timely Reviews Could Improve Immigration and Naturalization User Fee Design and USCIS Operations, GAO-09-180, January 23, 2009 Immigration Application Fees: Costing Methodology Improvements Would Provide More Reliable Basis for Setting Fees, GAO-09-70, January 23, 2009 VA Health Care: Long-Term Care Strategic Planning and Budgeting Need Improvement, GAO-09-145, January 23, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

FTC Launches Redress Program for Mortgage Loan Victims

News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today announced that the agency returned almost $28 million to consumers this week as a result of a settlement with The Bear Stearns Companies, LLC and EMC Mortgage Corporation. Using the defendants’ records, about 86,000 consumers who had mortgage loans serviced by EMC have been mailed redress checks.”

Subjects: Courts, E-Government, Government Documents

2009 Poverty Guidelines – One Version of the [U.S.] Federal Poverty Measure

Health and Human Services 2009 Poverty Guidelines: There are two slightly different versions of the federal poverty measure: The poverty thresholds, and The poverty guidelines. The poverty thresholds are the original version of the federal poverty measure. They are updated each year by the Census Bureau (although they were originally developed by Mollie Orshansky of …

Subjects: E-Government

New Executive Orders on Guantanamo Detention Facilities, Detention Policy, Lawful Interrogations

Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in order to effect the appropriate disposition of individuals currently detained by the Department of Defense at the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

Annual Superfund Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2008

EPA-350-R-09-001 Annual Superfund Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2008, [Report PDF – 22 pages] January 2009 “As the amount of funds available for Superfund work continues to diminish, it becomes increasingly imperative for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to spend its Superfund dollars as prudently as possible to achieve maximum benefits from dollars …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Energy Information Admnistration Reports: International Energy Annual, Electric Sales, Electric Power

International Energy Annual 2006 (01/22/2009): “The International Energy Annual 2006 is the Energy Information Administration’s primary report of international energy statistics. Included are data on energy consumption and production; overviews of petroleum, natural gas, coal, and electricity, as well as carbon dioxide emissions from the use of fossil fuels, petroleum prices, energy reserves, and population; …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum

George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum: “The George W. Bush Library holds millions of pages of official records documenting the two-term administration (2001-2009) of the nation’s forty-third president, as well as donated historical materials that document Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign and his personal papers as Governor of Texas. In addition to these textual records, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Libraries