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UK Daily Mail: “Iceland’s banking system is £35billion in debt – the equivalent of an incredible £116,000 for every man, woman and child on the island, it was revealed today. With a population of just over 300,000 – less than that of Norwich – a miniscule economy and banks deeply involved in global markets before …
OIG-08-94 – Evaluation of DHS’ Information Security Program for Fiscal Year 2008 (PDF, 43 pages) EPA OIG, 08-P-0280, Fiscal Year 2008 Federal Information Security Management Act Report [Report PDF], September 26, 2008
News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau today released the most extensive estimates it has ever published on county-level demographic characteristics of people with and without health insurance coverage. The 2005 estimates cover all states and counties across gender, age and income as well as race and Hispanic origin (for states only).” “The Small Area Health …
The Open House Project: “Fulfilling one of the recommendations of the Open House Project report, The Library of Congress has published on their THOMAS web page directions for creating permanent links.” THOMAS: “Legislative Handles are a new persistent URL service for creating links to legislative documents from the THOMAS web site (http://thomas.loc.gov). With a simple …
Veterans’ Disability Benefits: Better Accountability and Access Would Improve the Benefits Delivery at Discharge Program, GAO-08-901, September 09, 2008 Food Labeling: FDA Needs to Better Leverage Resources, Improve Oversight, and Effectively Use Available Data to Help Consumers Select Healthy Foods, GAO-08-597, September 09, 2008 FDA Advisory Committees: Process for Recruiting Members and Evaluating Potential Conflicts …
Follow up to September 17, 2008 posting, Congress Passes ADA Amendments Act, this America.gov article, Protections for Americas Disabled Workers Expanded Under New Law: “A new law restores workplace protections for the disabled that had eroded as a result of several Supreme Court decisions issued since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed in …
Treasury IG for Tax Administration: Individual Retirement Account Contributions and Distributions Are Not Adequately Monitored to Ensure Tax Compliance, March 28, 2008, Reference Number: 2008-40-087 “We analyzed more than 13.7 million IRA Contribution Information (Form 5498) showing IRA contributions in Tax Year (TY) 2005 and identified 51,109 taxpayers who had made IRA contributions in excess …
New York Times: “Having tried without success to unlock frozen credit markets, the Treasury Department is considering taking ownership stakes in many United States banks to try to restore confidence in the financial system, according to government officials…The proposal resembles one announced on Wednesday in Britain. Under that plan, the British government would offer banks …
OPEC Revenues Factsheet (10/08/2008): “Based on projections from the EIA October 2008 Short Term Energy Outlook (STEO), members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could earn $1,084 billion of net oil export revenues in 2008, and $1,084 billion in 2009. Through September, OPEC has earned an estimated $821 billion in net oil …
Financial support to the banking industry: “After consultation with the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority, the Government announces that it is bringing forward specific and comprehensive measures to ensure the stability of the financial system and to protect ordinary savers, depositors, businesses and borrowers. In summary the proposals announced today are intended …
News release: “With financial markets worldwide facing growing turmoil, internationally coherent and decisive policy measures are required to restore confidence in the global financial system, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says in a new report. “Failure to do so could usher in a period in which the ongoing deleveraging process becomes increasingly disorderly and costly …
Monthly Budget Review: October 2008, A Congressional Budget Office Analysis, October 7, 2008 “CBO estimates that the federal budget deficit was about $438 billion in fiscal year 2008, $276 billion more than the shortfall recorded in 2007. Relative to the size of the economy, the 2008 deficit was equal to 3.1 percent of gross domestic …
