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“The percentage of young first-time mothers who are married is dropping, according to Fertility of Women in the United States: 2012, a report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. In the early 1990s, at least half of all first births to mothers younger than age 23 occurred in marriage. Since 2005, more young mothers were cohabiting …
BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS AND EXPLOSIVES: Enhancing Data Collection Could Improve Management of Investigations, GAO-14-553: Published: Jun 30, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 9, 2014. EXPORT-IMPORT BANK: Information on Export Credit Agency Financing Support for Wide-Body Jets, GAO-14-642R: Published: Jul 8, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 9, 2014. HUMAN CAPITAL: DOD Should Fully Develop Its Civilian Strategic Workforce Plan to Aid Decision Makers, GAO-14-565: Published: …
Adam Copeland, Isaac Davis, Eric LeSueur, and Antoine Martin: “The repurchase agreement (repo), a contract that closely resembles a collateralized loan, is widely used by financial institutions to lend to each other. The repo market is divided into trades that settle on the books of the two large clearing banks (that is, tri-party repo) and trades …
“The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on June 17-18, 2014. A summary of economic projections made by Federal Reserve Board members and Reserve Bank presidents for the meeting is also included as an addendum to these minutes. The minutes for each …
“PISA’s first financial literacy assessment shows the extent to which 15-year-old students have the financial knowledge and skills needed for the demands of today’s world. Finance is part of everyday life for many 15-year-olds, who are already consumers of financial services, such as bank accounts. As they near the end of compulsory education, students will …
“This document serves as an overview of the size and characteristics of the Federal civilian workforce, enabling reporters, external analysts, and the general public access to commonly requested descriptive information. This document will first cover the limitations and nature of the federal employment data that OPM regularly posts on the web. It will then describe …
AFGHANISTAN: Kabul Embassy Construction Costs Have Increased and Schedules Have Been Extended, GAO-14-661R: Published: Jul 8, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 8, 2014. BULK FUEL PRICING: DOD Needs to Reevaluate Its Approach to Better Manage the Effect of Market Fluctuations, GAO-14-595: Published: Jul 8, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 8, 2014. ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS: Fiscal Year 2013 Expenditure Plan Lacks Key Information Needed to …
“Long known as China’s granary, Hunan Province has been a major rice producer for the nation’s growing and increasingly urban population. But toxic pollution from Hunan’s mines and heavy metal plants has contaminated large tracts of its once-fertile farmland and put China’s staple food supply at risk.” The second in a series by He Guangwei, a staff writer …
Jonathan Rothwell, Brookings: “This report uses a unique database from the labor market information company Burning Glass and other sources to analyze the skill requirements and the advertisement duration time for millions of job openings. It reaches the following conclusions: Job openings for STEM positions take longer to fill than openings in other fields. The …
NPR – “Stress is part of the human condition, unavoidable and even necessary to a degree. But too much stress can be toxic — even disabling. And there’s a lot of toxic stress out there A national poll done by NPR with our partners at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health finds that more than …
IRS CORRESPONDENCE AUDITS: Better Management Could Improve Tax Compliance and Reduce Taxpayer Burden, GAO-14-479: Published: Jun 5, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 7, 2014. PENSION ADVANCE TRANSACTIONS: Questionable Business Practices Identified, GAO-14-420: Published: Jun 4, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 7, 2014 PRIVATE PENSIONS: Targeted Revisions Could Improve Usefulness of Form 5500 Information, GAO-14-441: Published: Jun 5, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 7, 2014. MANAGEMENT REPORT: Improvements …
Via Business Insider – Oxfam International has made a graphic showing how a handful of corporations control nearly everything we buy at the grocery store. The graphic focuses on 10 of the world’s most powerful food and beverage companies: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Unilever, Danone, Mars, Mondelez International, Kellogg’s, General Mills, Nestle, and Associated British Foods. Oxfam calls these companies the …
