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Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization – G.17 “Industrial production was unchanged in February after having risen 0.4 percent in January. Previously, industrial production was reported to have been unchanged in January. Manufacturing output moved up 0.3 percent in February. Within manufacturing, the index for motor vehicles and parts fell 1.1 percent after jumping 8.6 percent …
Defense Contracting – Competition for Services and Recent Initiatives to Increase Competitive Procurements, GAO-12-384, Mar 15, 2012 Federal Contracting – Effort to Consolidate Governmentwide Acquisition Data Systems Should Be Reassessed, GAO-12-429, Mar 15, 2012 Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request – U.S. Government Accountability Office, GAO-12-456T, Mar 15, 2012 Nuclear Nonproliferation, Further Actions Needed by U.S. …
CRS – The U.S. Income Distribution and Mobility: Trends and International Comparisons, Linda Levine, Specialist in Labor Economics, March 7, 2012 “Approaching three years into the recovery from the 2007-2009 recession, the unemployment rate remains over 8%. The persistent difficulty of many of the workers who lost jobs to find reemployment has meant reduced incomes …
“As of today, March 16, 2012, the transition from GPO Access to GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) is complete. FDsys now is GPO’s only Web site for online official and authentic Government information from all three branches of the Federal Government. After ushering GPO into the online world 16 years ago, GPO Access has been …
“A new guide from the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured provides a comprehensive look at the appeals process for the Medicaid program, which differs significantly from those available through the Medicare program and private health insurance. The Medicaid appeals process provides redress for individual applicants and beneficiaries seeking eligibility for the …
Department of the Navy – Chief Information Officer – From Wounded Warrior to Civilian Employee – A Workplace Reference Guide for Managers and Supervisors: “This guide provides information on how to successfully support veterans who have transitioned to the civilian workplace. Several commands were instrumental in developing and editing content for the guide, which was …
“As part of the Office of Inspector Generals (OIG) nationwide effort to review the foreclosure practices of the five largest Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage servicers (Bank of America, Wells Fargo Bank, CitiMortgage, JP Morgan Chase, and Ally Financial, Incorporated) we reviewed [Bank of America, Wells Fargo Bank, CitiMortgage, JP Morgan Chase, and Ally Financial, …
“The March Empire State Manufacturing Survey indicates that manufacturing activity in New York State expanded at a moderate pace. The general business conditions index was little changed at 20.2, its fourth consecutive positive reading. The new orders and shipments indexes were both positive but slightly lower, indicating continued growth in orders and shipments, though at …
News release: “One out of five American consumers used their mobile phone to access their bank account, credit card, or other financial account in the 12 months ending in January 2012 and an additional one out of five indicated they would likely use mobile banking at some point in the future, according to a Federal …
Mediated Access: Journalists’ Perceptions of Federal Public Information Officer Media Control, by Carolyn Carlson, David Cuillier and Lindsey Tulkoff – Society of Professional Journalists, March 12, 2012 “On the eve of Sunshine Week 2012, a survey of journalists who cover federal agencies found that information flow in the United States is highly regulated by public …
News release: “NASA unveiled a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky today showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. WISE launched Dec. 14, 2009, and mapped the entire sky in 2010 with vastly better sensitivity than its predecessors. It …
Sea level rise, storms, and global warmings threat to the U.S. coast, March 14, 2012: “Sea level rise due to global warming has already doubled the annual risk of coastal flooding of historic proportions across widespread areas of the United States, according to a new report from Climate Central. By 2030, many locations are likely …
