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News release: “The Federal Trade Commission issued a staff report, Using FACTA Remedies: An FTC Staff Report on a Survey of Experience of Identity Theft Victims, summarizing the results of a survey of identity theft victims who were asked to describe their experiences dealing with consumer reporting agencies and, more generally, exercising their rights under …
News release: “As the mild winter of 2012 yields to an early spring, the Great Lakes are relatively free of ice. However, as longtime residents of the region know, ice cover on the lakes can vary dramatically from one winter to the next. Researchers at the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab (GLERL) have been …
New Small Firms Account for a Disproportionate Share of Net Job Growth, March 2012: “Small firms, widely believed to promote job growth, both create and eliminate jobs at higher rates than large firms do. Although small firms account for a disproportionate share of net job growth, that greater growth is driven primarily by new small …
New Small Firms Account for a Disproportionate Share of Net Job Growth, March 2012 “Although the most recent recession ended more than two years ago, the recovery has been slow and the economy remains in a severe slump. From December 2007 (when the recession began) to February 2010 (when the number of people on business …
DHS – Classified National Security Information Program for State, Local, Tribal and Private Sector Entities [STLPS] – Implementing Directive, February 2012 “Under the authority of the Order, and through this implementing directive, a governance and oversight structure are put in place that will serve to instill and promote the uniform application of security standards within …
“In past months, The Hamilton Project has examined the toll the Great Recession has taken on various segments of the population through its employment analysislooking at the plight of men, women, the young and the old. These groups have all been impacted in different ways, with young workers having been particularly hard hit and leaving …
BIS Quarterly Review March 2012 – International banking and financial market developments: “The BIS Quarterly Review for March 2012, released today, discusses global impact of European bank deleveraging. The March issue also provides highlights from the latest BIS data on international banking and financial activity.”
Follow up to previous postings on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, two new articles from The Economist as follows: The death of trust – Last years triple disasterearthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown has shattered Japanese faith in many of the countrys institutions The dream that failed – A year after Fukushima, the future for nuclear …
Department of Defense – Operational Energy Strategy: Implementation Plan, March 2013 “Pursuant to title 10, U.S.C., section 138c, the Department of Defense (DoD) published the Operational Energy Strategy on June 14, 2011, to transform the way U.S. Armed Forces consume energy in military operations. The Strategy sets the direction for operational energy use within the …
LLRX.com – FOIA Facts: FOIA as Golf – Recent reports of both the Department of Justice and others about the administrations FOIA overall program have led FOIA expert Scott A. Hodes to imagine FOIA as golf. President Obama is currently on the fairway of the ninth hole. Voters will let him know in November if …
Heads They Win, Tails We Lose – How Corporations Corrupt Science at the Publics Expense. The Scientific Integrity Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists, February 2012 “The first chapter of this report explores the numerous methods corporate interests employ to inappropriately influence how the federal government uses science to make decisions. The second chapter …
Virginia Coalition for Open Government: “We are a nonprofit alliance formed to promote expanded access to government records, meetings and other proceedings at the state and local level. Our efforts are focused solely on local/state information access. While we do some lobbying (within limits imposed by IRS rules), our primary work is educational. The Coalition …
