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How Did the Great Recession Affect New York States Public Schools? – Rajashri Chakrabarti and Elizabeth Setren “Across the nation, state and local governments saw declining revenue from income, property, and sales taxes after the onset of the recession and the bursting of the housing bubble in 2007. According to the CoreLogic Home Price Index, …
News release: “According to NOAA scientists, 2011 was a record-breaking year for climate extremes, as much of the United States faced historic levels of heat, precipitation, flooding and severe weather, while La Niña events at both ends of the year impacted weather patterns at home and around the world. NOAAs annual analysis of U.S. and …
NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities: Restoring NASA’s Technological Edge and Paving the Way for a New Era in Space, January 2012 “NASA has received the National Research Council (NRC) report “NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities,” which provides the agency with findings and recommendations on where best to invest in technologies needed to enable …
CRS – Border Security: Immigration Enforcement Between Ports of Entry, Marc R. Rosenblum, Specialist in Immigration Policy, January 6, 2012 “Twenty-five years after the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA, P.L. 99-603) marked the beginning of the modern era in border enforcement, this report reviews recent enforcement efforts, takes stock of the current …
Fatally Flawed: Five Years of Gun-walking in Arizona, Report of the Minority Staff, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, January 2012 “…this report tells the story of how misguided gunwalking operations originated in 2006 as ATFs Phoenix Field Division devised a strategy to forgo prosecutions …
The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022, January 31, 2012 “Each January, CBO prepares baseline budget projections spanning the next 10 years. Those projections are not a forecast of future events; rather, they are intended to provide a benchmark against which potential policy changes can be measured. Therefore, as specified in law, …
Treasury Bills and/or Central Bank Bills for Absorbing Surplus Liquidity: The Main Considerations, Obert Nyawata. January 2012 “This paper discusses the challenging question of whether central banks should use treasury bills or central bank bills for draining excess liquidity in the banking system. While recognizing that there are practical reasons for using central bank bills, …
“Towards a positive legacy of a terrible crisis: the title of the editorial by OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría sets the tone in this second annual OECD Yearbook 2012. The 168 page volume features articles by renowned guests from government, business, trade unions and civil society who join OECD experts to take stock of the crisis …
Weathering financial crises: bond markets in Asia and the Pacific, BIS Papers No 63, January 2012 “The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) jointly organised a high-level seminar on “The development of regional capital markets” in Yokohama, Japan, on 21-22 November 2011. The seminar brought together senior officials of 12 …
Implementation of the Consumer Credit Directive: “The study examines the state and the main difficulties of the implementation of Directive 2008/48/EC on credit agreements for consumers using the examples of fourteen Member States of the European Union. The analysis focuses on fully harmonised aspects of the Directive as well as on the provisions for which …
“The January 2012 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices addressed changes in the supply of, and demand for, bank loans to businesses and households over the past three months. The survey included three sets of special questions: the first set asked banks about lending to firms with European exposures; the second set …
Antibiotics – FDA Needs to Do More to Ensure That Drug Labels Contain Up-to-Date Information, GAO-12-218, January 31, 2012 Department of Energy – Additional Opportunities Exist to Streamline Support Functions at NNSA and Office of Science Sites, GAO-12-255, January 31, 2012 Homeland Defense – Continued Actions Needed to Improve Management of Air Sovereignty Alert Operations, …
