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The Role of Local Food Systems in U.S. Farm Policy, January 24, 2012 “Sales of locally produced foods comprise a small but growing part of U.S. agricultural sales. USDA estimates that farm-level value of local food sales totaled about $4.8 billion in 2008, or about 1.6% of the U.S. market for agricultural products. An estimated …
Statistical commentary on preliminary locational and consolidated banking statistics at end-September 2011 Locational and consolidated banking statistics as at end-September 2011, preliminary data in PDF format, CSV files and the BIS WebStats interactive query tool “In the third quarter of 2011, after adjusting for the effects of the depreciation of most currencies against the US …
Global Risks 2012 Seventh Edition, An Initiative of the Risk Response Network Now in its seventh edition, the reports research methodology has been significantly revamped. Data and analysis are based on a newly designed survey covering a meaningfully expanded set of 50 global risks across five categories. The assessments of these risks more than doubled …
Cancer Screening United States, 2010, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, January 27, 2012 / 61(03);41-45 “Each year, approximately 350,000 persons are diagnosed with breast, cervical, or colorectal cancer in the United States, and nearly 100,000 die from these diseases (1). The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening tests for each of these …
Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act – Observations on Implementation, GAO-12-275R, January 27, 2012 “According to information provided by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and our survey of the Inspectors General (IG), five civilian agencies, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Energy, the Corporation …
News release: “Real gross domestic product – the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States – increased at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 (that is, from the third quarter to the fourth quarter), according to the “advance” estimate released by …
International Trade: Rules of Origin. Vivian C. Jones, Specialist in International Trade and Finance; Michael F. Martin, Analyst in Asian Trade and Finance, January 5, 2012 “Determining the country of origin of a product is important for properly assessing tariffs, enforcing trade remedies (such as antidumping and countervailing duties) or quantitative restrictions (tariff quotas), and …
2011 Small Business Profiles for the States and Territories “The economic condition of small businesses in the United States is captured in the latest edition of the Small Business Profiles for the States and Territories. This annual publication from the Office of Advocacy provides information on the demographics of business ownership, employment, industry composition, and …
TRAC: “The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during October 2011 the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to enforce immigration and customs laws accounted for 59% of all federal criminal prosecutions. The government reported 8,038 new prosecutions for these DHS matters as compared with a total of 13,628 from all sources. According …
GAO Mission and Operations – Summary of GAO’s Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2011, GAO-12-5SP, January 26, 2012 Medicare Advantage – CMS Should Improve the Accuracy of Risk Score Adjustments for Diagnostic Coding Practices, GAO-12-51, January 12, 2012 Financial Audit – Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Fiscal Years 2011 and 2010 Financial Statements [Reissued on …
Large Exposures Regime Groups of Connected Clients and Connected Counterparties, Financial Services Authority, January 26, 2012 “To propose new guidance on the treatment of LE to structured finance vehicles. This guidance builds on the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) guidelines on the implementation of the revised LE regime published in December 2009. We aim …
Health and Access to Care Among Employed and Unemployed Adults: United States, 20092010, Key data: “In 20092010, 48.1% of unemployed adults aged 1864 years had health insurance compared with 81.4% of employed adults; among the insured, a higher proportion of the unemployed had public insurance. Unemployed adults had poorer mental and physical health than employed …
