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Prepregnancy Contraceptive Use Among Teens with Unintended Pregnancies Resulting in Live Births Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), 20042008, January 20, 2012 “Approximately 400,000 teens aged 1519 years give birth every year in the United States, and the teen birth rate remains the highest in the developed world. Teen childbearing is a public health …
Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report, January 19, 2012: “In the week ending January 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 352,000, a decrease of 50,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 402,000. The 4-week moving average was 379,000, a decrease of 3,500 from the previous week’s revised average of 382,500. The …
“Bizjournals On Numbers compared the educational attainment of men and women in 942 metropolitan and micropolitan areas, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 American Community Survey. The percentage of men possessing four-year college degrees is higher than the comparable percentage of women in 485 markets. But women hold the educational edge in 431 …
DOD Joint Operational Access Concept (JOAC) News release: “Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “The [concept] outlines how we will confront emerging anti-access/area denial [referred to by military members as A2/AD] threats by state and non-state enemies across the globe,” the chairman noted in his blog…A2/AD is not new, …
Lessons from Medicare’s Demonstration Projects on Disease Management, Care Coordination, and Value-Based Payment – January 18, 2012. “In the past two decades, Medicare has conducted two broad categories of demonstrations aimed at enhancing the quality of health care and improving the efficiency of health care delivery in its fee-for-service program: Disease management and care coordination …
News release:”The FDIC today approved a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) that would require certain large insured depository institutions to conduct annual capital-adequacy stress tests. The proposal, to implement section 165(i)(2) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, would apply to FDIC-insured state nonmember banks and FDIC-insured state-chartered savings associations with total …
News release: “The OECD area unemployment rate was stable at 8.2% in November 2011, unchanged since August. The rate has hovered at this level since January 2011. However, stability at the aggregate level masks different national situations. The Euro areas unemployment rate remained at 10.3% in November the highest rate recorded since the start …
“The NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework offers a working taxonomy and common lexicon that can be overlaid onto any organization’s existing occupational structure. Although much work has gone into this framework, we need to ensure that it can be adopted and used across the nation. We are actively seeking to refine this framework with input from …
“Wind Powering America (a DOE program initiative) publishes an onshore wind resource map for the United States, at 80 meters above ground and with resolution down to 2.5 meters. This map was updated in March 2010, the first comprehensive update of U.S. wind energy potential since 1993. The 2010 update to the wind resource map …
Proposed EU Commission Financial Transaction Tax Impact Analysis on Foreign Exchange Markets. Oliver Wyman, January 2012: “The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of the proposed EU Financial Transaction Tax on European FX markets. We aim to quantify the impacts of the FTT on FX cash and derivative markets, both in terms …
2012 Progress Report: “In the nearly two years since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, all States have taken some action to implement health reform. For example, forty-four States are participating in the new premium rate review system where insurers must justify the rationale for any double-digit insurance premium increase. And 28 …
Credit Rating Agencies – Alternative Compensation Models for Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations, GAO-12-240, Jan 18, 2012 Dodd-Frank Act – Hybrid Capital Instruments and Small Institution Access to Capital, GAO-12-237, Jan 18, 2012 Real Estate Appraisals – Appraisal Subcommittee Needs to Improve Monitoring Procedures, GAO-12-147, Jan 18, 2012 Real Estate Appraisals – Survey of State …
