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Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization – G.17, November 16, 2011: “Industrial production expanded 0.7 percent in October after having declined 0.1 percent in September. Previously, industrial production was reported to have gained 0.2 percent in September; most of this revision resulted from lower estimated output for mining. Factory output increased 0.5 percent in October after …
A Year Later, Little Progress on Digitizing Legislative Documents, Daniel Schuman: “A year ago today, Congress’ Joint Committee on Printing directed that three sets of vital legislative and legal documents be published online “as quickly as possible.” We’ve reviewed how well that order was implemented, and the results are not encouraging. Of the three documents, …
OTC derivatives market activity in the first half of 2011, 16 November 2011: “Key developments in the first half of 2011: “After an increase of only 3% in the second half of 2010, total notional amounts outstanding of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives rose by 18% in the first half of 2011, reaching $708 trillion by the …
“The Best Places to Work to Work in the Federal Government® rankings are the most comprehensive and authoritative rating and analysis of employee satisfaction and commitment in the federal government. The 2011 rankings are the sixth edition of this ongoing series, following the 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2010 versions…The Best Places to Work rankings …
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the United States: Facts and Figures “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has collected and reported data on the generation and disposal of waste in the United States for more than 30 years. We use this information to measure the success of waste reduction and recycling programs across the country. …
Legislative History of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act Public Law 109-435, James I. Campbell Jr., September 2007. Includes a summary of the evolution of the bill over 10 years, the public law, congressional debates, most recent committee reports (and related bills), and presidential signing statement. 1077 pages.
News release: “The percentage of people who changed residences between 2010 and 2011 – 11.6 percent – was the lowest recorded rate since the Current Population Survey began collecting statistics on the movement of people in the United States in 1948, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. The rate, which was 20.2 percent in 1985, …
News release: “In a new report, The Economic Impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative on Ten Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States, Analysis Group researchers have quantified the economic benefits from implementation of a multistate regional greenhouse gas initiative. The study, which will be the focus of an article in The Electricity Journal (December 2011), examines …
Testimony, Congressional Budget Office, Statement of Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director – Policies for Increasing Economic Growth and Employment in 2012 and 2013, before the Committee on the Budget, United States Senate, November 15, 2011 “CBO expects real GDP to grow in the vicinity of 1½ percent this calendar year (as measured by the change between …
Annual Report to Congress Regarding the Financial Status of the FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund Fiscal Year 2011, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, November 15, 2011 “The findings of independent actuarial reviews performed at the close of FY 2011 indicate that the MMI Fund remains actuarially sound, though there continue to be significant …
News release: “President Obama signed Executive Order 13556, “Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI),” and designated the National Archives and Records Administration as the Executive Agent “to implement this order and oversee agency actions to ensure compliance with this order.” On November 4, 2011, as required by this Executive Order, the National Archives Controlled Unclassified Information Office …
Trends and Implications of Climate Change for National and International Security, November 2011 “This report begins with an overview of the impacts of climate change over recent decades while recognizing uncertainty about the pace of future changes. It examines the political consequences of climate change as it relates to national and international security, with special …
