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“In the Presidential Proclamation for America Recycles Day, November 2010, the President established an Interagency Task Force on Electronics Stewardship. The President charged the Task Force with developing a national strategy for electronics stewardship, with CEQ, EPA, and GSA as the leads. The Task Force has released the National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship report, which …
Economic Growth and the Unemployment Rate, Linda Levine, Specialist in Labor Economics. October 28, 2011 “What appears to matter for a reduction in the unemployment rate is the rate of actual economic growth compared with the rate of growth in potential output (i.e., the output gap). Potential output is a measure of the economys capacity …
Federal Employees’ Compensation Act: Preliminary Observations on Fraud-Prevention Controls, GAO-12-212T November 9, 2011
Natural Disasters: From Destruction to Recovery. October 2011. The Liber8® Economic Information Newsletter, compiled by the librarians of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Research Library.
“The IAEA issued its latest status report on the situation in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, including information on environmental radiation monitoring, the status of workers and current conditions on-site at the plant.” “A detailed survey to compile a map of airborne radiation levels began Monday in Iitate village in Fukushima Prefecture, with the …
DOD Supply Chain: Preliminary Observations Indicate That Counterfeit Electronic Parts Can Be Found on Internet Purchasing Platforms, GAO-12-213T, Nov 8, 2011 Federal Bureau of Investigation: Actions Needed to Document Security Decisions and Address Issues with Condition of Headquarters Buildings, GAO-12-96, Nov 8, 2011 Financial Audit: Bureau of the Public Debt’s Fiscal Years 2011 and 2010 …
Follow up to related postings on Marcellus Shale and fracking, Oklahoma Geological Survey Open-File Report, OF1-2011, Examination of Possibly Induced Seismicity from Hydraulic Fracturing in the Eola Field, Garvin County, Oklahoma, August 2011 “On January 18, 2011, The Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS) received a phone call from a resident living south of Elmore City, in …
Report of the IAEA on Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran, November 8, 2011 NYT: U.N. Agency Says Iran Data Points to A-Bomb Work: “…inspectors had amassed over a thousand pages of documents, presumably leaked out of Iran. He said they showed …
“The Internal Revenue Code provides for dollar limitations on benefits and contributions under qualified retirement plans. Code §415 requires the limits to be adjusted annually for cost-of-living increases. The IRS announced on October 20, 2011 cost-of-living adjustments applicable to dollar limitations for pension plans and other items for tax year 2012.”
Unfinished Business? The WTO’s Doha Agenda – Editors: Will Martin and Aaditya Mattoo, November 2011 “The Doha Development Agenda (DDA) is in limbo. After ten years of hard work by skilled negotiators, seeking to identify the interests of different participants and to reconcile them into an overall agreement, no conclusion is in sight. A Doha-weary …
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, By Arloc Sherman, November 7, 2011 “Six temporary federal initiatives enacted in 2009 and 2010 to bolster the economy by lifting consumers incomes and purchases kept nearly 7 million Americans out of poverty in 2010, under an alternative measure of poverty that takes into account the impact of government …
“The October 2011 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. This summary is based on responses from 51 domestic banks and 22 U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks. Regarding lending standards, fewer …
