Treasury news release, 9/8/2011: “Terrorist organizations rely on financing and support networks to sustain operations and launch attacks. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) has developed a sophisticated and comprehensive approach – including intelligence analysis, sanctions administration and enforcement, financial regulatory action, policy expertise, and outreach to the …

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“A new report released by the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) shows that two years into the “recovery” from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, 1.4 million, or one in every seven, New York workers is unemployed, under-employed or has given up looking for work. Long-term unemployment is at record levels. Half of the unemployed have been …

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The Subprime Crisis: Is Government Housing Policy to Blame? Robert B. Avery and Kenneth P. Brevoort, 2011-36 “Abstract: A growing literature suggests that housing policy, embodied by the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and the affordable housing goals of the government sponsored enterprises, may have caused the subprime crisis. The conclusions drawn in this literature, for …

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Short-Term Energy Outlook, September 7, 2011 Release: “EIA’s economic growth assumptions have been lowered substantially compared with last month’s Outlook. This forecast assumes that U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) grows by 1.5 percent this year and 1.9 percent next year compared with 2.4 percent and 2.6 percent, respectively, in the previous Outlook. World oil-consumption-weighted …

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Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Economic Club of Minnesota Luncheon, Minneapolis, Minnesota – September 8, 2011 – The U.S. Economic Outlook: “Notably, the housing sector has been a significant driver of recovery from most recessions in the United States since World War II, but this time–with an overhang of distressed and foreclosed properties, tight …

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“Andrew A. Beveridge has taught sociology at Queens College since 1981, done demographic analyses for the New York Times since 1993, and been in charge of Gotham Gazette’s demographics topic page since 2000. The opinions expressed are his alone”. A Demographic Portrait Of The Victims In 10048 10 Years Later: Enumerating the Loss at Ground …

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Background Document for Meeting of Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs and Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee, September 9, 2011: “This meeting is being convened to review and discuss the available data regarding the long term (greater than 3 – 5 years) use of bisphosphonates for the treatment and/or prevention of osteoporosis. In …

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Arctic sea ice near record lows, September 6, 2011: “Arctic sea ice extent averaged for August 2011 reached the second lowest level for the month in the 1979 to 2011 satellite record. Both the Northwest Passage and the Northern Sea route appear to be open. Throughout August, sea ice extent tracked near the record lows …

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Energy Policy Act of 2005 – BLM’s Use of Section 390 Categorical Exclusions for Oil and Gas Development, GAO-11-941T, September 9, 2011 Opportunities for Improvements in the Congressional Award Foundation’s Internal Controls and Accounting Procedures, GAO-11-825R, September 9, 2011 Tax Whistleblowers – Incomplete Data Hinders IRS’s Ability to Manage Claim Processing Time and Enhance External …

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Securing the Future: Management Lessons of 9/11, published 08/29/2011 “In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush supported and Congress approved two of the most significant government reorganizations in decades—the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). To …

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