Category «Government Documents»

Improvements in Patch and Configuration Management Controls Can Better Protect TSAs Wireless Network and Devices

Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, Improvements in Patch and Configuration Management Controls Can Better Protect TSAs Wireless Network and Devices (Redacted) OIG-11-99 July 2011 “Overall, TSA has implemented effective physical and logical security controls to protect its wireless network and devices. We did not detect any high-risk vulnerabilities on its wireless network …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Wireless Web

TRAC: SSA Disability Cases Continue to Climb Efforts to Reduce Backlog Insufficient

“The number of disability cases awaiting a hearing and decision by the Social Security Administration (SSA) continued to climb during the most recent quarter, from April 1 to June 30, 2011. Pending cases rose to 746,712 at the end of this period, up 7.5 percent from 694,417 one year ago. According to an analysis by …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

Delinquencies Rise, Foreclosures Fall in Latest MBA Mortgage Delinquency Survey

News release: “The delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties increased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 8.44 percent of all loans outstanding as of the end of the second quarter of 2011, an increase of 12 basis points from the first quarter of 2011, and a decrease of 141 basis points from …

Subjects: Government Documents

Santa Clara CA Uses 'Parking Lot Solar Trees' to Save Energy

Tracey Kaplan: “The frustrating search for a shady spot to park is about to get easier. But the new trees being planted at nine big parking lots in the South Bay aren’t leafy green saplings, they’re big silver specimens with 12-foot-tall trunks and broad steel canopies that will shield cars from the sun — and …

Subjects: Government Documents

Paper: Sovereign Funds are Helping Strike a New World Economic Balance

Sovereign Funds are Helping Strike a New World Economic Balance, Capapé, Javier and Santiso, Javier,(July 2, 2011). ESADEgeo Position Paper No. 18., ESADE Business School – ESADEgeo Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics “Sovereign funds and emerging markets. In 2010, Sovereign Funds (SF) invested over 60% of their portfolios in non-OECD nations. Over US $30 …

Subjects: Government Documents

USPS Broke by 2012?

Follow up to previous postings on the United States Postal Service, via Federal Times: “U.S. Postal Service leaders are poised to forgo legal obligations next month by skipping a $5.5 billion payment for retiree health care, but even that unprecedented step won’t buy the flailing mail carrier much time, one of its top officials said …

Subjects: Government Documents

Report: What Is the Average Retirement Age?

What Is the Average Retirement Age?, by Alicia H. Munnell, August 2011 – The Center for Retirement Research, Boston College “Since working longer is the key to a secure retirement for the vast majority of older Americans, it is useful to take a look at labor force trends for those under and over age 65 …

Subjects: Government Documents

Does the World Bank Have a Micro-Macro Paradox or Do the Data Deceive?

Howes, Stephen, Otor, Sabit Amum and Rogers, Cate L., Does the World Bank Have a Micro-Macro Paradox or Do the Data Deceive? (June 1, 2011). “In 1986, Mosely first drew attention to an apparent paradox in the performance of international aid. Microeconomic data from evaluations of aid financed projects showed a majority of projects were …

Subjects: Government Documents

U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2010

U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2010 “This analysis examines the level and drivers of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in 2010. After a historic decline in 2009, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rebounded in 2010, but still remain 358 million metric tons (6 percent) below the 2005 level. What happened to carbon dioxide emissions from energy use …

Subjects: Government Documents

EIA: Air conditioning in nearly 100 million U.S. homes

Air conditioning in nearly 100 million U.S. homes, RECS 2009 Release date: August 19, 2011 “Except in the temperate climate regions along the West coast, air conditioners (AC) are now standard equipment in most U.S. homes. As recently as 1993, only 68% of all occupied housing units had AC. The latest results from the …

Subjects: Government Documents

Freedom House Releases Special Report on 20th Anniversary of Failed Soviet Coup

“Freedom House launched a special report, Promise and Reversal: The Post-Soviet Landscape Twenty Years On, to mark the 20th anniversary of the failed Soviet coup of August 19, 1991. A retrospective essay examining changes in the state of political rights and civil liberties in the former Soviet Union over the last two decades, as well …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Freedom of Information, Government Documents

OMB Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Guidance

Jacob J. Lew, OMB, Director: “The President has defined our fiscal challenge as demonstrating that we can live within our means so that we can invest in job creation and economic growth now and in the long term. In April, he proposed a balanced framework for $4 trillion in deficit reduction that would put us …

Subjects: Government Documents

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