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Long-Term Care Insurance – Carrier Interest in the Federal Program, Changes to Its Actuarial Assumptions, and OPM Oversight, GAO-11-630. August 10, 2011 “Since 2002, the federal government has offered long-term care insurance to its employees, retirees, and certain others through the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP). Enrollees pay the full cost of their …
News release: “The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published a Consultation Paper (CP) and Discussion Paper (DP) on its proposals for Recovery and Resolution Plans (RRP), required of financial institutions. The publication also covers policy proposals aimed at reducing the impact of firms’ failure in relation to their investment business client money and custody assets …
EIA: “On July 7, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the final version of the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR). The CSAPR is intended to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from power plants in the eastern half of the United States by imposing state-level caps on emissions and facilitating …
The Atlantic – Derek Thompson: “The collapse of the middle class is greater than the Great Recession. But what’s really behind our 30-year crash? One statistic, often ignored, begins to provide a clearer picture. It’s the productivity, stupid.” “We know where the jobs are going — to machines, software, and foreign workers. We also know …
“In the first half of 2011, state legislators introduced 1,592 bills and resolutions relating to immigrants and refugees in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. The number of bill introductions is an increase of 16 percent compared to the first half of 2010, when 46 states considered 1,374 bills and resolutions pertaining to immigrants. As …
News release includes links to data, tables, charts: “EIA expects the U.S. average refiner acquisition cost of crude oil will rise from $100 per barrel in 2011 to $107 per barrel in 2012 as global spare production capacity and inventories continue to decline. This forecast assumes that U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) grows by …
Norway Country Analysis Brief: “Norway provided 12 percent of OECD Europe’s crude oil imports and 18 percent of its natural gas imports in 2010. Norway is the largest oil producer and exporter in western Europe Norway is the second largest exporter of natural gas after Russia, and ranks fifth in world natural gas production.” Read …
Personal Income for Metropolitan Areas, 2010: “Personal income rose in 2010 in all but four of the nations 366 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Personal income in the metropolitan portion of the United States rose 2.9 percent in 2010 after falling 1.9 percent in …
Acquisition Planning – Opportunities to Build Strong Foundations for Better Services Contracts, GAO-11-672, August 9, 2011 Information Security – State Has Taken Steps to Implement a Continuous Monitoring Application, but Key Challenges Remain, GAO-11-149, August 8, 2011
Principles of Effective State Sentencing and Corrections Policy – A Report of the NCSL Sentencing and Corrections Work Group, August 2011 “The issues addressed by the NCSL work group reflect the important role of state legislatures in enacting policies that manage prison populations and costs, address offender and community needs, and contribute to the safe …
Giant Fish Blenders: How Power Plants Kill Fish & Damage Our Waterways, Sierra Club, August 2011 “A power plant with once-through cooling draws hundreds of millions, in some cases billions, of gallons of water each day from the closest lake, river or ocean and indiscriminately sucks in whatever aquatic life is near the intake pipe. …
News release: “Today, President Obama [met] with industry officials to discuss the first-of-their-kind fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas pollution standards for work trucks, buses, and other heavy duty vehicles and to thank them for their leadership in finalizing a successful national program for these vehicles. This meeting marked the administrations announcement of the standards, which …
