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Follow up to previous postings on obesity, via the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, a new report – Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies: “Even the youngest children in the United States are at risk of becoming obese. Today, almost 10 percent of infants and toddlers carry excess weight for their length, and slightly …
Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research “Chronic pain affects an estimated 116 million American adultsmore than the total affected by heart disease, cancer, and diabetes combined. Pain also costs the nation up to $635 billion each year in medical treatment and lost productivity. The 2010 Patient Protection and …
News release: “The adolescent birth rate declined for the second consecutive year, preterm births declined for the third consecutive year, adolescent injury deaths declined, and fewer 12th graders binge drank, according to the federal government’s annual statistical report on the well-being of the nation’s children and youth. However, a higher proportion of 8th graders used …
NPR: “When you are the nation’s largest owner of foreclosed homes, even little things can get expensive fast. Such is the case for mortgage giant Fannie Mae, which as of March 31 had a mind-boggling 153,000 foreclosed homes on its books…In just the first quarter of this year, Fannie racked up $488 million in foreclosure-related …
Education Week: “Maryland has become the first state in the country to require students to be “environmentally literate” in order to graduate from high school. The June 2011 vote by the Maryland board of education requires that students get a “comprehensive, multi-disciplinary environmental education” before receiving a diploma. Districts will have to develop plans for …
Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era, Suzanne Mettler. Perspectives on Politics, September 2010 | Vol. 8/No. 3 “President Barack Obama came into office with a social welfare policy agenda that aimed to reconstitute what can be understood as the submerged state: a conglomeration of existing federal policies …
Social Security Statements: Observations on SSA’s Plans for the Social Security Statement, GAO-11-787T, July 8, 2011 Nextgen Air Transportation System: Mechanisms for Collaboration and Technology Transfer Could Be Enhanced to More Fully Leverage Partner Agency and Industry Resources, GAO-11-604, June 30, 2011 Challenges to the Transportation, Sale, and Use of Intermediate Ethanol Blends, GAO-11-513, June …
Long-Term Implications of the 2012 Future Years Defense Program: Testimony before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, July 7, 2011 “In most years, the Department of Defense (DoD) provides a five- or six-year plan, called the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP), associated with the budget that it submits to the Congress. Because …
Monthly Budget Review – July 8, 2011 “CBO estimates that the Treasury Department will report a deficit of $973 billion for the first nine months of fiscal year 2011, $31 billion less than the $1,004 billion deficit incurred through June 2010. Outlays are about 4 percent higher and revenues are about 8.5 percent higher than …
News release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has prepared an important report, Keeping Raw Sewage and Contaminated Stormwater Out of the Publics Water, to answer commonly asked questions about combined sewer overflows. To see an illustration of how serious a problem this is in Brooklyn, go to here.”
News release: “…the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today finalized additional Clean Air Act protections that will slash hundreds of thousands of tons of smokestack emissions that travel long distances through the air leading to soot and smog, threatening the health of hundreds of millions of Americans living downwind. The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule will …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today told Congress it is taking steps to enhance the agencys longstanding program to review rules and guides, which will promote greater efficiency, transparency, and public participation. The FTC announced several initiatives to ensure its regulations are up-to-date, effective, and not overly burdensome, including: updating its schedule of rule …
