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Follow up to previous postings on sentencing guidelines, this ews release: “The United States Sentencing Commission voted unanimously today to give retroactive effect to its proposed permanent amendment to the federal sentencing guidelines that implements the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. Retroactivity of the amendment will become effective on November 1, 2011 – the same …
The State of America’s National Parks, June 2011 “The State of Americas National Parks is the culmination of ten years of research on the condition of natural and cultural resources within Americas national parks. The data for this report were gleaned from the Centers research on 80 national parks. This research uncovered many examples of …
Failed States Index 2011 – prepared by the Fund for Peace and published by FOREIGN POLICY of the world’s most vulnerable countries. “The new edition of the index draws on some 130,000 publicly available sources to analyze 177 countries and rate them on 12 indicators of pressure on the state during the year 2010 — …
IMF: Concluding Statement of the 2011 Article IV Mission to The United States of America, June 2011 “Policies must strike the right balance between exiting from extraordinary support and sustaining the recovery amid renewed headwinds. Fiscal policy consolidation needs to proceed as debt dynamics are unsustainable and losing fiscal credibility would be extremely damaging. However, …
Hate Crime, 2003-2009 – Lynn Langton, Michael Planty. June 16, 2011 – NCJ 234085 “Presents annual counts and rates of hate crime victimizations that occurred between 2003 and 2009, using data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). This report examines the victim’s suspicions about the type of bias that motivated the crime and the …
US Courts: “The annual cost of keeping someone imprisoned in a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility in fiscal year 2010 was $28,284.16. The annual cost of probation supervision was $3,938.35. Those figures work out to a daily cost of $77.49 for incarceration of a convicted criminal, and $10.79 for supervised release. The daily cost of …
Department of Defense: Further Actions Needed to Institutionalize Key Business System Modernization Management Controls, GAO-11-684, June 29, 2011 Diplomatic Security: Expanded Missions and Inadequate Facilities Pose Critical Challenges to Training Efforts, GAO-11-780T, June 29, 2011 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: IRS Should Expand Its Strategic Approach to Implementation, GAO-11-719, June 29, 2011 Pension Benefit …
College Affordability and Transparency Center: “Here you will find information about tuition and net prices at postsecondary institutions. The site highlights institutions with high and low tuition and fees as well as high and low net prices (the price of attendance minus grant and scholarship aid). It also shows institutions where tuition and fees and …
National Strategy for Counterterrorism, June 2011 “This National Strategy for Counterterrorism articulates our governments approach to countering terrorism and identifies the range of tools critical to this Strategys success. This Strategy builds on groundwork laid by previous strategies and many aspects of the United States Governments enduring approach to countering terrorism. At the same time, …
News release: “The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday issued a final rule establishing standards for debit card interchange fees and prohibiting network exclusivity arrangements and routing restrictions. This rule, Regulation II (Debit Card Interchange Fees and Routing), is required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Debit card interchange fees are established …
Upper Big Branch Report – “On April 13, 2010, Davitt McAteer was asked by former WV Governor Joe Manchin, III to form an independent investigation panel to investigate the cause of the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion and to offer recommendations to prevent future explosions. The panel has issued its final report, Upper Big Branch …
World Economic Outlook Update, June 17, 2011 “Activity is slowing down temporarily, and downside risks have increased again. The global expansion remains unbalanced. Growth in many advanced economies is still weak, considering the depth of the recession. In addition, the mild slowdown observed in the second quarter of 2011 is not reassuring. Growth in most …
