Cost Estimate for H.R. 1473, DOD and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act of 2011
Cost Estimate for H.R. 1473, The Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act of 2011 – April 12, 2011
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New GAO Reports: Financial Literacy, Information Technology, Tax Administration
Financial Literacy: The Federal Government’s Role in Empowering Americans to Make Sound Financial Choices, GAO-11-504T, April 12, 2011 Information Technology: Continued Improvements in Investment Oversight and Management Can Yield Billions in Savings, GAO-11-511T, April 12, 2011 Tax Administration: Preliminary Information on Selected Foreign Practices That May Provide Useful Insights, GAO-11-540T, April 12, 2011
National Archives Announces Newly-Identified Papers of Walt Whitman
Famous poet’s writings as a Federal employee shed new light on his life and work: “The National Archives today announced the identification of nearly 3,000 Walt Whitman documents written during his service as a Federal government employee. This trove of information–conclusively identified as Whitman’s papers for the first time by University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) scholar …
FTC, CFTC Agree to Share Information on Energy Investigations
News release: “As part of their ongoing efforts to keep markets that they oversee open and fair for American consumers, the Federal Trade Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that they signed an agreement to foster further cooperation between the two agencies by helping them share nonpublic information. The FTC and CFTC …
What's the Wage Gap in Your State?
National Partnership for Women & Families – What’s the Wage Gap in Your State? – Use this map to download an equal pay fact sheet for your state.
BLS: A Profile of the Working Poor, 2009
A Profile of the Working Poor, 2009 – March 2011 “In 2009, according to the Census Bureau, about 43.6 million people, or 14.3 percent of the Nations population, lived at or below the official poverty level.1 Although the poor were primarily children and adults who had not participated in the labor force during the year, …
Online OECD Employment Database
“About one in three people of working age does not have a job in the OECD area. Faced with ageing populations, increasing employment rate has become crucial. And a further key challenge is to help companies and citizens to cope successfully with rapid technological change and globalisation. Our online Employment database allows to assess labour …
Fukushima Nuclear Accident Update
“The Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) today issued a new provisional rating for the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the IAEA International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES). The nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi is now rated as a level 7 “Major Accident” on INES. Level 7 is the …
European Commission releases third report on progress in addressing water scarcity and droughts in Europe
“In the run up to a major water policy review in 2012, the third and final report presents the water management measures introduced by Member States to tackle water scarcity and droughts and highlights the areas for further action. The report confirms that water scarcity and drought is not limited to Mediterranean countries. Apart from …
Manufacturing compensation costs in China, 2008
“Even as China ascends as a major economic player in the global economy, its position in the international landscape of labor costs has not changed dramatically. As measured in U.S. dollars, Chinese hourly labor compensation costs in manufacturing were roughly 4 percent of those in the United States and about 3 percent of those in …
TRAC: New Website Tracks FOIA Withholding Challenges
“Details about every new court challenge to the withholding of information by the Obama Administration are now available on a new website developed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). Designed to bring more transparency to FOIA withholding decisions, the new site — http://FOIAproject.org — gives the American people a way to track all instances …
BLS: College Enrollment and Work Activity of 2010 High School Graduates
BLS news release, April 8, 2011: “In October 2010, 68.1 percent of 2010 high school graduates were enrolled in colleges or universities, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Recent high school graduates not enrolled in college in October 2010 were more likely than enrolled graduates to be working or looking for work (76.6 …
