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“With renewed attention to the nations long-term budget deficit and the national debt, proposed changes to Medicare and other federal entitlement programs could significantly affect health coverage and spending for millions of older and disabled Americans. These three data spotlights from the Kaiser Family Foundation provide new information on out-of-pocket health care spending among the …
Opening keynote address as delivered on April 4 by Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator as part of the First National Climate Assessment Federal Advisory Committee Meeting in Washington, DC. “In the U.S., climate-related changes are being documented: more frequent extreme weather events, longer growing seasons, shifting …
“This report – the eighteenth annual report – presents the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s latest estimates of emissions for carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and other greenhouse gases. For this report, activity data on coal and natural gas consumption and electricity sales and losses by sector were obtained from the January 2011 Monthly Energy Review …
Preventing Nuclear Meltdown: Daniel Kaufmann, Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Veronika Penciakova, Research Assistant, Global Economy and Development, The Brookings Institution “Many wonder whether Japans nuclear disaster could have been averted. The embattled operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), has borne the brunt of criticism; its numerous failures over …
Disclosures Effects: Wikileaks and Transparency, Mark Fenster University of Florida – Fredric G. Levin College of Law “Constitutional, criminal, and administrative laws regulating government transparency, and the theories that support them, rest on the assumption that the disclosure of information has transformative effects: disclosure can inform, enlighten, and energize the public, or it can create …
“The Vault is our new electronic reading room, containing more than 2,000 documents that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office. Included here are more than 25 new files that have been released to the public but never added to this …
What are the furloughs: “The Disability Determination Services (DDS) are state agencies responsible for developing medical evidence and making disability determinations. The Federal Government fully funds the DDS budgets through the Social Security Administration (SSA). The current economic climate presents budget-balancing challenges for many states. As a result, some states are furloughing state employees. A …
Employment Situation, March 2011: “Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 216,000 in March, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 8.8 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in professional and business services, health care, leisure and hospitality, and mining. Employment in manufacturing continued to trend up. The number of …
Best Practices Study of Social Media Records Policies, ACT-IAC Collaboration & Transformation (C&T) Shared Interest Group (SIG), March 2011 “Government agencies are increasingly incorporating Web 2.0 collaborative technologies, also known as social media, such as wikis and blogs, in conducting agency business. Federal recordkeeping requirements include developing and implementing policies for Federal records and cover …
Fact Sheet – Report to the Congress, March 2011: “As required by the Congress, each March the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission reviews Medicare payment policies and makes recommendations. The 2011 report includes payment policy recommendations for ten payment systems: hospital inpatient, hospital outpatient, physician and other health professional, ambulatory surgical center, outpatient dialysis, skilled nursing, …
News release: “[March 31, 2011], Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero opened The Watergate Gallery, a permanent exhibition at the National Archives Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. This new exhibition, designed to help todays visitor make sense of the web of personalities, actions and intentions at the heart of the Watergate scandal, …
“This is the official YouTube Channel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In addition to these video recordings, you may find audio recordings of our hearings on our internet site at http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov.”
