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OIG-11-41 – DHS Contracts Awarded Through Other Than Full and Open Competition During Fiscal Year 2010 “The department obligated about $1.3 billion for noncompetitive contracts in fiscal year 2010. Our review of 40 contract files, with a total reported value of more than $100 million, showed that the department generally improved acquisition management oversight by …
News release: “…the Justice Departments Bureau of Justice Statistics released the first in a series of data analysis tools that will enable the public to explore the recidivism patterns of persons involved with the criminal justice system. The new Prisoner Recidivism Analysis Tool allows users to conduct customized analyses of a large database describing the …
IAEA: “Based on information provided by Japanese authorities, the IAEA can confirm the following information about the status of Units 1, 2 and 3 at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Unit 1 is being powered by mobile power generators on site, and work continues to restore power to the plant. There is currently no power …
Charts include 2000-2009 Average Price and 201 Annual Average: “Crude oil, refining, distribution & marketing, and taxes are the four major cost components for estimates of the retail price of a gallon of gasoline. The portion of the gasoline price each of these components accounts for can vary significantly over time.”
Electric Power Monthly, March 2011 Edition, with data for December 2010 [this release links to PDF and xls and associated graphs] “Net generation in the United States was up 3.1 percent from December 2009 to December 2010. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that although temperatures in the contiguous United States as a …
Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Request: U.S. Government Accountability Office, GAO-11-453T, March 11, 2011 Flood Insurance: Public Policy Goals Provide a Framework for Reform, GAO-11-429T, March 11, 2011 Information Technology: Better Informed Decision Making Needed on Navy’s Next Generation Enterprise Network, GAO-11-150, March 11, 2011
http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/98-241_20110211.pdfhttp://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/98-241_20110211.pdf – Valerie Heitshusen, Analyst on Congress and the Legislative Process, February 11, 2011 “Committee Types and Roles Congressional Research Service Structure of the Committee System Congress divides its legislative, oversight, and internal administrative tasks among more than 200 committees and subcommittees. Within assigned areas, these functional subunits gather information; compare and evaluate legislative alternatives; …
News release: “Regional and state unemployment rates were generally unchanged in January. Twenty-four states recorded unemployment rate decreases, 10 states registered rate increases, and 16 states and the District of Columbia had no change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported [March 11, 2011]. Thirty-nine states and the District of Columbia posted unemployment rate decreases …
“There were 2.8 million job openings on the last business day of January 2011, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The job openings rate (2.1 percent), hires rate (2.8 percent), and total separations rate (2.7 percent) were little changed over the month. This release includes estimates of the number and rate of job …
BLS: Unemployment rate for Gulf War-era II veterans at 11.5 percent in 2010 The unemployment rate for veterans of Gulf War era II (September 2001 forward) was 11.5 percent in 2010. About 25 percent of Gulf War-era II veterans reported having a service-connected disability in July 2010, compared with about 13 percent of all veterans.”
Cancer Survivors – United States, 2007 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) March 11, 2011 / 60(09);269-272 “As a result of advances in early detection and treatment, cancer has become a curable disease for some and a chronic illness for others; persons living with a history of cancer are now described as cancer survivors rather …
Whither Europe after the crisis? Speech by Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the inauguration of the Academic Year 2011, IMT, Lucca, 11 March 2011 “The lesson to be drawn is that Europe is still evolving, growing, continuing on its path of integration. This is not happening, however, according …
