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Forest Service: Continued Work Needed to Address Persistent Management Challenges, GAO-11-423T, March 10, 2011 Indian Country Criminal Justice: Departments of the Interior and Justice Should Strengthen Coordination to Support Tribal Courts, GAO-11-252, February 14, 2011
“The new data.gov.au site has now been released and I invite you to explore, access and reuse the data available on the site. The release of public sector information in the form of datasets allows the commercial, research and community sectors to add value to government data in new, innovative and exciting ways. Data.gov.au plays …
Economic Projections from the January FOMC Meeting, Brent Meyer – Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland “Most participants continued to judge the uncertainty accompanying their projections for all forecasted variables as elevated when compared to historical norms. However, the Committee did change its assessment of the risks to its growth and inflation projections. The majority of …
News release: “Private industry employers spent an average of $27.75 per hour worked for total employee compensation in December 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries averaged $19.64 per hour worked and accounted for 70.8 percent of these costs, while benefits averaged $8.11 and accounted for the remaining 29.2 percent. …
News release: “Manufacturing hourly compensation costs in the United States in 2009 were lower than in 12 European countries and Australia, but higher than in 20 other countries covered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. hourly compensation costs rose about 4 percent from the previous year to $33.53. The 8 countries with the highest …
UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) – Women on boards February 2011: “At the current rate of change it will take over 70 years to achieve gender-balanced boardrooms in the UK…The low proportion of women holding directorships suggests British business is not using all of the skills and talents of the workforce effectively. …
“Welcome to the new home for consumer product safety reports. Use our new online form to submit a Report on an unsafe product. Register your business with the new Business Portal to review and respond to Reports. Reports and manufacturer comments during this Soft Launch will be used by CPSC, but they will not be …
News release: “At a hearing today in front of the Senate Commerce Committee on the Magnuson-Stevens Act, Assistant NOAA Administrator for Fisheries Eric Schwaab said that the U.S. is making good progress toward meeting the mandate to end domestic overfishing. We know that nearly $31 billion in sales and as many as 500,000 jobs are …
Department of State: Additional Steps Are Needed to Improve Strategic Planning and Evaluation of Training for State Personnel GAO-11-438T, March 08, 2011 Department of State: Additional Steps Are Needed to Improve Strategic Planning and Evaluation of Training for State Personnel GAO-11-241, January 25, 2011
Four Observations about the Federal Budget, March 2011 – CBO Director Doug Elmendorf’s presentation to the National Association for Business Economics: “The gap between spending and revenues is likely to remain very large even after we return to normal economic conditions. Fiscal policy cannot be put on a sustainable path just by eliminating waste and …
CBO Monthly Budget Review – March 2011, Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for January and the Daily Treasury Statements for February Summary: “CBO estimates that the federal government incurred a budget deficit of $642 billion for the first five months of fiscal year 2011, $10 billion less than the shortfall recorded in the same …
Via the White House, Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being “In support of the Council on Women and Girls, the Office of Management and Budget and the Economics and Statistics Administration within the Department of Commerce worked together to create the Women in America report which, for the first time in recent …
