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News release: “On the heels of the recent expiration of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) on October 3, the U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced the release of a Two-year Retrospective report on TARP. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the steps that Treasury took under TARP to contain a growing financial …
News release: “The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods increased 0.4 percent in September, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This advance followed a 0.4- percent rise in August and a 0.2-percent increase in July. At the earlier stages of processing, prices received by manufacturers of intermediate goods moved up 0.5 …
News release: “As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) RE-Powering Americas Land initiative, the agency has developed a two-year draft management plan to advance the development of renewable energy on potentially contaminated land and mining sites. The draft plan describes activities EPA can take to build upon the progress that the initiative has …
News release: “The nation’s largest airlines reported only one flight in August with a tarmac delay of more than three hours, compared to 66 flights in August 2009, with no change in the rate of canceled flights, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report released [October 12, 2010] by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). …
International Petroleum Monthly – September 2010 Oct 13, 2010: “The International Petroleum Monthly (IPM) is the Energy Information Administration’s primary report of recent international petroleum (oil) statistics. This report includes world petroleum production statistics through July 2010. The IPM also includes statistics for petroleum demand, stocks, and imports for the Organization for Economic Cooperation …
EFF: “As noted in our first post, EFF recently received new documents via our FOIA lawsuit on social network surveillance, filed with the help of UC Berkeleys Samuelson Clinic, that reveal two ways the government has been tracking people online: Citizenship and Immigrations surveillance of social networks to investigate citizenship petitions and the DHSs use …
Defense Acquisitions: DOD Needs to Reassess Joint Cruise Missile Costs before Starting New Production Phase, GAO-11-112, October 13, 2010 Intellectual Property: Agencies Progress in Implementing Recent Legislation, but Enhancements Could Improve Future Plans, GAO-11-39, October 13, 2010 Military Personnel: Sustained Leadership and Oversight Needed to Improve DOD’s Prevention and Treatment of Domestic Abuse, GAO-10-923, September …
Sending Jobs Overseas: The Cost to Americas Economy and Working Families, Report by Working America and the AFL-CIO: “This report was created by Working America and the AFL-CIO as a companion piece to Working Americas Job Tracker, a ZIP codesearchable database of jobs exported (as well as Occupational Safety and Health Act violations and other …
The Riveting Rescue of 33 Chilean Miners: An Act of People, Leaders and Good Governance, by Daniel Kaufmann, Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, The Brookings Institution “The resourceful miners, their relatives, the government and its leadership, as well as many expert workers from Chile and abroad, deserve enormous and shared credit in this remarkable …
TRAC – Convictions for 2010 Lead Charge: 33 USC 1319 – Water Pollution – Enforcement “The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during the first ten months of FY 2010 the government reported 23 new convictions for these matters. Those cases had a lead charge of “33 USC 1319 – Water Pollution …
Post-Partisan Power: Authored by – Steven F. Hayward a resident scholar at AEI; Mark Muro, a senior fellow and the policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution; Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger are cofounders of the Breakthrough Institute.”>Post-Partisan Power “American energy policy is at a standstill. A new approach is needed …
News release: “The Mortgage Foreclosure Multistate Group, comprised of state attorneys general in all 50 states, and state banking and mortgage regulators in more than three dozen states, will explore whether individual mortgage servicers have improperly submitted documents in support of foreclosures. Specifically, the group will investigate whether companies misrepresented on affidavits and other documents …
