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Military Training: DOD Continues to Improve Its Report on the Sustainability of Training Ranges, GAO-10-977R, September 14, 2010 Nuclear Waste: Actions Needed to Address Persistent Concerns with Efforts to Close Underground Radioactive Waste Tanks at DOE’s Savannah River Site, GAO-10-816, September 14, 2010 Public Transportation: Use of Contractors is Generally Enhancing Transit Project Oversight, and …
News release: ” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that the FY 2008 national cohort default rate is 7.0 percent, up from the FY 2007 rate of 6.7 percent. The default rates increased from 5.9 to 6 percent for public institutions, from 3.7 to 4 percent for private institutions, and from 11 to …
Global Entrepreneurship and the United States, September 2010 “This paper looks at the performance of the United States on the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), which captures the contextual features of entrepreneurship. The index builds on and improves earlier measures by capturing quantitative and qualitative aspects of entrepreneurship. It measures entrepreneurial performance in 71 …
State Legislature Websites: Via the THOMAS site, this graphical map provides mouse-over and text based links to State Legislature Websites For U.S. States and Territories, as well as key links to Other State Legislative Information.
“…the Bipartisan Policy Centers (BPC) National Security Preparedness Group (NSPG) released a report, Assessing the Terrorist Threat, which details how the terrorist threat currently facing the United States has grown more complex and diverse since 2001. Under the leadership of former 9/11 Commission Chair and Vice Chair Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, NSPG members Peter …
News release: “According to the figures released today by the FBI, the estimated number of violent crimes in the nation declined in 2009 for the third consecutive year. Property crimes also declined in 2009, marking the seventh straight year that the collective estimates for these offenses dropped below the previous years total. The 2009 statistics …
“A new report offers a dramatic look at Arctic species being pushed toward extinction by rapid climate change. Extinction: Its Not Just for Polar Bears documents 17 Arctic animals, from Arctic foxes to whales to plankton, struggling to survive the effects of climate change and ocean acidification. It was produced by the Center for Biological …
Initiative of Pew Charitable Trusts: “Subsidyscopes analysis of government spending data finds that the federal role in the energy sector is significant, although smaller than its role relative to some other sectors, such as transportation. Total federal spending on tax expenditures and grant programs likely to contain a subsidy in the energy sector was about …
The Dallas Morning News graphic: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac holdings – total mortgages held in portfolio and mortgage-backed securities guaranteed at year-end [2000-2010] Related postings on financial system
The Challenges of Growth, Employment and Social Cohesion, Joint ILO-IMF conference in cooperation with the office of the Prime Minister of Norway “The world faces major challenges in creating enough quality jobs to sustain growth and development. The financial crisis of 200709 led to a sharp increase in layoffs and a slowdown in hiring, and …
Defense Planning: DOD Needs to Review the Costs and Benefits of Basing Alternatives for Army Forces in Europe, GAO-10-745R, September 13, 2010 Iraqi-U.S. Cost-Sharing: Iraq Has a Cumulative Budget Surplus, Offering the Potential for Further Cost-Sharing, GAO-10-304, September 13, 2010 Perchlorate: Occurrence Is Widespread but at Varying Levels; Federal Agencies Have Taken Some Actions to …
News release: “At its 12 September 2010 meeting, the Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision, the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, announced a substantial strengthening of existing capital requirements and fully endorsed the agreements it reached on 26 July 2010. These capital reforms, together with the introduction of a global …
