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News release: “Vice President Joe Biden today unveiled a new report, The Recovery Act: Transforming the American Economy through Innovation, which finds that the Recovery Acts $100 billion investment in innovation is not only transforming the economy and creating new jobs, but helping accelerate significant advances in science and technology that cut costs for consumers, …
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, via Forbes news that “American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their …
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via Grant Thornton – The implications of the April 2010 oil spill on deepwater exploration and production, Summer 2010: “This paper outlines the ramifications of BPs Macondo well disaster for energy exploration and production (E&P) businesses. The prospects of drilling and operating in the Gulf …
Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output From April 2010 Through June 2010 – August 2010 “When ARRA was being considered, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that it would increase budget deficits by $787 billion between fiscal years …
House Financial Services Committee, Empowering Consumers: Can Financial Literacy Education Prevent Another Financial Crisis? August 24, 2010 Related postings on financial system
Government Auditing Standards: 2010 Exposure Draft, GAO-10-853G, August 01, 2010: “To help ensure that the standards continue to meet the needs of the audit community and the public it serves, the Comptroller General of the United States appointed the Advisory Council on Government Auditing Standards to review the standards and recommend necessary changes. The Advisory …
News release: “Existing-home sales were sharply lower in July following expiration of the home buyer tax credit but home prices continued to gain, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Existing-home sales1, which are completed transactions that include single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, dropped 27.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.83 million …
News release: “Twenty-seven percent of public school students ages 12 to 17 say that their school is both gang- and drug-infected (drugs are used, kept or sold on school grounds), according to the National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XV: Teens and Parents, the 15th annual back-to-school survey conducted by The National Center …
News release: “A new fact sheet from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, California’s Uninsured by County, provides detailed county-by-county estimates of the number of California residents who have lost health insurance during the economic downturn. Following on a statewide estimate published earlier this year, the new analysis finds that the number of Californians …
Recall of Shell Eggs: “An outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) that has sickened hundreds of people across the country has led to a recall of shell eggs. On August 13, Wright County Egg voluntarily conducted a nationwide recall of shell eggs on 3 of its 5 farms. Further epidemiologic and traceback information led to Wright …
The Cost of Short Sales, CoreLogic Research Study – An Analysis of 2010 Short Sale Trends, Risks, and Opportunities Study, August 2010 “The objective of this study is to understand the actual costs of residential mortgage short sales (or short payoffs) to mortgage industry participants and the industry itself. A short sale is a real …
OPM: Federal Student Loan Repayment Program Calendar Year 2009, Report to the Congress, August 2010 “Overall for CY 2009, 36 Federal agencies provided 8,454 employees with a total of more than $61.8 million in student loan repayment benefits….Section 5379 of title 5, United States Code, authorizes agencies to establish a program under which they may …
