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News release: “Two reports released by The Education Trust – Big Gaps, Small Gaps: Some Colleges and Universities Do Better Than Others in Graduating African-American Students and Big Gaps, Small Gaps: Some Colleges and Universities Do Better Than Others in Graduating Hispanic Students dig beneath national college-graduation averages and examine disaggregated six-year graduation rates …
Employee Benefit Research Institute – What Do We Really Know About Consumer-Driven Health Plans? August 2010, EBRI Issue Brief #345 ABOUT CDHPs: Employers began offering consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) in 2001 when a handful started offering health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs). They then started offering health savings account (HSA)-eligible plans after the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, …
News release: “Tactics of the Taliban and other Anti-Government Elements (AGEs) are behind a 31 per cent increase in conflict-related Afghan civilian casualties in the first six months of 2010 compared with the same period in 2009, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said today in releasing its 2010 Mid-Year Report on Protection …
Federal Bureau of Investigation – Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratorys Forensic DNA Case Backlog, Audit Report Report 10-39, August 2010 “The forensic DNA case backlog at the FBI Laboratory can have significant effects. Backlogs may delay legal proceedings that are waiting on the results of DNA analysis. Backlogs can also prevent the …
“Zillow recently released its second quarter Real Estate Market Reports for the nation and 144 metropolitan areas. The reports show that home values continued to decline nationwide in the second quarter, but stabilization in some areas led to an overall decrease in negative equity. Individual markets had mixed results: Most in California experienced quarter-over-quarter appreciation, …
News release: “The Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) released Long-term issues in international banking, a report prepared by a CGFS Study Group chaired by Hans-Helmut Kotz, former Executive Board member of the Deutsche Bundesbank. The report addresses structural issues in international banking from three angles: a historical perspective, what the drivers have been, …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Education today is launching a new interactive Web site aimed at making accurate and timely education data available in a single place. A key element of the Department’s open government plan, ED Data Express consolidates relevant data collected by the Department from several different sources and provides search tools …
News release: “U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced the award of $115.3 million to 124 school districts to improve the quality of teaching American history in our nation’s schools. The Teaching American History grant program aims to enhance teachers’ understanding of American history through intensive professional development, including study trips to historic sites …
National Center for Children in Poverty, Basic Facts About Food Insecurity Among Children in the United States, 2008. Vanessa R. Wight and Kalyani Thampi, August 2010 “There are about 39.5 million households with children (approximately 34 percent of all households). 79 percent were food secure. 10.2 percent reported food security among adults only. 9.6 percent …
U.S. Department of Justice The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction, A Report to Congress, August 2010 “In the broadest terms, the goal of this National Strategy is to prevent child sexual exploitation from occurring in the first place, in order to protect every childs opportunity and right to have a childhood that …
Next Generation Air Transportation System: FAA and NASA Have Improved Human Factors Research Coordination, but Stronger Leadership Needed, GAO-10-824, August 06, 2010 “To address challenges to the aviation industrys economic health and safety, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is collaborating with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other federal partners to plan and …
Structure and Finances of U.S. Farms: Family Farm Report, 2010 Edition, by Robert A. Hoppe and David E. Banker. Economic Information Bulletin No. (EIB-66) 72 pp, July 2010
