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News release: “Senator Chuck Grassley is pressing the Director of the FBI for additional information about its latest attempt to modernize its antiquated computer system. Grassley sent a letter to Director Robert Mueller following reports that a stop work order had been placed on both phases 3 and 4 of the Sentinel contract with Lockheed …
News release: “Today, the Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation, Kenneth R. Feinberg, announced the conclusion of his review of executive pay in late 2008 and early 2009. The Special Master looked at payments that taxpayer-assisted firms made to “Top 25″ executives prior to February 17, 2009, when the Recovery Act introduced additional compensation and …
Follow up to Several State Attorneys General Announce Probes of Google Wireless Data Collection, this news release: “Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today on behalf of the executive committee of a 38-state coalition asked Google whether it tested its Street View software before use — which should have revealed that the program collected data transmitted over …
Kenneth R. Feinberg, the Obama administrations special master for executive compensation: “With the financial system on the verge of collapse in late 2008, a group of troubled banks doled out more than $2 billion in bonuses and other payments to their highest earners. Now, the federal authority on banker pay says that nearly 80 percent …
bizjournals: “Washington residents can claim one of the least miserable economies in the nation, based on one straightforward measure: the misery index, which combines inflation with unemployment. The misery index in the Washington/Baltimore area currently stands as the second-lowest in the nation, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Washingtons year-over-year inflation rate, at 1.95 percent, …
Occupational Pay Comparisons Among Metropolitan Areas, 2009: Average pay for civilian workers in the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA metropolitan area was 20 percent above the national average in 2009, one of 77 metropolitan areas studied by the National Compensation Survey (NCS), the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The …
Analysis of a Proposal to Offer a Public Plan Through the New Health Insurance Exchanges, July 22, 2010. “Taking into account all of the relevant factors, CBO estimates that roughly one-third of the people obtaining coverage through the insurance exchanges would enroll in the public plan. CBO estimates that about 25 million people would purchase …
Alien Smuggling: DHS Could Better Address Alien Smuggling along the Southwest Border by Leveraging Investigative Resources and Measuring Program Performance, GAO-10-919T, July 22, 2010 Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Tests: Misleading Test Results Are Further Complicated by Deceptive Marketing and Other Questionable Practices, GAO-10-847T, July 22, 2010 Information Management: Challenges In Federal Agencies’ Use of Web 2.0 Technologies, …
Social Security Disability Insurance: Participation Trends and Their Fiscal Implications, July 22, 2010 – “The Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) program pays cash benefits to nonelderly adults (those younger than age 66) who are judged to be unable to perform substantial work because of a disability but who have worked in the past; the program …
News release: “Most families with young children live within a mile of a public elementary school. The most common home heating fuel in the U.S. is gas. Only a third of American homes have a working carbon monoxide detector. These are just some of the findings of a comprehensive national sample of the more than …
News release: “Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 announced the release of the Sustainable Design and Green Building Toolkit for Local Governments (Toolkit). The Toolkit was developed collaboratively by the Agencys Regional Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Division and Water Protection Division and Pollution Prevention Office, with support from the EPA Green Building and Smart …
An Analysis of the Army’s Arsenal Support Program Initiative, July 2010 “The Congress created the Arsenal Support Program Initiative (ASPI) in 2001 to help maintain the viability of the Armys three manufacturing arsenals. Owned and operated by the federal government, those arsenals – which are located in Rock Island, Illinois, Watervliet, New York, and Pine …
