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Decline in smoking means decline in state revenue, by Ali Eaves, Special to Stateline “Americans are smoking less and less. Thats good news for public health, but it creates an ironically nasty side effect for many state budgets. They have grown dependent on an annual stream of money from tobacco companies, and that money is …
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration – Modernized e-File Will Enhance Processing of Electronically Filed Individual Tax Returns, but System Development and Security Need Improvement, May 26, 2010, Reference Number: 2010-20-041 “The Modernized e-File Projects (MeF) goal is to replace the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) current tax return filing technology with a modernized, Internet-based electronic …
“Annual data on the labor force, employment, and unemployment in States and substate areas are available from two major sources: the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program. The CPS is a sample survey of about 60,000 households nationwide conducted for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) by the …
The Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force: “Obama Administration officials released the Final Recommendations of the Ocean Policy Task Force on July 19, 2010, which would establish a National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, Coasts, and Great Lakes (National Policy) and create a National Ocean Council (NOC) to strengthen ocean governance and coordination. The …
Executive Order, July 19, 2010: “Section 1. Purpose. The ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes provide jobs, food, energy resources, ecological services, recreation, and tourism opportunities, and play critical roles in our Nation’s transportation, economy, and trade, as well as the global mobility of our Armed Forces and the maintenance of international peace and …
A hidden world, growing beyond control, by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin: “The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs …
Follow up to Washington Post Investigation: Top Secret America, Acting Director of National Intelligence, David C. Gompert, reaction to the Washington Post series: “This morning, the Washington Post began a series of articles on the growth of the Intelligence Community following the terrorist attacks on 9/11. The reporting does not reflect the Intelligence Community we …
News release: “This chartpack, Financing the Response to AIDS in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: International Assistance from the G8, European Commission and Other Donor Governments in 2009, tracks funding levels of the donor governments that collectively provide the bulk of international assistance for AIDS through bilateral programs and contributions to the Global Fund to Fight …
Costs of Major U.S. Wars, Stephen Daggett, Specialist in Defense Policy and Budgets, June 29, 2010 “This CRS report provides estimates of the costs of major U.S. wars from the American Revolution through current conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. It presents figures both in current year dollars, that is, in prices in effect at …
Electric Power Monthly April 2010 data July 19, 2010: “The latest EPM issue (July 2010) is now available on EIA’s Electricity page. Data are for April 2010, during which net generation in the United States decreased by 0.8 percent and consumption of coal for power generation was down fractionally compared to April 2009. The …
“Metro today announced an enhanced Web site on which customers can check the balance of their SmarTrip card, monitor any SmartBenefits activity through their employers, and review their usage over time, including on their iPhones and Blackberrys. Users can also report cards online as stolen, lost, cracked or malfunctioning, though they can’t add to their …
News release: “The Securities and Exchange Commission’s division that reviews public company filings is creating three specialized offices to enhance its disclosure review and policy operations. The new offices in the Division of Corporation Finance will focus on large financial institutions, asset-backed securities and other structured products, and securities offering trends. The three new offices …
