Category «Government Documents»

New GAO Reports: Afghanistan Development, Commercial Aviation, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Passport Issuance

Afghanistan Development: Enhancements to Performance Management and Evaluation Efforts Could Improve USAID’s Agricultural Programs, GAO-10-368, July 14, 2010 Commercial Aviation: Better Information about Airline-Imposed Fees and the Refundability of Government-Imposed Taxes and Fees Could Benefit Consumers, GAO-10-885T, July 14, 2010 Commercial Aviation: Consumers Could Benefit from Better Information about Airline-Imposed Fees and Refundability of Government-Imposed …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Census Releases 2008 Annual Surveys of State and Local Government Finances

State and Local Government Spending Increases by 6.5 Percent in 2008, Census Bureau Reports: “State and local government spending increased by 6.5 percent in 2008, totaling more than $2.8 trillion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Education topped government spending ($826.1 billion), followed by public welfare ($404.6 billion), insurance trust expenditures ($234.6 billion), utilities ($193.4 …

Subjects: Government Documents

Federal Agencies Release Annual Report to Congress on Scholarship Fraud

News release: “The Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Education have issued their annual report to Congress pursuant to the College Scholarship Fraud Prevention Act, describing their continued efforts to combat scholarship and financial aid fraud. Each year, millions of students seek help in financing their college education, and some …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

Rand: Measuring the Effectiveness of Border Security Between Ports-of-Entry

Measuring the Effectiveness of Border Security Between Ports-of-Entry, by Henry H. Willis, Joel B. Predd, Paul K. Davis, Wayne P. Brown “This report offers research and recommendations on ways to measure the overall efforts of the national border-security enterprise between ports of entry. Focusing on three missions illegal drug control, Counterterrorism, and illegal migration …

Subjects: Government Documents

Oceanographer Says Oil Spill Has Diminished Gulf Oxygen Levels

Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via WJS: “A university researcher questioned the significance of government data that suggest oxygen levels in the Gulf of Mexico haven’t dropped enough to be of serious concern. Samantha Joye, an oceanographer at the University of Georgia who is studying the oil spill’s potential effects …

Subjects: Government Documents

Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports – Shadow Banking

Shadow Banking, July 2010, Number 458. Authors: Zoltan Pozsar, Tobias Adrian, Adam Ashcraft, and Hayley Boesky “The rapid growth of the market-based financial system since the mid-1980s changed the nature of financial intermediation in the United States profoundly. Within the market-based financial system, “shadow banks” are particularly important institutions. Shadow banks are financial intermediaries that …

Subjects: Government Documents

House Majority Leader Majority Leader Hoyer Unveils House Floor Feed

News release: “House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) unveiled today a newly expanded service from the Majority Leaders Office that provides the latest internal information about what is happening on the House Floor: Beginning today, all House Democratic staff will have access to regular updates on whats happening on the House Floor through the …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Conference Board: U.S. Salary Increase Budgets for 2011

U.S. Salary Increase Budgets for 2011, Christopher Woock and Judit Torok, July 2010. R-1466-10-RR “With a median increase of 2.5 percent in 2010, salary increase budgets remain historically low but projections for 2011 show a modest increase to 3.0 percentan indication that the economic recovery has not yet picked up enough strength to significantly raise …

Subjects: Government Documents

White House Announces National HIV/AIDS Strategy

Jeffrey Crowley, Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy: “Today, I am pleased to announce the release of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States. The release of the strategy reaffirms President Obamas commitment to fighting this domestic epidemic. From the time that we first heard about the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) thirty …

Subjects: Government Documents

Latest U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services Report

U.S. Census Bureau – The Nations international trade deficit in goods and services increased to $42.3 billion in May from $40.3 billion (revised) in April, as imports increased more than exports. (July 13, 2010) Latest U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services Report – PDF – 400kb | ZIP (TXT) – 100kb | ZIP (XLS …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

More people in UK now underemployed than overemployed

UK Office for National Statistics: More people in UK now underemployed than overemployed, Economic & Labour Market Review, June 2010. 13 July 2010. “The article uses data from the Labour Force Survey, the largest household survey carried out by the Office for National Statistics, to assess whether people in work are underemployed or overemployed, or …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Department of Transportation Air Travel Consumer Report

Air Travel Consumer Report, July 2010 See also Tarmac delays: June 2010 amendment re web posting date for flight delay information

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

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