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News release: “One of the lessons of the global financial crisis which started in August 2007 is the crucial importance for policy makers and supervisors of having access to a wide range of reliable, timely and detailed financial statistics. The BIS has long been playing a pioneering role in collecting and providing, under the auspices …
Drinking Water: “Every living creature needs clean and safe drinking water. How much do you need? Itdepends – your size, activity level and the weather all make a difference. The water you drink is a combination of surface water and groundwater. Surface water includes rivers, lakes and reservoirs. Groundwater comes from underground. The United States …
News release: The Employment Situation, June 2010 “Total nonfarm payroll employment declined by 125,000 in June, and the unemployment rate edged down to 9.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The decline in payroll employment reflected a decrease (-225,000) in the number of temporary employees working on Census 2010. Private-sector payroll employment …
Putting a Lid on International Scams: 10 Tips for Being a Canny Consumer: “Mass marketing fraud is a significant source of income for international crime rings. Con artists ignore geographic boundaries to reach out to potential victims by phone, email, postal mail, and through the Internet, and then trick them into sending money or giving …
From Solicitor General to Supreme Court Nominee: Responsibilities, History, and the Nomination of Elena Kagan, by Susan Navarro Smelcer, Analyst on the Federal Judiciary. Kenneth R. Thomas, Legislative Attorney, June 23, 2010 “On May 10, 2010, President Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. If confirmed, Elena Kagan would …
July 2010 Petroleum Marketing Monthly With Data for April 2010 – July 1, 2010: “Monthly price and volume statistics on crude oil and petroleum products at a national, regional and state level.”
The Long-Term Budget Outlook, June 2010 “This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report examines the pressures on the federal budget by presenting the agencys projections of federal spending and revenues over the coming decades. Under current laws and policies, an aging population and rapidly rising health care costs will sharply increase federal spending for health care …
Highlights of Womens Earnings in 2009, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2010, Report 1025 “In 2009, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median weekly earnings of $657, or about 80 percent of the $819 median for their male counterparts. In 1979, the first year for which comparable …
Information Security: Governmentwide Guidance Needed to Assist Agencies in Implementing Cloud Computing, GAO-10-855T, July 01, 2010 Warfighter Support: Actions Needed to Improve the Joint Improvised Exposive Device Defeat Organization’s System of Internal Control, GAO-10-660, July 01, 2010 Biosurveillance: Efforts to Develop a National Biosurveillance Capability Need a National Strategy and a Designated Leader, GAO-10-645, June …
Social Security Policy Options, July 2010 “Social Security is the federal governments largest single program, and as the U.S. population grows older in the coming decades, its cost is projected to increase more rapidly than its revenues. As a result, under current law, resources dedicated to the program will become insufficient to pay full benefits …
Gender Equality Universally Embraced, But Inequalities Acknowledged, released July 1, 2010 “Fifteen years after the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Womens Beijing Platform for Action proclaimed that shared power and responsibility should be established between women and men at home, in the workplace and in the wider national and international communities, people around the …
Consultation on Derivatives and Market Infrastructures – frequently asked questions – “Why has the Internal Market and Services Directorate General of the European Commission launched another public consultation on Derivatives and Market Infrastructures? The European Commission adopted a Communication on “Ensuring efficient, safe and sound derivatives markets future policy actions”, on 20th October 2009 …
