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Follow up to previous postings on childhood and adolescent obesity, this new report: Too Fat to Fight – Retired Military Leaders Want Junk Food Out of Americas Schools. A report by Mission: Readiness, Military Leaders for Kids, April 2010. “Mission: Readiness, an organization of retired senior military leaders, is warning Congress that at least nine …
Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, April 20, 2010 – Quarterly Report to Congress Related postings on financial system
Multilateral Development Banks: Overview and Issues for Congress, Rebecca M. Nelson, Analyst in International Trade and Finance, April 9, 2010 “The multilateral development banks (MDBs) include the World Bank and four smaller regional development banks: the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Asian Development Bank (AsDB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and the …
News release: “The World Development Indicators (WDI) 2010, released today, gives a statistical progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The WDI database, launched along with the World Banks Open Data initiative to provide free data to all users, includes more than 900 indicators documenting the state of all the worlds economies. The WDI …
“Reducing the intake of sodium is an important public health goal for Americans…Americans consume unhealthy amounts of sodium in their food, far exceeding public health recommendations. Consuming too much sodium increases the risk for high blood pressure, a serious health condition that is avoidable and can lead to a variety of diseases. Analysts estimate that …
TRAC Immigration – Federal Prosecutors Along Southwest Border Overwhelmed by Soaring Arizona Drug Cases: “Federal prosecutors along the Southwest border with Mexico — many already strained by the rise in their immigration caseloads — are facing a new challenge: how to handle a sharp jump in drug cases. The extent of this problem can be …
Operation Iraqi Freedom: Actions Needed to Facilitate the Efficient Drawdown of U.S. Forces and Equipment from Iraq, GAO-10-376, April 19, 2010 Poorly Performing Nursing Homes: Special Focus Facilities Are Often Improving, but CMS’s Program Could Be Strengthened, GAO-10-197, March 19, 2010 Military Training: Actions Needed to Further Improve the Consistency of Combat Skills Training Provided …
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News release: “Today the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) released its monthly state-by-state report Understanding the Economy: State-by-State Snapshots, featuring key economic indicators for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The report has been updated to include state data released April 16 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and is the …
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke – Lessons from the failure of Lehman Brothers Before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., April 20, 2010: “The Federal Reserve fully understood that the failure of Lehman would shake the financial system and the economy. However, the only tool available to the Federal Reserve to …
Follow up to Missing White House E-Mails Still Factor in Torture Memo Investigation, this CREW news release: “On Friday, April 16, CREW received an initial response to its Freedom of Information Act request of the Department of Justices Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) related to the failure of former OLC official John Yoo to preserve …
Summary Estimates for Multinational Companies: Employment, Sales, and Capital Expenditures for 2008 – “The following are advance summary estimates of the employment, capital spending, and sales activity of U.S. multinational companies (comprising both their U.S. and foreign operations) and the corresponding activity of foreign multinational companies in the United States. U.S. multinational companies: U.S. and …
