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The Mexican-Norwegian Proposal on Climate Change Financing – The Green Fund “The Joint Model – To achieve an ambitious outcome in Copenhagen financing will need to be scaled up significantly and urgently, starting fast and rising over time. Mexico and Norway now launch a joint model (see chart) that has the potential for substantially increasing …
Anti-Money Laundering: Improved Communication Could Enhance the Support FinCEN Provides to Law Enforcement, GAO-10-141, December 14, 2009 U.S. Postal Service: The Program for Reassessing Work Provided to Injured Employees Is Under Way, but Actions Are Needed to Improve Program Management, GAO-10-78, December 14, 2009 VA Construction: VA Is Working to Improve Initial Project Cost Estimates, …
Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2009 – “Presents data on crime and safety at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, and principals. A joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics, this annual report examines crime occurring in school as well as on the way to …
New York Times, New York Finds Extreme Crisis in Youth Prisons: “A draft report by a New York state task force, Charting a New Course: A Blueprint for Transforming Juvenile Justice in New York, shines a harsh light on the problems in the state’s prisons for juvenile offenders. The problems are so acute that the …
Google.org blog: “…at the International Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen we demonstrated a new technology prototype that enables online, global-scale observation and measurement of changes in the earth’s forests. We hope this technology will help stop the destruction of the world’s rapidly-disappearing forests. Emissions from tropical deforestation are comparable to the emissions of all …
HHS OIG FDA’s Food Facility Registry, December 2009, OEI-02-08-00060: “Each year, more than 300,000 Americans are hospitalized and 5,000 die after consuming contaminated foods and beverages. In the event of an outbreak of a foodborne illness, FDA is responsible for finding the source of the contamination and helping to remove the contaminated food products from …
Census news release: “State governments took in nearly $1.7 trillion in total revenues in fiscal year 2008, a 15.8 percent decrease from 2007, according to new data on state government finances released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The largest share of those revenues came from taxes ($780.7 billion), which made up 46.5 percent. The decline …
Prisoners in 2008: “Presents data on prisoners under jurisdiction of federal or state correctional authorities on December 31, 2008, collected from the National Prisoner Statistics series. This annual report compares changes in the prison population during 2008 to changes from yearend 2000 through yearend 2007. These are the only comprehensive national-level data on prison admissions …
Investing for Success Examining a Federal Capital Budget and a National Infrastructure Bank, Emilia Istrate and Robert Puentes, Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings “Todays fiscally constrained environment demands a new approach to infrastructure policy, allowing us to upgrade our existing infrastructure, expand choices in moving people and goods (and ideas), ease the burden on household …
Via U.S. Dept. of State: Lobbying the Executive Branch: Current Practices and Options for Change, Jacob R. Straus, Analyst on the Congress, December 1, 2009 “This report outlines the development of registration requirements for lobbyists engaging executive branch officials since 1995. It also summarizes steps taken by the Obama Administration to limit and monitor lobbying …
Preliminary 2009 Fatality Statistics – Law Enforcement Officer Fatality Statistics as of December 12, 2009: Gunfire – 47 deaths, 24% increase to date from 2008.
Transcript: “Over the past two years, more than seven million Americans have lost their jobs, and factories and businesses across our country have been shuttered. In one way or another, weve all been touched by the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression…But much of it was due to the irresponsibility of large financial institutions …
