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2010 Census: Efforts to Build an Accurate Address List Are Making Progress, but Face Software and Other Challenges, GAO-10-140T, October 21, 2009 U.S. Department of Agriculture: Internal Control Would Improve Accountability for Certain Centrally Provided (Greenbook) Programs, GAO-10-82, October 20, 2009 Credit Cards: Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Could Better Reflect the Evolving Debt Collection …
News release: ‘Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed in September. Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 19 states registered rate decreases, and 8 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the year, jobless rates increased in all 50 states …
Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District, October 21, 2009 – Full Report and Districts “Reports from the 12 Federal Reserve Districts indicated either stabilization or modest improvements in many sectors since the last report, albeit often from depressed levels. Leading the more positive sector reports among Districts were residential real estate and manufacturing, both …
Updated State and Local Option Sales Tax, by Kail Padgitt, Fiscal Fact No. 196 “Sales taxes are paradoxically transparent and non-transparent. A taxpayer can easily see how high the tax is by looking at the receipt for any purchase. It’s hard to imagine a more transparent tax. However, due to the wide variety of local …
UN: Reform of the Committee on World Food Security – Final Version “The rise in food prices in 2007-08, followed by the financial and economic crisis in 2009, has highlighted the unacceptable levels of structural poverty and hunger around the world. The food and financial crisis threatens global food security and nutrition and the achievement …
October 02, 2009 – Income and Poverty Among Older Americans in 2008 October 01, 2009 – Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance October 01, 2009 – Air Force C-17 Aircraft Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress September 30, 2009 – Guinea’s 2008 Military Coup and Relations with the United States September 30, 2009 – Cybersecurity: …
News release: “Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today took steps to help the country develop technologies that could potentially unlock the nations oil shale reserves while protecting taxpayers, water resources, the environment, and local communities. Pledging to reform the nations oil shale program, Salazar announced that the Department of the Interior is offering additional …
News release: “U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 5.5 percent fewer workers in August 2009 than in August 2008, the 14th consecutive decrease in full-time equivalent employee (FTE) levels for the scheduled passenger carriers from the same month of the previous year, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. FTE calculations …
Producer Price Index, September 2009: “The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods declined 0.6 percent in September, seasonally adjusted, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. This decrease followed a 1.7-percent rise in August and a 0.9-percent decline in July. In September, at the earlier stages of processing, prices …
Speech by Mervyn King, Governor of The Bank of England, to Scottish Business Organisations in Edinburgh, October 20, 2009: “Banking has not been good for the wealth of the Scottish and, it should be said, almost any other nation recently. Over the past year, almost six million jobs have been lost in the …
Medicare Part D Plan Sponsor Electronic Prescribing Initiatives (OEI-05-08-00322), Otober 16, 2009 “E-prescribing occurs when a prescriber uses a computer or an electronic hand-held device, such as a personal digital assistant, to write and send a prescription directly to a dispenser. Before a prescriber sends a prescription to a dispenser, he or she can request …
Juvenile Justice: Technical Assistance and Better Defined Evaluation Plans Will Help Girls’ Delinquency Programs. GAO-10-133T, October 20, 2009: “…from 1995 through 2005, delinquency caseloads for girls in juvenile justice courts nationwide increased 15 percent while boys caseloads decreased by 12 percent.1 More recently, in 2007, 29 percent of juvenile arrestsabout 641,000 arrestsinvolved girls, who accounted …
