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Executive Office of the President – National Economic Council – Office of the President National Economic Council, Office of Science and Technology Policy: A Strategy for American Innovation: Driving Toward Sustainable Growth and Quality Jobs, September 2009 “Since taking office, President Obama has taken historic steps to lay the foundation for the innovation economy of …
Brookings: “Recognizing the need to expand the U.S. broadband network to ensure Americas infrastructure and economic development, Congress tasked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with developing a national broadband plan by February 17, 2010. On September 21, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski delivered remarks [link to transcript – 22 pages, PDF] on the national broadband plan …
News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau today released the latest American Community Survey (ACS) data, providing a statistical portrait of the characteristics of the nations population in 2008. / Detailed tables / ACS Media Toolkit / 2008 ACS Questionnaire. According to the new snapshot, one-in-four people in Texas (24.1 percent) lacked health insurance in 2008, …
High-Containment Laboratories: National Strategy for Oversight Is Needed, GAO-09-574, September 21, 2009 Troubled Asset Relief Program: Status of Government Assistance Provided to AIG, GAO-09-975, September 21, 2009 Flood Insurance: Opportunities Exist to Improve Oversight of the WYO Program, GAO-09-455, August 21, 2009 Low-Income and Minority Serving Institutions: Management Attention to Long-standing Concerns Needed to Improve …
Follow up to previous postings on what is becoming the saga of the Google Book Settlement, the following articles, legal documents and commentary today: New York Times: Google Working to Revise Digital Books Settlement Author’s Guild: “Beating their midnight deadline by about 90 minutes, the Justice Department on Friday filed a brief calling for modifications …
News release: “Counting down the hours until payday? Youre not alone. As the economic downturn trudges on, many workers are struggling with household budgets. Six-in-ten (61 percent) workers report they always or usually live paycheck to paycheck just to make ends meet, up from 49 percent last year and 43 percent in 2007. This is …
HeinOnline blog: “HeinOnline has had Federal Register coverage back to 1936 for several years now, but restrictions in our production process limited how quickly we could get new Federal Register days online. Recently, those production restrictions were eliminated, and starting at the end of July HeinOnline began updating the Federal Register on a daily basis. …
OIG-09-97 – Transportation Security Administration Privacy Stewardship (PDF, 36 pages), August 28, 2009 “We performed an audit of the Transportation Security Administrations (TSA) privacy stewardship. Our audit objective was to determine whether TSAs plans and activities instill and promote a privacy culture and comply with federal privacy laws and regulations. As part of this audit, …
The Internet as a Diversion, September 2009: “Three-quarters of online economic users go online to relax and take their minds off of the recession. Fully 88% of 18-29 year old online economic users look to the internet to relax.” See also: The Internet and the Recession, July 15, 2009 Related postings on financial system
Global Trade Alert (GTA) independent monitoring of policies that affect world trade – “provides real-time information on state measures taken during the current global downturn that are likely to affect foreign commerce. It goes beyond other monitoring initiatives by identifying the trading partners likely to be harmed by these measures. The GTA is coordinated by …
Status of Telework in the Federal Government, Report to the Congress: “In February 2009, seventy-eight Executive Branch agencies submitted data on their telework programs to the Office of Personnel Management. These data represent telework participation and related activities between January 1 and December 31, 2008. Agencies have been submitting these reports to OPM since 2001, …
News release: “Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed in August. Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia reported over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 16 states registered rate decreases, and 7 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the year, jobless rates increased in all 50 states …
