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“Very timely Justice Department data obtained and analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) show that immigration enforcement under the Obama Administration is returning to the unusually high levels that were reached under President Bush. The clearest sign of the administration’s current immigration enforcement policy emerged from the monthly growth in such prosecutions — …
July 20, 2009 – Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Survey Demonstrates That Banks Can Provide Meaningful Information On Their Use Of TARP Funds “Although most banks reported that they did not segregate or track TARP fund usage on a dollar-for-dollar basis, most banks were able to provide insights into their actual …
Drug Control: U.S. Counternarcotics Cooperation with Venezuela Has Declined, GAO-09-806, July 20, 2009 Improper Payments: Responses to Posthearing Questions Related to Eliminating Waste and Fraud in Medicare and Medicaid, GAO-09-838R, July 20, 2009 Defense Critical Infrastructure: Actions Needed to Improve the Consistency, Reliability, and Usefulness of DOD’s Tier 1 Task Critical Asset List, GAO-09-740R, July …
News release: “About 131 million people reported voting in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, an increase of 5 million from 2004, according to a new table package released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. The increase included about 2 million more black voters, 2 million more Hispanic voters and about 600,000 more Asian voters, while …
“The following body of research, conducted by the Department of Transportation and completed in 2003, has not been made public until now. The documents pertain to the safety of using wireless communication devices while driving. The New York Times obtained the research from the Center for Auto Safety and Public Citizen, two consumer advocacy groups …
New York Times: “The United States ranks behind every industrial nation except France in the percentage of overall economic activity devoted to manufacturing 13.9 percent, the World Bank reports, down a percentage point or so in a decade. The 19-month-old recession has contributed to this decline. Industrial production has fallen 17.3 percent, the sharpest …
News release: “Federal Housing Finance Agency Director James B. Lockhart released FHFAs April 2009 Foreclosure Prevention Report detailing actions taken by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prevent unnecessary foreclosures and keep people in their homes. The report includes loan modification data under FHFAs Streamlined Modification Program, which was initiated in November 2008 but ended …
The Results: Wave III – Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales1, July 13, 2009 – “A sense of optimism and a reduction in fear and anger toward Americas financial institutions mark the latest findings in the Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index. According to the report, trust in financial institutions has gone up slightly in the …
“The continued failure to devise and implement a sound and sustainable immigration policy threatens to weaken Americas economy, to jeopardize its diplomacy, and to imperil its national security,” concludes a new Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Independent Task Force co-chaired by former Florida governor Jeb Bush and former White House chief of staff Thomas “Mack” …
New York Times graphic: Jobs Lost and Gained During the Recession – Percent employment change, December 2007 – June 2009. Data is from Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the anchor article is here. Related postings on financial system
News release: “Regional and state unemployment rates were generally higher in June. Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 5 states registered rate decreases, and 7 states had no rate change, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported on July 17, 2009. Over the year, …
“This story marks the beginning of a collaborative effort between the Center for Public Integrity and the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, CA. Over the next few months, the two organizations will be working together to produce a series of investigative reports examining the effectiveness of Americas homeland security efforts.” This article includes a …
