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New American Contract Issue Brief – The Hidden Drain – Why Health Care Reform Is An Important Part of Economic Recovery, By Niko Karvounis, New America Foundation, June 30, 2009 “High health care costs inhibit economic recovery in many ways: they consume ever more of our economy at a time when effective public spending and …
News release, July 8, 2009: “Today, OMB Watch published a report that explores the impacts of secrecy labeling practices within the federal government. The report, Controlled Unclassified Information: Recommendations for Information Control Reform, shines a light on how government withholds unclassified information from the American people and offers recommendations on how to balance the need …
News release: “An Environmental Working Group (EWG) investigation of almost 200 popular bottled water brands found less than 2 percent disclose the waters source, how the water has been purified and what chemical pollutants each bottle of water may contain. Just 2 of the 188 individual brands EWG analyzed disclosed those three basic facts about …
Bottled Water: FDA Safety and Consumer Protections Are Often Less Stringent Than Comparable EPA Protections for Tap Water, GAO-09-861T, July 08, 2009 Climate Change Trade Measures: Considerations for U.S. Policy Makers, GAO-09-724R, July 08, 2009 Climate Change Trade Measures: Estimating Industry Effects, GAO-09-875T, July 08, 2009 Defense Logistics: Observations on Army’s Implementation of the Logistics …
CSFI – Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation: “The resilience of the global microfinance industry will be put to the test by the economic crisis, according to a new survey of the risks to the business, Microfinance Banana Skins 2009, by David Lascelles and Sam Mendelson. Far from being insulated from the economic mainstream …
Reforming Financial Markets, Presented to Parliament by The Chancellor of the Exchequer by Command of Her Majesty July 2009: “This document sets out the Governments analysis of the causes of the financial crisis, the action already taken to restore financial stability and the regulatory reforms necessary to strengthen the financial system for the future, so …
News release: “The global economy is beginning to pull out of a recession unprecedented in the postWorld War II era, but stabilization is uneven and the recovery is expected to be sluggish, according to the IMFs latest forecast. Economic growth during 2009-10 is now projected to be about ½ percentage points higher than forecast by …
News release: “New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced the public can now track how New York is spending federal stimulus funds on his Web site Open Book New York. The Web site includes easy to find information about which companies are doing federal stimulus work, how much they got paid and when. DiNapoli …
News release: “According to the Federal Bureau of Investigations 2008 Mortgage Fraud Report, released today, mortgage fraud Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) referred to law enforcement increased 36 percent to 63,713 during fiscal year (FY) 2008, compared to 46,717 reports in FY 2007. While the total dollar loss attributed to mortgage fraud is unknown, financial institutions …
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary, May 2009 “On the last business day of May job openings in the U.S. numbered 2.6 million, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The hires rate at 3.0 percent in May was at the lowest point since the …
News release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced a regulation expected to prevent each year 79,000 cases of foodborne illness and 30 deaths caused by consumption of eggs contaminated with the bacterium Salmonella enteritidis. The final rule requires preventive measures during the production of shell eggs in poultry houses and requires subsequent refrigeration …
June 23, 2009 – Homeland Security Department: FY2010 Appropriations: “This report describes the FY2010 appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Administration requested a net appropriation of $44.1 billion in budget authority for FY2010. This amounts to a $2.8 billion, or a 6.7% increase over the $41.2 billion enacted for FY2009 (not including …
