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FDIC State Profiles First Quarter 2009: “The First Quarter 2009 FDIC State Profiles are now available on-line. The FDIC State Profiles are formatted as a quarterly data sheet summation of economic and banking conditions for all fifty states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. They are available in both HTML, and via map links, …
News release: “Nonfarm payroll employment fell by 345,000 in May, about half the average monthly decline for the prior 6 months, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The unemployment rate continued to rise, increasing from 8.9 to 9.4 percent. Steep job losses continued in manufacturing, while declines moderated …
Energy Information Administration: Iraq Energy Data, Statistics and Analysis – Oil, Gas, Electricity, Coal, June 2009 “Iraq was the worlds 13th largest oil producer in 2008, and has the worlds third largest proven petroleum reserves after Saudi Arabia and Canada. Just a fraction of Iraqs known fields are in development, and Iraq may be one …
Export Controls: Fundamental Reexamination of System Is Needed to Help Protect Critical Technologies, GAO-09-767T, June 4, 2009 Internal Revenue Service: Review of the Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Request, GAO-09-754, June 3, 2009 International Food Assistance: Local and Regional Procurement Can Enhance the Efficiency of U.S. Food Aid, but Challenges May Constrain Its Implementation, GAO-09-570, May …
Beth Noveck, Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government: “…this initial public engagement process on open government policy will take place in three phases (brainstorming, discussion, drafting). Following this initial process, we will distill the input received here, from submissions of proposals in From the Inbox, and from government experts and develop a set of …
FoxBusiness: “Lawmakers and Obama Administration officials are moving closer to finalizing proposals to overhaul the financial regulatory system — a discussion which now includes federal insurance regulation and institutions such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but significant conflicts remain unresolved.” Related postings on financial system
Monthly Budget Review, June 2009 – Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for April and the Daily Treasury Statements for May: “The federal budget deficit was $984 billion for the first eight months of fiscal year 2009, CBO estimates, $664 billion more than the deficit recorded through May 2008. That estimate includes outlays for the …
“The Commerce Departments National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) a draft revision to the 2005 federal Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) Version 1.0, specifying how electronic voting machines are built and tested. The EAC has made the draft revision available for public comment today, with a final …
“The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. As a priority Open Government Initiative for President Obama’s administration, Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the …
“New data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that 62 percent of households reported using Internet access in the home in 2007, an increase from 18 percent in 1997, the first year the bureau collected data on Internet use. Sixty-four percent of individuals 18 and over used the Internet from any location in 2007, while …
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, Current economic and financial conditions and the federal budget, Before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., June 3, 2009 “The U.S. economy has contracted sharply since last fall, with real gross domestic product (GDP) having dropped at an average annual rate of about 6 percent during …
Alaska Native Villages: Limited Progress Has Been Made on Relocating Villages Threatened by Flooding and Erosion, GAO-09-551, June 03, 2009 Influenza Pandemic: Continued Focus on the Nation’s Planning and Preparedness Efforts Remains Essential, GAO-09-760T, June 03, 2009 Public Transportation: New Starts Program Challenges and Preliminary Observations on Expediting Project Development, GAO-09-763T, June 03, 2009 Rebuilding …
