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Follow up to Social Security Board of Trustees: Economic Downturn Leads to Worsening of Long-Range Financing Outlook, this news: “the Kaiser Family Foundation has issued a new chartpack and factsheet with updated information on Medicare spending and financing, including new projections and historical data about the program’s hospital trust fund, which is projected to be …
Home Office Statistical Bulletin: Statistics on Terrorism Arrests and Outcomes, Great Britain 13 May 2009 – 11 September 2001 to 31 March 2008. “For the period between the start of the data collection on 11 September 2001 to 31 March 2008: There were 1,471 terrorism arrests. This excludes 38 arrests made between the introduction of …
Unified Agenda, May 2009 Edition: “The Unified Agenda summarizes the rules and proposed rules that each Federal agency expects to issue during the next six months.”
“The 2009 African Economic Outlook focuses on Innovations in Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). It also presents a comprehensive analysis of the economic, social and political developments on the continent.”
“Virtual Student Foreign Service (VSFS) Internships, announced by Secretary Clinton at the 2009 New York University commencement speech, are part of a growing effort by the State Department to harness technology and a commitment to global service among young people to facilitate new forms of diplomatic engagement. The VSFS Internships will be developed over the …
CBO Study: Alternatives for Modernizing U.S. Fighter Forces, May 2009 “This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study looks at the composition of todays fighter fleets and at how the Department of Defenses (DoDs) plans for modernizing fighter forcesas set forth in the Bush Administrations 2009 Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) and other DoD documentswould affect inventories …
News release: “The crisis of the past 20 months has exposed critical gaps and weaknesses in our financial regulatory system. As risks built up, internal risk management systems, rating agencies and regulators simply did not understand or address critical behaviors until they had already resulted in catastrophic losses. Those failures have caused a dramatic loss …
News release: “According to the 2009 National Gang Threat Assessment released by the National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) and the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC), approximately one million gang members belonging to more than 20,000 gangs were criminally active in the U.S. as of September 2008. The assessment was developed through analysis of available federal, …
Review of the European Data Protection Directive, by Neil Robinson, Hans Graux, Maarten Botterman, Lorenzo Valeri “The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) asked a multidisciplinary international research team led by RAND Europe with time-lex and GNKS-Consult to review the strengths and weaknesses of the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and propose avenues for improvement. The Directive …
CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, Changing Patterns of Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States, May 2009 “Childbearing among unmarried women has been the subject of intense public policy and public health concern for decades, much of it reflecting concerns about the impact on family structure and the economic security of children. Nonmarital births are at …
Through Boom and Bust: Minorities, Immigrants and Homeownership, May 12, 2009: “The boom-and-bust cycle in the U.S. housing market over the past decade and a half has generated greater gains and larger losses for minority groups than it has for whites, according to an analysis of housing, economic and demographic data by the Pew Hispanic …
News release: “The Social Security Board of Trustees today released its annual report on the financial health of the Social Security Trust Funds. The Trustees project that program costs will exceed tax revenues in 2016, one year sooner than projected in last years report. The combined assets of the Old-Age and Survivors, and Disability Insurance …
