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“Air pollution continues to threaten the lives and health of millions of people in the United States despite great progress since the modern Clean Air Act was first passed in 1970. Even as the nation explores the complex challenges of global warming and energy, air pollution remains widespread and dangerous. This year marks the tenth …
News release: “Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — decreased at an annual rate of 6.1 percent in the first quarter of 2009, (that is, from the fourth quarter to the first quarter), according to advance estimates released by the …
Recovery Act: Consistent Policies Needed to Ensure Equal Consideration of Grant Applications, GAO-09-590R, April 29, 2009 Recovery Act: Initial Results on States’ Use of and Accountability for Transportation Funds, GAO-09-597T, April 29, 2009 U.S. Department of Agriculture: Recommendations and Options Available to the New Administration and Congress to Address Long-Standing Civil Rights Issues, GAO-09-650T, April …
“President Obama has pledged to take a different approach. Upon taking office, he heralded a “new era of openness” in which “this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known.” His commitment to transparency is hearteningbut promises and action are two different …
State Department, Washington, DC, April 27, 2009: “On March 31, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Susan Rice announced that the United States will seek a seat this year on the United Nations Human Rights Council with the goal of working to make it a more …
By Dan Mitchel, California State Library, this resource guide to selected reliable sources for tracking the global status of the swine flu: National Institutes of Health which links to and expands upon the MedlinePlus Swine Flu page. The SIS web page contains information from several U.S. and international agencies and organizations, treatment information, genetic sequence …
Acquisition Workforce: DOD Can Improve Its Management and Oversight by Tracking Data on Contractor Personnel and Taking Additional Actions, GAO-09-616T, April 28, 2009 Bureau of Public Debt: Areas for Improvement in Information Security Controls, GAO-09-633R, April 28, 2009 Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Request: U.S. Government Accountability Office, GAO-09-587T, April 28, 2009 Social Security Administration: Effective …
Milken Institute Global Conference, April 2009, Presentation by CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf U.S. Overview: When Will Growth Resume? Infrastructure Projects as Economic Stimulus Related postings on financial system
The Nation’s Report Card: Long-Term Trend 2008 “This report presents the results of NAEPs long-term trend assessments in reading and mathematics that were administered in the 200708 school year to students aged 9, 13, and 17. Because the long-term trend assessments have been administered at different times during NAEPs 40-year history, it is possible to …
News release: “The Obama Administration today announced details of new efforts to help bring relief to responsible homeowners under the Making Home Affordable Program, including an effort to achieve greater affordability for homeowners by lowering payments on their second mortgages as well as a set of measures to help underwater borrowers stay in their homes.” …
News release: “In anticipation of President Obamas 100th day in office, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold today released a “100 Day Rule of Law Report” to examine the new administrations efforts to reverse the Bush administrations eight year assault on the rule of law. Feingold assessed the steps the Obama administration has taken thus far to …
News release: “With fewer children being born and people living longer, the population of the Asia-Pacific region is steadily growing older so much so, that since 2000, the regions annual population growth has fallen to 1.1 per cent the lowest rate among the worlds developing regions. This finding is one of many contained …
