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The 2009 Retirement Confidence Survey: Economy Drives Confidence to Record Lows; Many Looking to Work Longer, Employee Benefit Research Institute, April 2009 “Workers who say they are very confident about having enough money for a comfortable retirement this year hit the lowest level in 2009 (13 percent) since the Retirement Confidence Survey started asking the …
Press release: “The Conference Board Leading Economic Index (LEI) for the U.S. decreased 0.3 percent, The Conference Board Coincident Economic Index (CEI) decreased 0.4 percent and The Conference Board Lagging Economic Index (LAG) decreased 0.4 percent in March.” Download a PDF of the technical notes for underlying detail, diffusion indexes, components, contributions and graphs. Related …
News release: “President Obama [held] the first cabinet meeting of his Administration this morning. As part of his commitment to go line by line through the budget to cut spending and reform government he… challenge[d] his cabinet to cut a collective 100 million dollars in the next 90 days. Agencies will be required to report …
Army Health Care: Progress Made in Staffing and Monitoring Units that Provide Outpatient Case Management, but Additional Steps Needed, GAO-09-357, April 20, 2009 Drug Control: Better Coordination with the Department of Homeland Security and an Updated Accountability Framework can Further Enhance DEA’s Efforts to Meet Post-9/11 Responsibilities, GAO-09-63, March 20, 2009
News release: “On April 17, 2009, HHS issued guidance specifying the technologies and methodologies that render protected health information unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable to unauthorized individuals, as required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act passed as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). This guidance …
New release: “Recent Salmonella outbreaks involving peanut butter and fresh produce underscore the need to repair gaps in state and local food safety programs and integrate them better with federal food safety efforts, according to a new report, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, prepared with extensive input from state and local officials. The …
News release: “[April 17, 2009] the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee posted to its website a joint discussion draft and summary for the 21st Century Energy Technology Deployment Act. {CEDA] This proposal, put forward by the bipartisan Committee staff, seeks to improve the loan guarantee program at the Department of Energy and to provide …
What 1 TRILLION Dollars Looks Like In Dollar Bills – scroll to the bottom of the page to see the complete range of illustrations. Note that the size of the person changes dramatically as the scale is defined. Related postings on financial system
Follow up to April 16, 2009, Vision of High-Speed Rail in America, from the WSJ: Spain’s Bullet Train Changes Nation — and Fast – “The growth of the Alta Velocidad Española, or AVE, is having a profound effect on life in Spain, where many people have been fiercely attached to their home regions and reluctant …
Via NPR – Marketplace: “U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water _ contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation.” See also: “graphic shows location of codeine-producing factories near area where a water sample taken …
An Updated Annual Energy Outlook 2009 Reference Case (04/17/2009): “This report updates the Reference Case presented in the Annual Energy Outlook 2009 based on recently enacted legislation and the changing macroeconomic environment. U.S. Coal Supply and Demand: 2008 Review (04/15/2009): “This article provides an overview of the year 2008 in the coal industry and covers …
George Stephanopoulos: “White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said on “This Week” Sunday that he believes the government has enough resources on hand that the Obama administration will not have to go back to Congress to ask for more bailout money for the nation’s troubled banks. Emanuel also said he believes the government will …
