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“The United States Code is the codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. It is divided by broad subjects into 50 titles and published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives. Since 1926, the United States Code has been published every …
News release: “The Treasury Department today announced that it will purchase $5 billion in senior preferred equity with an 8% dividend from GMAC LLC as part of a broader program to assist the domestic automotive industry in becoming financially viable. Under the agreement GMAC must be in compliance with the executive compensation and corporate governance …
Bureau of Economic Analysis full release and tables: “Personal Income and Outlays, November 2008: Personal income decreased $20.7 billion, or 0.2 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI) decreased $11.8 billion, or 0.1 percent, in November, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) decreased $56.1 billion, or 0.6 percent. In October, personal …
Kingston Update Page: “TVA, local, state and federal agencies continue to work on recovery and clean up of a release of ash caused by a failure of a coal fly ash containment retention wall at TVAs Kingston Fossil Plant in East Tennessee….An aerial survey completed last week shows that about 5.4 million cubic yards of …
News release: “Insured U.S. commercial banks reported $6.0 billion in revenues from trading cash and derivative instruments in the third quarter, compared to revenues of $1.6 billion in the second quarter of 2008, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency reported today in the OCCs Quarterly Report on Bank Trading and Derivatives Activities: Third …
8 Events that Shook the Industry in 2008 – From Hurricanes to Ponzi Schemes, it Was a Year of Disasters, Linda McGlasson, Managing Editor, Bank Info Security: “The year 2008 was marked with significant milestones. Major banks and investment firms around the globe foundered, failed and were acquired or propped up by their governments and …
News release: “State and local government defined-benefit employee retirement systems paid $168 billion to 7.5 million retirees and survivors in fiscal year 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. This is a $12 billion increase from the previous year when 7.3 million received payments. There were 2,547 retirement systems in 2007, with memberships of 18.6 …
News release: ” As our nation prepares to ring in the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau today projected the Jan. 1, 2009, total U.S. population will be 305,529,237 up 2,743,429, or 0.9 percent, from New Years Day 2008. In January 2009, one birth is expected to occur every eight seconds in the United …
“Information technology (IT) and broadband are major drivers of research, innovation, economic growth and social change. The 2008 edition of the OECD Information Technology Outlook analyses recent developments in the IT goods and services industries, and suggests that the outlook is for continued long-term growth, constrained by the currently very uncertain macroeconomic environment in OECD …
The Recent Surge in Homicides involving Young Black Males and Guns: Time to Reinvest in Prevention and Crime Control, December 2008, James Alan Fox, Ph.D., The Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice, and Professor of Law, Policy & Society and Marc L. Swatt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University Summary of Findings: “While …
News release: “The incomes of American families with children have become increasingly stratified since 1975, with income inequality increasing two-thirds during a 30-year period, according to findings published in the December issue of the peer-reviewed science journal American Sociological Review. The gap between the haves and the have-nots is widening for families with children in …
New York Times: “The National Archives has put into effect an emergency plan to handle electronic records from the Bush White House amid growing doubts about whether its new $144 million computer system can cope with the vast quantities of digital data it will receive when President Bush leaves office on Jan. 20. The technical …
