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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 0.5 percent in the third quarter of 2008, (that is, from the second quarter to the third quarter), according to final estimates released by the …
News release: “The U.S. Treasury Department announced today details of a $2.8 billion investment in 49 banks made on Friday, December 19 through its Capital Purchase Program. Treasury also closed $1.9 billion in transactions with 43 banks today. Full details of today’s transactions will be released in accordance with the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act on …
Factors Underlying the Decline in Manufacturing Employment Since 2000 – December 23, 2008, Economic and Budget Issue Brief “The manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy has experienced substantial job losses since 2000. During the recession of 2001 and its immediate aftermath, employment in the manufacturing sector fell by about 2.9 million jobs, or 17 percent. …
Historical Effective Tax Rates, 1979 to 2005: Supplement with Additional Data on Sources of Income and High-Income Households, December 23, 2008, Letter to the Honorable Max Baucus, Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance.
News release: “The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision issued their second report on mortgage performance today showing continued increases in delinquencies and foreclosures in process. While delinquencies, foreclosures in process, and other actions leading to home forfeiture continued to rise, newly initiated foreclosures dropped by 2.6 percent …
“The U.S. Department of Justices Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) has released a booklet highlighting key efforts supported by Global, including the vigilant preservation of privacy and civil liberties; fusion center partnerships; securing exchanged data and networks; and harnessing the power of the latest innovations so that new technology and standardized languages knock down …
AP: “More than 100 million people living in 46 metro areas are breathing air that has gotten too full of soot on some days, and now those cities have to clean up their air, the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday. The EPA added 15 cities to the sooty air list, mostly in states not usually …
News release and Tables: “In November, employers took 2,328 mass layoff actions, seasonally adjusted, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Each action involved at least 50 persons from a single employer; the number of workers involved …
BEA: County Compensation by Industry, 2007, Full Release and Tables: “County Compensation by Industry, 2007 Total compensation of U.S. workers grew 5.2% in 2007 and most counties shared in that growth, according to statistics released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Compensation grew in over 90% of the 3,111 counties in the U.S., …
December 12, 2008 – U.S.-Iraq Withdrawal/Status of Forces Agreement: Issues for Congressional Oversight December 11, 2008 – The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Final Part B Regulations December 08, 2008 – Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act of 1979: Background, Provisions, and Cost December 03, 2008 – Financial Market Turmoil and U.S. Macroeconomic Performance December 03, …
Defense Logistics: Improved Analysis and Cost Data Needed to Evaluate the Cost-effectiveness of Performance Based Logistics, GAO-09-41, December 19, 2008 DOD Personnel Clearances: Preliminary Observations about Timeliness and Quality, GAO-09-261R, December 19, 2008 United Nations Peacekeeping: Challenges Obtaining Needed Resources Could Limit Further Large Deployments and Should Be Addressed in U.S. Reports to Congress, GAO-09-142, …
An Investigation of Overtime Payments to FBI and Other Department of Justice Employees Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, December 2008 “This investigation began in October 2007 when an FBI employee (who asked to remain anonymous) alleged to the OIG that FBI agents were paid for working 16 hours per day, 7 days per week (112 …
