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Released September 25, 2007: “This report presents results of the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in reading at grades 4 and 8. Results for students in the nation and in 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Department of Defense schools are reported as average scores and as percentages of students performing at …
Press release: “Presenting Federal Trade Commission testimony today before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciarys Task Force on Antitrust and Competition Policy, Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras provided an overview of the FTCs recent antitrust enforcement activities. Since the beginning of 2007, the Commission has had to be especially resourceful, as the number …
Department of Transporation Audit, Actions Needed to Minimize Long, On-Board Flight Delays, September 25, 2007, AV-2007-077 (44 pages, PDF). Summary: “On September 25, we issued our final audit report on Actions Needed To Minimize Long, On-Board Delays, in response to Secretary Peters’ request to examine long, on-board delays. What we found is that the severity …
“The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, which had declined in August, fell further in September. The Index now stands at 99.8 (1985=100), down from 105.6 in August. The Present Situation Index decreased to 121.7 from 130.1. The Expectations Index declined to 85.2 from 89.2.”
HHS OIG: Assessing States’ Progress in Meeting State Children’s Health Insurance Program Goals (OEI-05-07-00330) (36 pages, PDF), September 24, 2007
Press release, September 18, 2007: “USA.gov, the federal governments official web portal, has won the international Government Standard of Excellence in the Web Marketing Associations 2007 WebAward, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced today…The award recognizes USA.gov which is managed by GSAs Office of Citizen Services and Communication – as one of the …
Press release: “Restoring the Great Lakes to health will create $50 billion in economic benefit for the region, a new cost-benefit analysis conducted by the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program finds. According to Healthy Waters, Strong Economy: The Benefits of Restoring the Great Lakes Ecosystem (16 pages, PDF), efforts to improve the health of the …
US Supreme Court 2007-2008 Case List
Jane Horvath, Senior Privacy Counsel at Google, has posted links to two YouTube videos providing users with details about privacy practices and personalizing your search.
Press release: “For the second consecutive year, the estimated number of violent crimes in the nation increased, and for the fourth year in a row, the estimated number of property crimes decreased. According to statistics released today by the FBI, the estimated volume of violent crime increased 1.9 percent, and the estimated volume of property …
On September 24, 2007, the Joint Committee on Taxation issued Estimates of Federal Tax Expenditures For Fiscal Years 2007-2011 (JCS-3-07)
Press release: “Committee on Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) and Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology Chairman James R. Langevin (D-RI) sent a letter on Friday to Richard L. Skinner, Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security to request an investigation into cyber attacks on the Department initiated …