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NCS: Occupational Wages in the United States, June 2006 — Summary (26 pages, PDF) 06/19/2007 Mass Layoffs (Monthly) 06/22/2007 Employer Costs for Employee Compensation 06/21/2007 Regional and State Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) 06/19/2007 See also: EU Minimum wages 2007 – variations from 92 to 1570 euro gross per month – Issue number 71/2007, release date …
The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2010 – “In this detailed white paper, IDC researches and analyzes the impact of ever-increasing amounts of digital information generated worldwide. It defines the digital universe and forecasts its growth to an incredible 988 exabytes (or 988 billion gigabytes) in the year 2010. Get …
Donald Tapscott’s White Paper: Winning With The Enterprise 2.0, “addresses the advantages and challenges of implementing E2 technologies.” (62 pages, PDF)
CBO A series of issue summaries from the Congressional Budget Office, June 20, 2007 – Explaining the Consumer Price Index “The consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) is the best-known official measure of inflation. Published monthly by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the CPI-U tries to approximate changes in the cost …
Press release: “The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempted his office from the presidential order that establishes government-wide procedures for safeguarding classified national security information. The Vice President asserts that his office is not an entity within the executive branch. As described in a letter …
From the Project for Excellence in Journalism study overview: “Exactly how many Americans are serving in Iraq and what they are doing there might not seem like complicated questions. Stories in the media regularly talk about the 150,000 U.S. military personnel in the Iraq theater. Coverage of events inside Iraq, which includes the actions of …
Follow up to June 17, 2007 posting, USPTO Begins Pilot Program to Open Patent Examination Process for Online Public Participation, see Peer Review Starts for Software Patent Applications – IEEE Spectrum talks to the founder to Peer-to-Patent Beth Noveck.
Bill to Provide for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and for Other Purposes, S. 1639 – Currently being debated in the Senate.
2007-P-00027 Overcoming Obstacles to Measuring Compliance: Practices in Selected Federal Agencies, [Report PDF – 36 pages] [At a Glance PDF] June 20, 2007.
Social Security Numbers: Federal Actions Could Further Decrease Availability in Public Records, though Other Vulnerabilities Remain, GAO-07-752, June 15, 2007: “Various public records in the United States, including some generated by the federal government, contain Social Security numbers (SSN) and other personal identifying information that could be used to commit fraud and identity theft. Public …
Press release: “The Central Intelligence Agency violated its charter for 25 years until revelations of illegal wiretapping, domestic surveillance, assassination plots, and human experimentation led to official investigations and reforms in the 1970s, according to declassified documents posted today on the Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. CIA director Gen. Michael …
D-2007-105 United States Transportation Command Compliance With DoD Policy on the Use of Commercial Sealift (June 21, 2007) (Project D2006-D000AB-0236.000)