Food Price Inflation: Causes and Impacts (open access)

Food Price Inflation: Causes and Impacts

This report discusses multiple factors that attribute to rising food prices in the United States of America.
Date: April 10, 2008
Creator: Capehart, Tom & Richardson, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library
East Asia’s Foreign Exchange Rate Policies (open access)

East Asia’s Foreign Exchange Rate Policies

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Date: April 10, 2008
Creator: Martin, Michael F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) (open access)

Summary of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) provides a comprehensive federal scheme for the regulation of employee pension and welfare benefit plans offered by employers. ERISA contains various provisions intended to protect the rights of plan participants and beneficiaries in employee benefit plans. These protections include requirements relating to reporting and disclosure, participation, vesting, and benefit accrual, as well as plan funding. ERISA also regulates the responsibilities of plan fiduciaries and other issues regarding plan administration. ERISA contains various standards that a plan must meet in order to receive favorable tax treatment, and also governs plan termination. This report provides background on the pension laws prior to ERISA, discusses various types of employee benefit plans governed by ERISA, provides an overview of ERISA’s requirements, and includes a glossary of commonly used terms.
Date: April 10, 2008
Creator: Purcell, Patrick & Staman, Jennifer
System: The UNT Digital Library
Messages, Petitions, Communications, and Memorials to Congress (open access)

Messages, Petitions, Communications, and Memorials to Congress

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Date: April 10, 2008
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trends in U.S. Global AIDS Spending: FY2000-FY2008 (open access)

Trends in U.S. Global AIDS Spending: FY2000-FY2008

This report describes how HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria are interlinked and exacerbate efforts to control each disease, but primarily addresses funding issues related to U.S. global HIV/AIDS initiatives. It provides background information on the key U.S. agencies that implement global HIV/AIDS programs, analyzes U.S. spending on HIV/AIDS by U.S. agency and department, and presents some issues Congress might consider, particularly as debate on the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) reauthorization ensues.
Date: April 10, 2008
Creator: Salaam-Blyther, Tiaji
System: The UNT Digital Library
Farm Bill Legislative Action in the 110th Congress (open access)

Farm Bill Legislative Action in the 110th Congress

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Date: April 10, 2008
Creator: Johnson, Renée; Becker, Geoffrey S.; Capehart, Tom; Chite, Ralph M.; Cowan, Tadlock; Gorte, Ross W. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Taiwan’s 2008 Presidential Election (open access)

Taiwan’s 2008 Presidential Election

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Date: April 10, 2008
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Advertising Law: An Overview (open access)

Federal Advertising Law: An Overview

This report provides a brief overview of federal law with respect to six selected advertising issues: alcohol advertising, tobacco advertising, the federal trade commission act, advertising by mail, advertising by telephone, and commercial e-mail.
Date: April 10, 2008
Creator: Cohen, Henry
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Enterprise Architecture and E-Government: Issues for Information Technology Management (open access)

Federal Enterprise Architecture and E-Government: Issues for Information Technology Management

This report explains the issues for information technology management on the federal enterprise architecture and e-government.
Date: April 10, 2008
Creator: Seifert, Jeffrey W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Judicial Review of Removal Orders (open access)

Judicial Review of Removal Orders

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Date: April 10, 2008
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Queen-of-the-Hill Rules in the House of Representatives (open access)

Queen-of-the-Hill Rules in the House of Representatives

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Date: April 10, 2008
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Government Formation and Performance (open access)

Afghanistan: Government Formation and Performance

This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan, as well as the Afghan government. This report also discusses Afghanistan's relationship with the United States, particularly U.S. efforts to urge President Hamid Karzai to address corruption within the Afghan government.
Date: April 10, 2008
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safe Drinking Water Act: Selected Regulatory and Legislative Issues (open access)

Safe Drinking Water Act: Selected Regulatory and Legislative Issues

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Date: April 10, 2008
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tibet: Problems, Prospects, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Tibet: Problems, Prospects, and U.S. Policy

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Date: April 10, 2008
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2009 (open access)

Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2009

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Date: April 10, 2008
Creator: Sargent, John F.; Matthews, Christine M.; Moteff, John D.; Morgan, Daniel; Esworthy, Robert; Schacht, Wendy H. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
HUD Proposes Administrative Modifications to the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (open access)

HUD Proposes Administrative Modifications to the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act

This report focuses on borrower disclosure, particularly with respect to making all pertinent information about loan terms and settlement costs transparent, so that consumers can make well-informed financial decisions when choosing mortgage products.
Date: April 10, 2008
Creator: Getter, Darryl E.
System: The UNT Digital Library