The Child Care and Development Block Grant: Background and Funding (open access)

The Child Care and Development Block Grant: Background and Funding

This report discusses the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), which provides subsidies to assist low-income families in obtaining child care so that parents can work or participate in education or training activities.
Date: September 17, 2014
Creator: Lynch, Karen E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Insurance Regulation: Issues, Background, and Legislation in the 113th Congress (open access)

Insurance Regulation: Issues, Background, and Legislation in the 113th Congress

This report discusses the legislation in the 113th Congress regarding insurance regulation. Among the insurance regulatory issues addressed by legislation in the 113th Congress are the application of federal orderly liquidation authority to insurers (addressed in H.R. 605); the supervision of some insurers by the Federal Reserve (addressed in H.R. 2140, H.R. 4510, H.R. 5461, S. 2102, and S. 2270); and the licensing of insurance agents and brokers (addressed in S. 534, S. 1926, S. 2244, H.R. 1155/H.R. 1064, and H.R. 4871).
Date: September 17, 2014
Creator: Webel, Baird
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance (open access)

Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance

This report discusses the current political state of Afghanistan and the Afghan government. It 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: September 17, 2014
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Armed Conflict in Syria: Overview and U.S. Response (open access)

Armed Conflict in Syria: Overview and U.S. Response

This report discusses the continuing conflict in Syria including recent regime losses in confrontations with forces of the Islamic State (IS, aka the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or ISIL/ISIS) in northeastern Syria. The report also covers Syrian chemical weapons disarmament and U.S. policy.
Date: September 17, 2014
Creator: Blanchard, Christopher M.; Humud, Carla E. & Nikitin, Mary Beth D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Increased Department of Defense Role in U.S. Ebola Response (open access)

Increased Department of Defense Role in U.S. Ebola Response

On September 16, 2014, President Obama announced a major increase in the United States response to the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The Department of Defense (DOD) submitted requests to Congress to make excess Overseas Contingency Operations funds appropriated for FY2014 available to support this effort. This report briefly outlines these requests.
Date: September 17, 2014
Creator: Jansen, Don J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Reform: Legal Analysis of Social Security Benefit Entitlement Issues (open access)

Social Security Reform: Legal Analysis of Social Security Benefit Entitlement Issues

This report addresses selected legal issues that may be raised regarding entitlement to Social Security benefits as Congress considers possible changes to the Social Security program in view of projected long-range shortfalls in the Social Security Trust Funds.
Date: September 17, 2014
Creator: Lanza, Emily M. & Nicola, Thomas J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Increased Department of Defense Role in U.S. Ebola Response (open access)

Increased Department of Defense Role in U.S. Ebola Response

This report discusses the Department of Defense's (DOD) requests to Congress to make excess Overseas Contingency Operations funds appropriated for FY2014 available to use in response to the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Date: September 17, 2014
Creator: Jansen, Don J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Credit Union Department Newsletter, Number 09-14, September 2014 (open access)

Credit Union Department Newsletter, Number 09-14, September 2014

Newsletter of the Texas Credit Union Department containing departmental news and announcements, deadlines, and other information of importance to credit unions.
Date: September 17, 2014
Creator: Texas. Credit Union Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History