Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response: The SAFER Grant Program (open access)

Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response: The SAFER Grant Program

This report discusses Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Act, which was enacted by the 108th Congress as Section 1057 of the FY2004 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 108-136). It includes background of the SAFER Act, appropriations from FY2010-FY2011, reauthorization of the program in the House and Senate, and information about program implementation.
Date: July 4, 2010
Creator: Kruger, Lennard G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Foreign Ownership of U.S. Financial Assets: Implications of a Withdrawal (open access)

Foreign Ownership of U.S. Financial Assets: Implications of a Withdrawal

This report provides an overview of the role foreign investment plays in the U.S. economy. It also includes an assessment of possible actions a foreign investor or a group of foreign investors might choose to take to liquidate their investments in the United States.
Date: July 4, 2008
Creator: Jackson, James K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sri Lanka: Background and U.S. Relations (open access)

Sri Lanka: Background and U.S. Relations

This report provides historical, political, and economic background on Sri Lanka and examines U.S.-Sri Lankan relations and policy concerns. Congressional interest in Sri Lanka has focused on renewed and serious violent ethnic conflict in a quarter-century-old civil war, an attendant humanitarian emergency, and efforts to revive a moribund peace process.
Date: July 4, 2009
Creator: Kronstadt, K. Alan & Vaughn, Bruce
System: The UNT Digital Library