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FEMA Announcements
FEMA Encourages Personal Preparedness This Storm Season
While the federal government takes steps to prepare for this hurricane season, we encourage individuals to do the same. Personal preparedness can reduce the risk of storm dangers during and immediately after a storm.
Jul 8, 2008 - 10:37:00 AM
IRS Tax Tips
IRS Tax Tip: Gambling Winnings and Losses
Your summer vacation may mean a trip to the casino or the racetrack. What will you owe Uncle Sam if Lady Luck happens to be on your side?
Jul 8, 2008 - 10:27:23 AM
Health News | Health Resources
Report Offers Resources for Home Health Care Response During a Flu Pandemic
Home Health Care During an Influenza Pandemic: Issues and Resources, a report identifying home health care as a critical component in providing care during a pandemic influenza event and offering resources to home health care providers and community planners to prepare for such an event.
Jul 8, 2008 - 10:17:48 AM
Job Search
Green Jobs and Industries – a digest of studies and reports
What is a "Green" industry or occupation? There are many aspects of work that could be considered green, such as new materials, methods, products, and services.
Jul 8, 2008 - 9:57:46 AM
Identity Theft
Identity Theft: Red Flag regulations Require Financial Institutions and Creditors to Have Identity Theft Prevention Programs
Financial institutions and creditors are now required to develop and implement written identity theft prevention programs under the new "Red Flags Rules."
Jul 8, 2008 - 9:54:56 AM
Health News | Health Resources
Troubled Teens Boot Camp: FTC Urges Caution When Considering Boot Camps
When parents or guardians are considering finding a residential treatment program for a troubled teenager, the decision is often a difficult one.
Jul 8, 2008 - 9:46:57 AM
Announcements
Genetic Test Cease-And-Desist Notices: California Isues Notices
The California Department of Public Health has issued notices to 13 laboratories to cease and desist performing genetic testing for California residents until the laboratories meet the requirements specified in state law.
Jul 7, 2008 - 11:48:47 AM
Education Related News
Student Loans: Avoiding Deceptive Offers
The U.S. Department of Education and Federal Trade Commission have jointly released a consumer guide to help students and their families navigate the maze of offers they may face when seeking new student loans or consolidating existing student loans to pay for higher education. Student Loans: Avoiding Deceptive Offers provides advice to help consumers detect deceptive marketing offers from private companies seeking their student loan business
Jul 7, 2008 - 11:40:50 AM
Census Bureau Announcements
Grandparents Day 2008: Sept. 7
There are 2.5 million grandparents as Caregivers in the U.S. The number of grandparents responsible for most of the basic needs (i.e., food, shelter, clothing) of one or more of the grandchildren who live with them. These grandparents represent about 40 percent of all grandparents whose grandchildren live with them. Of these caregivers, 1.6 million are grandmothers, and 896,000 are grandfathers.
Jul 7, 2008 - 8:29:48 AM
IRS Tax Tips
You May Be Eligible for the Advanced Earned Income Tax Credit
Why wait? You may be eligible for a tax credit right now that could mean larger paychecks this summer. This benefit is called the Advanced Earned Income Credit or Advance EIC.
Jul 7, 2008 - 6:51:20 AM
IRS Tax Tips
Retirement Plan Pitfalls - IRS's July Tax Talk Today
The Internal Revenue Service's Tax Talk Today program returns on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 2 p.m. with a Web cast on “Retirement Plan Pitfalls
Jul 6, 2008 - 8:15:44 PM
Things You Should Know
FTC Consumer Alert: Television is Going Digital: Get the Picture:
Big changes are coming to your television. But they have nothing to do with summer re-runs or the new fall season. These changes involve the transition to digital broadcasting on February 17, 2009.
Jul 3, 2008 - 9:13:39 PM
FEMA Announcements
Disaster Officials Urge Applicants to Save Receipts
If you received rental funds or other disaster aid as a result of the June storms, save your receipts, disaster-management officials said.
Jul 3, 2008 - 9:09:59 PM
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Drug Testing: New DOT Rule Makes Cheating on Drug Testing Harder
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters announced today a new rule that will make it more difficult for transportation workers to cheat on their required drug tests by requiring drug testing labs to analyze every test for tampering
Jul 3, 2008 - 11:20:25 AM
Community Alerts
84,000 Fireworks recalled by Fireworks Over America
84,000 Fireworks recalled by Fireworks Over America
Jul 3, 2008 - 11:05:24 AM
Health News | Health Resources
What You Need to Know About Cholesterol
Heart disease is the number one killer of women and men in the U.S. Each year more than a million Americans have heart attacks, and about a half million people die from heart disease. High blood cholesterol is one of the major risk factors for heart disease. When there is too much cholesterol (a fat-like substance) in your blood, it builds up in the walls of your arteries.
Jul 3, 2008 - 8:06:01 AM
DOL | Federal OSHA | Cal-OSHA Related Information
Working at home in 2007
Multiple jobholders were much more likely to work at home than were single jobholders—31 versus 18 percent.
Jul 3, 2008 - 7:58:46 AM
Announcements
Opening of Military Airspace for July Fourth Weekend
The U.S. military will again make airspace available for commercial airline flights off the East Coast during the July Fourth weekend to help reduce delays for air travelers, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters announced today. The airspace released by the military over the upcoming weekend will allow airlines to plan alternate routes in one of the country’s most heavily flown aviation corridors.
Jul 3, 2008 - 7:41:43 AM
Environmental News | Science News
What Makes the Colors in Fireworks?
Every Independence Day, Americans all around the country are drawn to
spectacular fireworks displays. But what makes the colors so vivid?
Jul 3, 2008 - 7:41:34 AM
Community Tools
Travel Tips for Busy Summer Season
In anticipation of the busy summer travel season, U.S. Customs and Border Protection provides a few travel tips, if you are traveling abroad, returning home or visiting the United States or its Territories:
Jul 3, 2008 - 7:34:48 AM
Housing and Mortgage News
Brown Sues Countrywide For Mortgage Deception
California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today sued Countrywide Financial, its chief executive Angelo Mozilo, and president David Sambol, for engaging in deceptive advertising and unfair competition by pushing homeowners into mass-produced, risky loans for the sole purpose of reselling the mortgages on the secondary market.
Jul 2, 2008 - 12:13:36 PM
CDC Health Advisory Notices & Announcements
Hand Hygiene Saves Lives: Patient Admission Video
This video, available in English and Spanish, teaches two key points to hospital patients and visitors to help prevent infections: the importance of practicing hand hygiene while in the hospital, and that it is appropriate to ask or remind their healthcare providers to practice hand hygiene as well.
Jul 2, 2008 - 12:06:24 PM
Census Bureau Announcements
Labor Day 2008: Sept. 1, Facts, Features & Statistics
The first observance of Labor Day is believed to have been a parade of 10,000 workers on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City, organized by Peter J. McGuire, a Carpenters and Joiners Union secretary. By 1893, more than half the states were observing a “Labor Day” on one day or another, and Congress passed a bill to establish a federal holiday in 1894. President Grover Cleveland signed the bill soon afterward, designating the first Monday in September as Labor Day.
Jul 2, 2008 - 12:02:27 PM
DOL | Federal OSHA | Cal-OSHA Related Information
Cal/OSHA issues workplace advisory for Northern California workers
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH or Cal/OSHA) is advising employers and workers in Northern California to protect themselves from the smoke created by the many wildfires burning around the state if they are required to work outdoors.
Jul 2, 2008 - 11:54:37 AM
Announcements
Don’t Let Sparks Fly This 4th of July
With the July 4 holiday approaching, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is reminding the traveling public that they are not permitted to carry fireworks, including the smallest sparklers, aboard aircraft. This includes both carry-on and checked bags because of the tremendous fire risk they pose to aircraft in the air and on the ground. Fines for passengers who break the rules are stiff.
Jul 2, 2008 - 8:11:26 AM
