SBA Veterans Assistance Programs: An Analysis of Contemporary Issues

[Excerpt] This report opens with an examination of the economic circumstances of veteran-owned businesses drawn from the Bureau of the Census’s 2012 Survey of Business Owners (SBO). It then provides a brief overview of veterans’ employment experiences, comparing unemployment and labor force participation rates for veterans, veterans who have left the military since September 2001, and nonveterans. The report also describes employment assistance programs offered by several federal agencies to assist veterans in their transition from the military to the civilian labor force and examines, in greater detail, the SBA’s veteran business development programs, the SBA’s efforts to assist veterans’ access to capital, and the SBA’s veteran contracting programs. It also discusses the SBA’s Military Reservist Economic Injury Disaster Loan program and P.L. 114-38, the Veterans Entrepreneurship Act of 2015, which authorized and made permanent the SBA’s recent practice of waiving the SBAExpress loan program’s one time, up-front loan guarantee fee for veterans (and their spouse)

Federal campaign committees vary in their reliance on highincome, high education, urban, and highly partisan districts forcontributions

Recent election cycles in the U.S. have seen a massive increase in fundraising by political campaign committees. In new research, Robert C. Lowry finds that these committees do not all raise money from the same kinds of communities. Studying itemized contributions by individuals to campaign committees, he writes that competitive districts generate more contributions to local candidates running in those districts, but there are fewer predicted contributions to many other kinds of committee. He also finds that the contributions made can be greatly affected by the district’s levels of income, education and urbanization

Clustered Sporophytes In Mosses

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Chromosome Numbers And Relationships In The Genus Atrichum In North America

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Test for contamination of water at Well 103, South Well Field, Columbus, Ohio

The City of Columbus, Ohio is currently developing a glacial aquifer as a source of water for municipal use. Three radial collectors well have been emplaced in the aquifer along the Scioto River; one has been emplaced in the aquifer along Big Walnut Creek. This study determines whether continuous pumping of one well, Well 103, will result in contamination of the glacial aquifer with highly mineralized water from the underlying carbonate aquifer. Chemical analyses of water collected from the glacial aquifer indicate that contamination has not occurred at Well 103. The parameters measured varied insignificantly throughout the 113 days (October 6, 1983 to January 27, 1984) of this study. Calcium averaged 103.8 mg/l. Magnesium averaged 38.0 mg/l which is below the limit of 125 mg/l placed on drinking water by the U.S. EPA (1975) . However, hydrogen sulfide appeared in the glacial aquifer in December with an average concentration of 1.15 mg/l. The sulfide concentration is above the limit of 0.05 mg/l placed on drinking water by the U.S. EPA (1975). Continued monitoring of the other parameters may show a gradual increase if the sulfide is an indication of interaction between the glacial and carbonate aquifer.No embarg

Employment for Veterans: Trends and Programs

[Excerpt] Veterans’ employment outcomes in the civilian sector are an issue of ongoing congressional interest. A number of programs currently exist to assist veterans in obtaining or training for civilian employment. There is regular congressional debate about expanding or otherwise amending these programs to better serve veterans. This report discusses veterans’ employment trends and programs. The first section presents data on veterans’ employment outcomes, identifying recent trends, and discussing issues to consider when interpreting veterans’ employment data. The following sections present brief discussions of existing programs that provide employment-related services to veterans. These services are divided into (1) general programs that are broadly available to veterans, (2) programs that target veterans with service-connected disabilities, and (3) competitive grant programs that provide additional employment-related services to veterans but may be limited in scope or availability. Notably, this report does not attempt to provide an exhaustive list of all programs that may assist veterans in the labor market nor does it attempt to provide comprehensive information on the programs it discusses. Instead, it aims to provide a broad overview of the largest employment- related programs as well as other initiatives that may inform future policy. For detailed information on each program, readers are encouraged to refer to the CRS reports or other sources that are referenced in each section

Transparency and Accountability: Empirical Results for US States

Recent formal models of accountability allow us to make different conditional predictions about how transparency affects voters’ willingness to reelect incumbents and acceptance of higher taxes. We review two models and investigate empirical implications derived from or related to them, using panel data from 1972-2000 for U.S. state budget process transparency, gubernatorial elections, and tax increases in a small structural model. We do not find that budget transparency has a direct effect on incumbent retention, but we do find clear evidence that increased transparency dampens the negative effect of tax increases on retention of incumbent governors. Independent of this, we also find that increased transparency leads to greater fiscal scale. We suggest some possible directions for future models based on our results.Governmen