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American political spending tops $1 billion what it means for business | Eric Garlands Competitive Futures Blog - Forecasting, Strategy, Intelligence, Opinion

19 hours ago ago from Eric Garland's Competitive Futures Blog

Throughout the past decade, Competitive Futures has been forecasting an increased role in government relations and lobbying for many major industries. The pharmaceutical industry has increasing reliance on governments, who are far and away their biggest customer. The increased prevalence of Asian manufacturing has made trade regulations a bigger factor in competition. Of course, this has finally gone into overdrive this year, as governments ...

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Government gives up on steel industry - Ian Swales

19 hours ago ago from Chris and Glynis Abbott

Any hope that the Government will support the local steel industry while it looks for a buyer who will invest in the site looks to be over. A £60m package of investment announced by the Government makes no mention of a future steel industry. Lord Mandleson, speaking after a meeting with the area's business and political leaders, said the investment was designed to help the area's transition beyond traditional heavy industry. He seems to have ...

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1 hour, 14 minutes ago ago from OJR

By Robert Niles: Last week's Federal Trade Commission hearings on the journalism industry beg the question: Just what should the U.S. federal government be doing, if anything, to help the journalism industry? Plenty. Now, before the libertarians within online news community fire up their torches for my march to the stake, hear me out. OJR's David Westphal last week detailed the many ways that government has, uh, helped the news business in ...

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Written Ministerial Statements

13 hours ago ago from Washminster

It's worth keeping an eye on Hansard - not just for what was said in the Chamber - but for the Written Ministerial Statements. You can see the details of last Thursday's WMSs here . It was practice before 2002 for written questions to be used for important, but not major,statements to be made. The most important were, and still are, made to the Chamber itself - allowing the opportunity for further questioning. A government backbencher ...

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White House to release new gov't data collections

20 hours ago ago from U.S. News

White House to release new gov't data collections WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House on Tuesday instructed every federal agency to publish before the end of January at least three collections of "high value" government data on the Internet that never have been previously disclosed, an ambitious order to make the administration as transparent as President Barack Obama had promised it would be. It was not immediately clear what types of ...

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White House Orders Agencies to Open Up

22 hours ago ago from Wired.com

Sections White House Orders Agencies to Open Up The Obama administration released a long-awaited openness directive Tuesday, ordering ornery federal agencies to comply with its government sunshine promises, including creating interactive open-government web pages and publishing three new raw-data sets in 45 days. The so-called Open Government Directive (.pdf) aims to give rules to ...

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US seeks fine from company in immigration case

21 hours ago ago from FanHouse

DETROIT -The government's immigration agency is seeking more than $40,000 from a Detroit-area company accused of failing to properly complete nearly 100 eligibility forms for workers. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said an audit in March turned up problems at Applied Plastic Products in Macomb County's Ira Township. "These violations include failing to ... ensure that an employee attests to the fact that he is authorized to work in the ...

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