The new consumer bureau is based on a pretty simple idea: people ought to be able to read their credit card and mortgage contracts and know the deal.
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In a recent study, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau looked at scores based on 200, 000 credit reports to evaluate the differences between FICO and Vantage scores, as well as scores typically provided to consumers and those sold to lenders.
But the rate of long-term unemployment, 3 percent in January, is precisely triple its 2001-07 average, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek calculation based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data. (Those two rates 4.9 percent and 3 percent add up to the overall unemployment rate of 7.9 percent.) A striking statistic: The long-term unemployed make up 38 percent of all workers without jobs, double the average share and just a few notches down from the 2010-11 peak of 45 percent.
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There are 210, 544 federal inmates (count based on Federal Bureau of Prison count in August 2010) and FPI provides 19, 000 jobs to them.
Alabama, California, Delaware, Illinois and North Carolina were among states reporting inmate populations significantly above their intended capacity, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report based on 2009 data.
However, he did say that the bureau will rely on browser-based encryption and a user identification number found on each of the census short forms to authenticate users.
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Lewis Perling, a defense attorney for the Atlanta-based credit bureau, declined to comment on the litigation.
If Allen and Petraeus did not approach the FBI, the bureau could not have justified its probe based on a charge of cyberharassment.
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The bureau will then pay each of the rating centers, based on its performance.
The FBI took over the investigation earlier this month, after the justice department realised it would not be able to bring charges based on the guards' statements to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, reported AP.
Stated differently, based on the data provided by the Census Bureau and the Internal Revenue Service, the relative tax burden of the top 5% of American earners compared with the remaining 95% has grown from roughly three-to-one prior to 1980 to almost six-to-one today.
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Based on statistics gathered by the US Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in the country's wide-ranging manufacturing sector fell below 12 million in 2009.
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Airlines have posted an average 6.3% increase in the number of February passengers during leap year because of the extra day, based on the past eight years' data from the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Stewart, a former agent for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, gathers intelligence on the cartels for Stratfor, a Texas-based security consulting firm that helped document Guzman's worth.
Using data from the Census Bureau, economists Jaison Abel and Richard Deitz divided occupations into three groups based on skill level.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation provides detailed crime statistics every year, but warns against creating rankings solely based on their data, since they are individually reported by agencies and reflect vastly different socioeconomic circumstances.
Our story on Unilever's food laboratory comes from Michael Freedman, Forbes' European bureau chief based in London.
The report was the result of a collaboration with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ), an organisation based at City University which works with media organisations on investigative stories.
However, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, an arm of the Justice Department, cautioned that the previous study was based on a survey of current inmates in both state and federal institutions.
Mr. Rogers, a former FBI agent, defended the bureau's handling of the inquiry into Mr. Tsnarnaev, saying it acted as would be expected based on the information it had.
Cleverly called The FBI File on Steve Jobs: By the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the book, says New York-based Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
The workshop was organized by the Haburas Foundation, the Timor-Leste National Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science for Asia and the Pacific (based in Jakarta) and took place in Dili, Timor Leste, on 7-8 June 2011.
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