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U.S. Postal Service Primer: Answers to Key Questions About Reform Issues, Report to Congressional Committees
From the Highlights: "USPS [United States Postal Service] is the largest postal service in the world, delivering an estimated 49 percent of all mail sent globally and playing a critical role in the nation's communications and commerce. Congress designed USPS to be a self-sustaining entity that, like a business, would cover its operating costs primarily with revenues from selling certain products and services. However, starting in fiscal year 2007, USPS's expenses began exceeding its revenue. This has led to total net losses of $87 billion from fiscal years 2007 through 2020, and $188 billion in total unfunded liabilities and debt as of the end of fiscal year 2020. GAO [Government Accountability Office] created this primer to help explain why USPS's financial condition has deteriorated so dramatically and to discuss some options for addressing the situation."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2021-09
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IT Modernization: USDA Needs to Improve Oversight of Farm Production and Conservation Mission Area, Report to Congressional Requesters
From the Highlights: "In 2017, USDA combined three of its agencies under the FPAC [Farm Production and Conservation] mission area to, among other things, improve customer service for farmers, ranchers, and foresters. For fiscal year 2020, FPAC reported obligating a total of $229 million on IT [information technology] investments to support its mission. GAO [Government Accountability Office] was requested to review USDA's IT modernization efforts to improve customer service for farmers and ranchers. For this report, GAO examined the extent to which (1) USDA and FPAC are effectively overseeing the development of Farmers.gov; and (2) FPAC's IT workforce planning, efforts to reduce duplication and overlap, and customer service are consistent with leading practices."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2021-09
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Electricity Grid Resilience
From the Document: "Presidential Policy Directive 21 established national policy on critical infrastructure and resilience in February 2013. The directive defines resilience as the ability to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and to withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions. Such disruptions include naturally occurring threats or incidents, deliberate attacks, and accidents. This brief draws from recent GAO [Government Accountability Office] reports on natural and human-caused risks to the electricity grid. It also highlights GAO recommendations that had not been implemented as of September 2021."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2021-09
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Analysis of the Navy's Fiscal Year 2022 Shipbuilding Plan
From the Document: "In June 2021, the Department of Defense submitted to the Congress the Navy's 30-year shipbuilding plan for fiscal year 2022. The Congressional Budget Office is required by law to analyze that plan and assess its costs. The agency's assessment is the subject of this report. In its 2022 plan, the Navy provided less information than it has in most previous plans; CBO's analysis was limited to the information that the Navy provided."
United States. Congressional Budget Office
Labs, Eric Jackson
2021-09
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Assessment Report (S8918P) Independent Racial Disparity Review Six-Month Assessment (September 2021)
From the Executive Summary: "The Racial Disparity Review (RDR) was initiated by the Secretary of the Air Force to assess racial disparity in personnel development, military discipline, and career opportunities as they pertain to Black/African American Airmen and Guardians (military and civilians). The scope has since been expanded to include other minority groups and a second survey and data collection effort was launched to look at potential disparities across gender and ethnicity lines as well (results and release timing TBD [to be determined]). The Air Force Inspector General released the findings from the initial review in December 2020 and confirmed there is much work to be done to address disparities in a number of key policy areas. The review validated 16 disparities for Black/African American Airmen and Guardians, nine of which fall within A1 [Manpower and Personnel] policy oversight."
United States. Department of the Air Force. Office of the Inspector General
2021-09
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Improving Food and Nutrition Security During COVID-19, the Economic Recovery, and Beyond
From the Executive Summary: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has had a significantly adverse impact on food and nutrition security, though this was mitigated by increased support for federal food and nutrition programs. Poverty increased as businesses closed and families experienced job losses. Access, availability, and affordability of nutritious foods has been challenging given consumer financial constraints and supply chain disruptions. [...] This brief is the first in a series of three by the Bipartisan Policy Center's Food and Nutrition Security Task Force and provides recommendations for bipartisan, consensus-based recommendations for improving food and nutrition security during COVID-19 and the economic recovery. Implementation of the policy recommendations in this brief can also support food and nutrition security during future public health emergencies, economic downturns, and recessions. [...] The Bipartisan Policy Center's Food and Nutrition Security Task Force makes [...] nine high-level policy recommendations to improve food and nutrition security in response to COVID-19 and the economic recovery[.]"
Bipartisan Policy Center
Bipartisan Policy Center. Food and Nutrition Security Task Force
2021-09
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Report of Inquiry (S8918P) Disparity Review (September 2021)
From the Introduction: "The Secretary of the Air Force (SecAF), Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF), and Chief of Space Operations (CSO) directed the Department of the Air Force Inspector General (DAF-IG) to conduct analysis into racial, gender, and ethnic disparities in the DAF. This Independent Disparity Review, referred to as the 'DR' throughout this document, builds upon the 2020 Independent Racial Disparity Review (RDR) released in December 2020, which focused on disparities in discipline and opportunities affecting Black Airmen and Guardians. The DR expands on the RDR by addressing disparities in discipline and opportunities for females, as well as Asian American, Native American, Pacific Islander, and Hispanic/Latino racial and ethnic minorities."
United States. Department of the Air Force. Office of the Inspector General
2021-09
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Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States: A Focus on Six Impacts
From the Executive Summary: "Climate change affects all Americans--regardless of socioeconomic status--and many impacts are projected to worsen as temperatures and sea levels continue to rise, snow and rainfall patterns shift, and some extreme weather events become more common. A growing body of literature focuses on the disproportionate and unequal risks that climate change is projected to have on communities that are least able to anticipate, cope with, and recover from adverse impacts. Many studies have discussed climate change impacts on socially vulnerable populations, but few have quantified disproportionate risks to socially vulnerable groups across multiple impacts and levels of global warming. This report contributes to a better understanding of the degree to which four socially vulnerable populations--defined based on income, educational attainment, race and ethnicity, and age--may be more exposed to the highest impacts of climate change in six categories: Air Quality and Health; Extreme Temperature and Health; Extreme Temperature and Labor; Coastal Flooding and Traffic; Coastal Flooding and Property; and Inland Flooding and Property." This document includes charts, tables, and graphs to illustrate the text.
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Atmospheric Programs
2021-09
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Solar Futures Study
From the Executive Summary: "Dramatic improvements to solar technologies and other clean energy technologies have enabled recent rapid growth in deployment and are providing cost-effective options for decarbonizing the U.S. electric grid. 'The Solar Futures Study' explores the role of solar in decarbonizing the grid. Through state-of-the-art modeling, the study envisions deep grid decarbonization by 2035, as driven by a required emissions-reduction target. It also explores how electrification could enable a low-carbon grid to extend decarbonization to the broader energy system (the electric grid plus all direct fuel use in buildings, transportation, and industry) through 2050."
United States. Department of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Ardani, Kristen; Denholm, P. (Paul); Mai, Trieu . . .
2021-09
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Creating a Blueprint for the Future: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Michigan
From the Summary: "In January 2020, the World Health Organization announced an outbreak in China tied to respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus. Since that time, the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has caused more than 1 million infections and 21,000 deaths in the state of Michigan. [...] The Public Health Advisory Council is responsible for providing advice about emerging issues in public health and providing recommendations to the Governor as to optimum practice, delivery, and response of governmental public health in Michigan. The council has come together to produce a brief that highlights lessons learned from the successes as well as the challenges from pandemic response, while offering guidance on future directions. This document seeks to examine the public health experience during COVID-19 and identify recommendations for consideration to enable the state to be better prepared to meet population health needs for future pandemics."
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
2021-09
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Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans: Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101, Version 3.0
From the Preface: "Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101 provides guidance from FEMA on the fundamentals of planning and developing emergency operations plans. The guide describes the steps to produce an emergency operation plan, possible plan structures and components of a base plan and its annexes. Other FEMA guides provide detailed information about planning considerations for specific functions, hazards and threats. CPG 101 is a key resource in the emergency management community. While much of the core content in CPG 101 Version 2.0, released in 2010, remains fundamentally valid, a refresh of the document allows for inclusion of additional concepts, principles and strategies. The updated content in CPG 101 Version 3.0 is based on practitioner feedback, identified lessons learned and successful practices from real-world events and exercises that can inform the planning process. CPG 101 shows how emergency operations plans connect to planning efforts in all five mission areas. Version 3.0 of this guide emphasizes the importance of including the private and nonprofit sectors in planning activities and incorporates lessons learned as well as pertinent new doctrine, policy and laws."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2021-09
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Inflation in the Wake of COVID-19 [September 1, 2021]
From the Introduction: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has led to many unexpected and unprecedented economic developments. One of those developments is higher price inflation than the United States has experienced in recent decades. According to several measures, including the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Index, prices have risen more rapidly than usual on both a monthly and an annual basis for several months, most notably since March 2021. [...] Inflation is a policy concern for Congress in multiple ways. First, higher prices affect spending on government programs and the capacity of government programs at a given spending level. Second, high inflation is unpopular with the general public because it erodes purchasing power. Third, rising inflation might be a leading signal of an overheating economy. [...] This report begins by explaining what inflation is and how it is measured. It then discusses the costs of inflation, as well as the costs of inflation being too low. Next, it discusses the potential causes of inflation. Then it discusses the history of inflation in the United States since World War II. Finally, it analyzes the causes and implications of the current situation and prospects for future inflation."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Labonte, Marc; Weinstock, Lida R.
2021-09-01
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Potential FEMA Emergency Sheltering Options During the COVID-19 Pandemic [Updated September 1, 2021]
From the Document: "Some hazards (e.g., hurricanes, wildfires) may result in evacuations and the displacement of disaster survivors. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), state, local, tribal, and territorial governments (SLTTs) are responsible [hyperlink] for conducting emergency sheltering operations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [hyperlink] and FEMA [hyperlink] have provided SLTTs with guidance and assistance to safely shelter disaster survivors during the ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This Insight discusses emergency sheltering models used by FEMA, FEMA's pandemic-modified emergency sheltering policies [hyperlink], pandemic-related emergency sheltering challenges faced by SLTTs, and policy considerations for Congress."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Webster, Elizabeth M.; Lee, Erica A.
2021-09-01
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Bolivia: An Overview [Updated September 1, 2021]
From the Document: "After a year of political instability and more than a decade of tense relations with the United States, Bolivia has a new president who has vowed to work with the Biden Administration. Luis Arce took office in November 2020 after winning 55% of the vote in October 2020 elections in which his Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party maintained a legislative majority. President Arce is seeking to help Bolivia recover from the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and pursuing justice for human rights violations committed in 2019. [...] The COVID-19 pandemic, which had caused more than 18,400 deaths through August 2021, weakened demand for Bolivia's gas exports and pushed the country into a deep recession. The economy shrank by 7.7% in 2020, but the IMF [International Monetary Fund] predicts growth of 5.5% in 2021. Poverty increased, but the government lacked funding for social programs, aside from cash transfers to the poor paid for with a World Bank loan. A wealth tax enacted in December 2020 has raised some revenue, but the Arce government is seeking multilateral debt relief and foreign investment. International financial institutions likely would condition debt relief on fiscal adjustments, which have generated protests and impeded governability elsewhere in the region. As of September 1, 2021, the Bolivian government had fully vaccinated 23% of the population, according to Johns Hopkins University."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Seelke, Clare Ribando
2021-09-01
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Household Food Security in the United States in 2020
From the Abstract: "This report provides statistics on food security in U.S. households throughout 2020 based on the Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement data collected in December 2020. An estimated 89.5 percent of U.S. households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2020, with access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households (10.5 percent, unchanged from 10.5 percent in 2019) were food insecure at least some time during the year, including 3.9 percent with very low food security (not significantly different from 4.1 percent in 2019). Very low food security is the more severe range of food insecurity where one or more household members experienced reduced food intake and disrupted eating patterns at times during the year because of limited money and other resources for obtaining food. Although the prevalence of food insecurity and very low food security for all households remained unchanged from 2019, some subgroups experienced increases in food insecurity and very low food security. [...] In 2020, the typical food-secure household spent 18 percent more on food than the typical food-insecure household of the same size and household composition. About 55 percent of food-insecure households participated in one or more of the three largest Federal nutrition assistance programs: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps); Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); and the National School Lunch Program during the month prior to the 2020 survey."
United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service
Coleman-Jensen, Alisha; Rabbitt, Matthew P.; Gregory, Christian A. . . .
2021-09
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Immigrants' U.S. Labor Market Disadvantage in the COVID-19 Economy: The Role of Geography and Industries of Employment
From the Executive Summary: "While the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic and its economic fallout have hit many workers in the United States hard, lockdowns in response to the initial wave of infections affected the employment of immigrants more than U.S.-born workers. Immigrants experienced steeper job losses and are more heavily concentrated in industries and regional economies with relatively high unemployment compared to the U.S. born. But after rising to higher peaks in 2020, the unemployment rates for immigrant men and women dropped below those of U.S.-born men and women by July 2021. This issue brief uses monthly U.S. Census Bureau data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) to examine the extent of job losses and shifts in employment patterns among immigrant and U.S.-born workers from mid-2019 to mid-2021. It looks at the same three-month period in each year (May to July), as opposed to the last months immediately before the pandemic, in order to account for seasonal employment patterns."
Migration Policy Institute
Capps, Randy; Batalova, Jeanne, 1974-; Gelatt, Julia
2021-09
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Civil Society and the Global Pandemic: Building Back Different?
From the Introduction: "Since the coronavirus pandemic began, civic activists around the world have shifted into a higher gear. As Carnegie's Civic Research Network analyzed last year, the gravity of the health emergency has pushed many civil society organizations (CSOs) to engage in new ways to help alleviate the pandemic's impact. Sometimes they have done this in cooperation with governments, but other times they have acted on their own out of frustration at governments' sluggish and inadequate responses to the emergency. At the same time, many activists have had to defend themselves as governments have used the pandemic as a pretext for further clamping down on independent civil society voices, under the cover of emergency laws passed to help manage the crisis."
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Youngs, Richard A.
2021-09
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Science Skepticism Reduced Compliance with COVID-19 Shelter-In-Place Policies in the United States
From the Abstract: "Physical distancing reduces transmission risks and slows the spread of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]. Yet compliance with shelter-in-place policies issued by local and regional governments in the United States was uneven and may have been influenced by science skepticism and attitudes towards topics of scientific consensus. Using county-day measures of physical distancing derived from cellphone location data, we demonstrate that the proportion of people who stayed at home after shelter-in-place policies went into effect in March and April 2020 in the United States was significantly lower in counties with a high concentration of science skeptics. These results are robust to controlling for other potential drivers of differential physical distancing, such as political partisanship, income, education and COVID [coronavirus disease] severity. Our findings suggest public health interventions that take local attitudes toward science into account in their messaging may be more effective."
Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics
Wright, Austin (Austin L.); Brzezinski, Adam; Kecht, Valentin . . .
2021-09
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Department of Defense Climate Adaptation Plan
From the Introduction: "The Department of Defense (DOD) has identified climate change as a critical national security issue and threat multiplier (DOD 2014a) and top management challenge (DOD 2020a). Climate change will continue to amplify operational demands on the force, degrade installations and infrastructure, increase health risks to our service members, and could require modifications to existing and planned equipment. Extreme weather events are already costing the Department billions of dollars and are degrading mission capabilities. These effects and costs are likely to increase as climate change accelerates. Not adapting to climate change will be even more consequential with failure measured in terms of lost military capability, weakened alliances, enfeebled international stature, degraded infrastructure, and missed opportunities for technical innovation and economic growth."
United States. Department of Defense
2021-09-01
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2021 Climate Adaptation Plan
From the Purpose: "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) mission is to drive advances in science, technology, aeronautics, and space exploration to enhance knowledge, education, innovation, economic vitality, and stewardship of Earth. This Climate Action Plan (CAP) provides NASA's vision for adapting to climate change effects on its mission, facilities, infrastructure, natural lands, and other assets, now and in the future. The CAP builds on the Agency's efforts, beginning in 2005, when 'regional climate variability' was identified in NASA's risk management framework as a threat to operations and missions. This CAP identifies opportunities to further incorporate consideration of climate risk into management functions and other processes to prioritize those risks and apply resources. The CAP addresses co-benefits related to climate change mitigation."
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
2021-09
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DFC Climate Action Plan: Under Executive Order 14008
From the Introduction: "Executive Order (E.O.) 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, requires that each federal agency develop a draft Climate Action Plan (Plan) that responds to the climate crisis. The United States' vision for climate action is fundamentally driven by the extraordinary opportunity it presents for economic revitalization and equity--through job creation, healthier communities, the dismantling of gender inequities and driving forward inclusive growth. DFC's [U.S. International Development Finance Corporation's] leadership recognizes the critical role it must play to equitably address climate change and ensure a just transition through its approach to climate finance. Building a sizeable and impactful portfolio of climate financing is key to demonstrating and furthering DFC's commitment to address climate change head on. Achieving this goal will require DFC to refine its process and adopt a climate lens through which it will view all its financing activities (see box below). Revisiting, improving upon, and diversifying DFC's project sourcing approaches is critical to ensuring that its climate portfolio is innovative and responsive to the dynamic landscape of climate finance. The ability for DFC to integrate climate change adaptation and climate resilience across its portfolio is a key part of the work that will make DFC a more resilient agency."
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
2021-09
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Policy Brief: Crime in California during the COVID-19 Pandemic (September 2021)
From the Introduction: "As the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic struck the US in early 2020 and led to social dislocations, financial and health stresses, and alterations in our daily routines, crime rates in California and across the country also changed, sometimes in unpredictable ways. Throughout the nation, there have been widely cited media reports [hyperlink] of increases in homicide rates [hyperlink], aggravated assaults, and gun-related violence [hyperlink]. Additionally, there have been reports [hyperlink] of sizable increases in auto theft across the country. At the same time, many law enforcement agencies reported declines in the types of offenses that tend to increase with the volume of social interactions, such as robbery and larceny theft. In this brief, we use Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), California Department of Justice (DOJ) data, and US Census data to assess the degree to which crime in 2020 changed relative to crime in 2019 in California. We also compare crime trends in California to trends in other states. This policy brief expands on testimony [hyperlink] provided to the California Committee on the Revision of the Penal Code, and includes 437 municipalities, whereas the testimony only included municipalities with over 100,000 people."
California Policy Lab
Bird, Mia; Gill, Omair; Lacoe, Johanna . . .
2021-09
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Lessons Learned in Oversight of Pandemic Relief Funds
From the Document: "The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) supports independent oversight of '$5 trillion' worth of relief funds provided by Congress to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. This is an unprecedented amount of money--six times what was spent to recover from the financial crisis of 2008-2009--and most of the funds were disbursed quickly. These factors put the money at a higher risk for fraud, so the PRAC has worked with dozens of Inspectors General across the federal government to examine whether it was spent correctly and reached those it was intended to help. Together, we have issued more than '275 oversight reports' that reveal common challenges facing agencies across major relief programs like unemployment insurance and loans to small businesses. Congress and leaders across federal agencies need to know what programs are highly susceptible to fraud during a crisis like the pandemic. In some cases, agencies implemented corrective actions. In other cases, Congress and agency leaders need to take action to reduce the possibility of fraud. One of the PRAC's primary roles is to provide an objective, fact-based answer to this question: Have the unprecedented levels of pandemic spending been effective? And if not, what needs to change? We wrote this report to spark discussion to help answer that question, highlighting the major lessons we and our partners have found in our oversight of pandemic relief and recovery programs. We intend for this to be a living document and will update this report as the PRAC and our partners' findings lead to new lessons."
Pandemic Response Accountability Committee
2021-08-31
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MMWR Early Release: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, August 31, 2021: Epidemiologically Linked COVID-19 Outbreaks at a Youth Camp and Men's Conference -- Illinois, June-July 2021
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [It] is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. This early release issue of MMWR contains the following article: "Epidemiologically Linked COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Outbreaks at a Youth Camp and Men's Conference -- Illinois, June-July 2021." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2021.html].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2021-08-31
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MMWR Early Release: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, August 31, 2021: Association Between COVID-19 and Myocarditis Using Hospital-Based Administrative Data -- United States, March 2020-January 2021
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [It] is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. This early release issue of MMWR contains the following article: "Association Between COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] and Myocarditis Using Hospital-Based Administrative Data -- United States, March 2020-January 2021." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2021.html].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2021-08-31
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Joint Cybersecurity Advisory: Ransomware Awareness for Holidays and Weekends
From the Summary: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have observed an increase in highly impactful ransomware attacks occurring on holidays and weekends--when offices are normally closed--in the United States, as recently as the Fourth of July holiday in 2021. The FBI and CISA do not currently have any specific threat reporting indicating a cyberattack will occur over the upcoming Labor Day holiday. However, the FBI and CISA are sharing the below information to provide awareness to be especially diligent in your network defense practices in the run up to holidays and weekends, based on recent actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and cyberattacks over holidays and weekends during the past few months. The FBI and CISA encourage all entities to examine their current cybersecurity posture and implement the recommended best practices and mitigations to manage the risk posed by all cyber threats, including ransomware."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
2021-08-31
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Public Law 117-39: An Act to Amend Section 1113 of the Social Security Act to Provide Authority for Increased Payments for Temporary Assistance to United States Citizens Returned from Foreign Countries, and for Other Purposes
From the Document: "An Act [t]o amend section 1113 of the Social Security Act to provide authority for increased payments for temporary assistance to United States citizens returned from foreign countries, and for other purposes."
United States. Government Publishing Office
2021-08-31
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U.S. Postal Service Protection Against External Cyberattacks
From the Highlights: "Our objective was to determine if the U.S. Postal Service has an effective security posture to protect its Information Technology (IT) infrastructure from external cyberattacks and prevent unauthorized access to restricted data. [...] We contracted with a provider to conduct a simulated phishing campaign and an external penetration test targeting the Postal Service's internet-facing systems from November 30, 2020, to February 9, 2021. We also reviewed the Postal Service's information security awareness program. [...] We determined the Postal Service established a security awareness program aligned with industry best practices. Additionally, we found Postal Service employees performed better than industry benchmarks during our phishing campaign."
United States Postal Service. Office of Inspector General
2021-08-31
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COVID-19 Response for Assisted Living Facilities
From the Overview: "Residents of long-term care (LTC) facilities are more susceptible to COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] infection and the detrimental impact of the virus than the general population. In addition to the susceptibility of residents, a LTC environment presents challenges to infection control and the ability to contain an outbreak with potentially rapid spread among a highly vulnerable population. This document provides LTC facilities' immediate actions to consider and actions for extended periods after a facility is made aware of potential infection of a resident, provider, or visitor."
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
2021-08-31
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Impact of Community Masking on COVID-19: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Bangladesh
From the Summary: "A randomized-trial of community-level mask promotion in rural Bangladesh during COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] shows that the intervention tripled mask usage and reduced symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] infections, demonstrating that promoting community mask-wearing can improve public health."
Innovations for Poverty Action
Abaluck, Jason; Kwong, Laura H.; Styczynski, Ashley . . .
2021-08-31
