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The General Accountability Office (GAO) has launched a new transition website intended to help make the transition an informed and smooth one.

The website can be found at http://www.gao.gov/transition_2009/

The 13 urgent issues they identified are as follows and are in alphabetic order not priority order:

* Caring for Service Members
* Defense Readiness
* Defense Spending
* Food Safety
* Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan
* Oversight of Financial Institutions and Markets
* Preparing for Large-Scale Health Emergencies
* Protecting the Homeland
* Public Diplomacy and International Broadcasting
* Retirement of the Space Shuttle
* Surface Transportation
* The 2010 Census
* Transition to Digital TV

The website also includes sections on:
* Agency-by-Agency Issues
* Major Cost-Saving Opportunities
* Management Challenges Across the Government
* Long-Term Fiscal Outlook
* Examples of Upcoming GAO reports on Major National Issues


Post on GovDoc-L from: Greta E. Marlatt, Information Services Manager & Homeland Security Digital Library Content Manager, Dudley Knox Library, Naval Postgraduate School

State of Minority Business in America. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Minority Business Development Agency, 2007.
SUDOC: C 1.102:M 66/4

This hand held disc provides information on minority businesses in America in the year 2007, with information for every state. Spinning the disc allows users to find out information on: Total Number of Minority Firms, Gross Receipts, and Number of Paid Employees. Also included are statistics on the following ethnic groups: Black or African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander.

For more information go to: http://www.mbda.gov/

Census Atlas of the United States: Census 2000 Special Reports. Bureau of Census. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Census, 2007.
SUDOC: C 3.205/8-3:29

The recently published Census Atlas of the United States is the first comprehensive atlas of population and housing produced by the Census Bureau since the 1920s. The Census Atlas is a large-format publication about 300 pages long and containing almost 800 maps. Data from decennial censuses prior to 2000 support nearly 150 maps and figures, providing context and an historical perspective for many of the topics presented. A variety of topics are covered in the Census Atlas, ranging from language and ancestry characteristics to housing patterns and the geographic distribution of the population. A majority of the maps in the Census Atlas present data at the county level, but data also are sometimes mapped by state, census tract (for largest cities and metropolitan areas), and for selected American Indian reservations. The book is modern, colorful, and includes a variety of map styles and data symbolization techniques.

***Abstract taken from GPO***

Available on the Internet: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS92179