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The POWER Initiative: Energy Transition as Economic Development
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-04 · Reports · 6,466 words · PDF available
With the decline of the U.S. coal industry, managing the economic effects of energy transition has become a priority for the federal government. The Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Econ...
Types of Private Sector Defined Contribution Plans
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-04 · Resources · 1,456 words · PDF available
Background A pension is an employer-sponsored benefit that helps workers prepare for their financial security in retirement. The two types of employer-sponsored pension plans are those (1) that provid...
CrowdStrike IT Outage: Impacts to Public Safety Systems and Considerations for Congress
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-04 · Resources · 1,578 words · PDF available
On July 19, 2024, CrowdStrike, a U.S. cybersecurity firm, released a software update to their customers. The update caused certain computer systems to crash, disrupting services across several industr...
How will the clean energy transition affect wages?
Brookings Institution · 2024-12-04 · Article · 3,666 words · PDF available
The clean energy transition has quietly pushed ahead in recent decades, with solar and wind energy accounting for almost 15% of total U.S. energy production in February 2024. The benefits of this tran...
Cybersecurity and Digital Health Information
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-04 · Resources · 1,702 words · PDF available
As the technologies used in health care expand, so too do cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Increasingly, health care actors use electronic health records (EHRs), artificial intelligence (AI) technologie...
Market-Based Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Legislation: 108th Through 118th Congresses
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-04 · Reports · 24,714 words · PDF available
Members of Congress have expressed a range of perspectives regarding climate change issues and the policy options that address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. For example, between the 112th Congress a...
Lebanese Hezbollah
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-04 · Resources · 1,599 words · PDF available
Hezbollah (“Party of God,” also spelled Hizballah) is an Iran-backed Lebanese Shia militia and U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Hezbollah is an Iranian partner force, helping Tehr...
Nicaragua: In Brief
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-04 · Reports · 6,595 words · PDF available
Background Nicaragua, a Central American country with the second-lowest per capita income in the Western Hemisphere, is currently governed by the authoritarian regime of President Daniel Ortega (1984-...
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter Reform: An Overview
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-04 · Resources · 1,670 words · PDF available
The U.S. patent system is designed to encourage innovation. The types of inventions that can be patented, however, may affect the patent system’s ability to promote innovation in certain fields, espec...
Research Security Policies: An Overview
Congressional Research Service · 2024-12-04 · Resources · 1,563 words · PDF available
The international scientific community generally views the free and open exchange of information as vital to the process of scientific inquiry, including the vetting of ideas and the verification of r...