Report on Special Investigation of the City of Reasnor, For the Period of May 1, 2005 through December 31, 2005

Other Audit Reports - Special Investigation

Social Security in Theory and Practice (II): Efficiency Theories, Narrative Theories, and Implications for Reform

166 countries have some kind of public old age pension. What economic forces create and sustain old age Social Security as a public program? Mulligan and Sala-i-Martin (1999b) document several of the internationally and historically common features of social security programs, and explore "political" theories of Social Security. This paper discusses the "efficiency theories", which view creation of the SS program as a full of partial solution to some market failure. Efficiency explanations of social security include the "SS as welfare for the elderly" the "retirement increases productivity to optimally manage human capital externalities", "optimal retirement insurance", the "prodigal father problem", the "misguided Keynesian", the "optimal longevity insurance", the "government economizing transaction costs", and the "return on human capital investment". We also analyze four "narrative" theories of social security: the "chain letter theory", the "lump of labor theory", the "monopoly capitalism theory", and the "Sub-but-Nearly-Optimal policy response to private pensions theory". The political and efficiency explanations are compared with the international and historical facts and used to derive implications for replacing the typical pay-as-you-go system with a forced savings plan. Most of the explanations suggest that forced savings does not increase welfare, and may decrease it.

Executive Order Number Fifty, May 2, 1994

Establishs the Iowa Health Reform Transition Team. Rescinded by Executive Order #60.

Executive Order Number Sixty, May 19, 1997

Delegates responibility to state agencies for making training available to employees who are responsible for services contracting. Rescind Exectuive Order #50, May 2, 1997. Rescinded Executive Order #25, Vilsack, June 4, 2002.

Executive Order Number Sixty Four, May 18, 1998

Amends Executive Order #48 only by changing the name from the Iowa Commission for National and Community Service to the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service.

Executive Order Number Sixty Five, May 20, 1988

Establish the Iowa Geographic Information Council.

Executive Order Number Sixty Six, May 20, 1988

Establish the Iowa Geographic Information Council.

Identifying and Implementing Effective Training for Hispanic Craft Workers, American Supervisors, and DOT Inspectors: Phase III of the Hispanic Workforce Research Project, May 2006

The number of Hispanic workers in the U.S. construction industry has been steadily increasing, and language and cultural barriers have sometimes arisen on the jobsite. Due in part to these barriers, the number of fatalities among Hispanics at construction sites in 2001 jumped 24%, while construction fatalities overall dropped 3%. This study, which constitutes Phase III of the Hispanic Workforce Research Project, addresses these language and cultural barriers by investigating the most effective way to deliver training material developed in Phases I and II to Hispanic workers, American supervisors, and department of transportation (DOT) inspectors. The research methodology consisted of assessing the needs and interests of potential and current course participants in terms of exploring innovative ways to deliver the training. The training courses were then adapted and delivered to fit the specific needs of each audience. During Phase III of this project, the research team delivered the courses described in the Phase I and II reports to eight highway construction companies and two DOT groups. The courses developed in Phases I and II consist of four construction-focused language training courses that can be part of an effective training program to facilitate integration among U.S. and Hispanic workers, increase productivity and motivation at the jobsite, and decrease the existing high mortality rate for Hispanic workers. Moreover, the research team developed a course for the construction season called Toolbox Integration Course for Hispanic workers and American supervisors (TICHA), which consists of nine 45-minute modules delivered to one construction company over 11 weeks in the summer of 2005.

A-1A Supplemental Security Income Program, May 2006

Supplemental Security Income Program, May 2006

Iowa Centennial Memorial Foundation, Independent Auditor's Reports, Financial Statements and Supplementary Information, May 31, 2006

State Audit Reports

Footnotes, March - May 2006, Vol. 31, no. 3-4

Newsletter of the State Library

Assessing High-Speed Internet Access in the State of Iowa: Fifth Assessment, May 2006

The primary objective of the Fifth Assessment is to evaluate the level of progress in the deployment of high-speed Internet technologies in the State of Iowa.

Sernions de Guillaume de Lyon, précédés d'un catalogue des abbés de S. Martin de Tournai.

Fonds non déterminé.