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Consumers and Food Price Inflation

Description: This report focuses instead on the nature and measurement of retail food price inflation and its relationship to consumers.
Date: October 4, 2012
Creator: Schnepf, Randy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Target and Other Financial Data Breaches: Frequently Asked Questions

Description: This report answers some frequently asked questions about the Target and selected other data breaches, including what is known to have happened in the breach, and what costs may result. It also examines some of the broader issues common to data breaches, including how the payment system works, how cybersecurity costs are shared and allocated within the payment system, who bears the losses in such breaches more generally, what emerging cybersecurity technologies may help prevent them, and what r… more
Date: February 4, 2015
Creator: Weiss, N. E. & Miller, Rena S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Consumers and Food Price Inflation

Description: The heightened commodity price volatility of 2008 and the subsequent acceleration in U.S. food price inflation raised concerns and generated many questions about farm and food price movements by Members of Congress and their constituents. This report responds to those concerns by addressing the nature and measurement of retail food price inflation.
Date: November 4, 2009
Creator: Schnepf, Randy & Richardson, Joe
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Budget for Fiscal Year 2008

Description: This report discusses the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) FY2009 budget request of $2.676 billion that would provide a 17.9% increase ($406 million) over FY2008. It includes an overview and breakdowns for specific programs: Foods Program, Human Drugs Program, Biologics program, Animal Drugs and Feed Program, and the Devices and Radiological Health Program.
Date: January 4, 2008
Creator: Austin, D. Andrew
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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International political implementations of commodity policy

Description: This report presents International political implementations of commodity policy which can stabilize prices and assure supply to the benefit of both producer and consumer.
Date: November 4, 1977
Creator: Charlotte A.Phillips
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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