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Daily Archives: October 23, 2014

The Facts on Immigration Today

Center for American Progress – Report by the CAP Immigration Team: “Immigration has been a constant source of economic vitality and demographic dynamism throughout our nation’s history. Immigrants are taxpayers, entrepreneurs, job creators, and consumers. But the immigration system is broken and in need of an overhaul. Although the U.S. border is now more secure than ever, decades of ever-increasing border and interior enforcement have exacerbated the dysfunction caused by rigid, out-of-date laws. Immigration reform that comprehensively addresses these systemic problems—including providing a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants living and working in the United States—is supported by large swaths of Americans. Common-sense reform would restore public faith in the system and level the playing field for all Americans, while supercharging the economic benefits from our immigrant population. Below are the latest and most essential facts about immigrants and immigration reform in our nation today. The facts are broken down into the following sections:

IBNET Water Supply and Sanitation Blue Book 2014

Danilenko, Alexander; van den Berg, Caroline; Macheve, Berta; Moffitt, L. Joe. 2014. The IBNET Water Supply and Sanitation Blue Book 2014 : The International Benchmarking Network for Water and Sanitation Utilities Databook. World Bank Group, Washington, DC. © World Bank. “Well-run water utilities play an important role in ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity. Consumers… Continue Reading

Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea – Paper

Paper by Alex Biryukov, Ivan Pustogarov “Bitcoin is a decentralized P2P digital currency in which coins are generated by a distributed set of miners and transaction are broadcasted via a peer-to-peer network. While Bitcoin provides some level of anonymity (or rather pseudonymity) by encouraging the users to have any number of random-looking Bitcoin addresses, recent research shows that this level of… Continue Reading

FDIC Releases Economic Scenarios for 2015 Stress Testing

“The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today released the economic scenarios that will be used by certain financial institutions with total consolidated assets of more than $10 billion for stress tests required under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The baseline, adverse, and severely adverse scenarios include key variables that reflect… Continue Reading

2014 Current and Emerging Global Themes: China report

TowersWatson – 2014 Current and Emerging Global Themes – Employee Benefits: A Headquarters Perspective – China Report As Chinese multinationals ramp up their global expansion, they are paying increasing attention to developing, managing and retaining global talent. Half of Chinese multinationals are at the initial stages of their global benefit management journey. Chinese multinationals need to consider taking… Continue Reading

Potential for Predictive Analytics and Rapid-Cycle Evaluation to Improve Program Development and Outcomes

The Hamilton Project: “Public administrators have always been interested in identifying cost-effective strategies for managing their programs. As government agencies invest in data warehouses and business intelligence capabilities, it becomes feasible to employ analytic techniques used more-commonly in the private sector. Predictive analytics and rapid-cycle evaluation are analytical approaches that are used to do more than describe the current status of programs:… Continue Reading