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Alternative proposals to provide $34 billion in loans to the automobile industry, December 5, 2008: “CBO estimates that the subsidy rate for bridge loans under standard credit reform accounting (following the requirements of FCRA) would be 50 percent. By comparison, we estimate a subsidy rate of 70 percent for providing such loans under TARP because …
Auto Industry: A Framework for Considering Federal Financial Assistance, GAO-09-247T, December 05, 2008: “From our previous work on federal financial assistance to large firms and municipalities, we have identified three fundamental principles that can serve as a framework for considering future assistance. These principles are (1) identifying and defining the problem, (2) determining the national …
Bureau of Justice Statistics: Capital Punishment, 2007 – Statistical Tables, Tracy L. Snell, BJS Statistician “Presents characteristics of persons under sentence of death on December 31, 2007, and persons executed in 2007. Tables present state-by-state information on the movement of prisoners into and out of death sentence status during 2007, status of capital statutes, and …
The Employment Situation: November 2008 – “Nonfarm payroll employment fell sharply (-533,000) in November, and the unemployment rate rose from 6.5 to 6.7 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. November’s drop in payroll employment followed declines of 403,000 in September and 320,000 in October, as revised. Job …
