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How Does Obesity in Adults Affect Spending on Health Care? September 8, 2010, Economic and Budget Issue Brief “Over the past two decades, the adult population in the United States has, on average, become much heavier. From 1987 to 2007, the fraction of adults who were overweight or obese increased from 44 percent to 63 …
Management Report: Opportunities for Improvements in the Congressional Award Foundation’s Internal Controls and Accounting Procedures, GAO-10-964R, September 09, 2010 Hydropower Relicensing: Stakeholders’ Views on the Energy Policy Act Varied, but More Consistent Information Needed, GAO-10-770, August 04, 2010
News release: “Switzerland tops the overall rankings in The Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011, released today by the World Economic Forum ahead of its Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2010 in Tianjin. The United States falls two places to fourth position, overtaken by Sweden (2nd) and Singapore (3rd), after already ceding the top place to …
News release: “The Federal Communications Commission today released the second Local Telephone Competition report to be based on comprehensive information about subscribership to interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service as well as more traditional telephone lines. The report summarizes data collected by FCC Form 477 as of June 30, 2009…In June 2009, there were …
News release: “..Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and Managing Director Steven VanRoekel announced a suite of new tools designed to unlock FCC data and drive innovation across the public and private sectors…The suite of tools released by the FCC includes a number of APIs (Application Programming Interface) – interfaces that enable communication between independent …
Full Report – Beige Book, September 8, 2010 – Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District, August 2010, and link to reports by Districts: “Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts suggested continued growth in national economic activity during the reporting period of mid-July through the end of August, but with …
News release: “A Stress Test for America, by G. Scott Thomas Sep 07 2010: “In an exclusive analysis of the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas, Detroit ranks as the most stressful place to live and work, while Salt Lake City lays claim to have the least stress-inducing attributes.” Portfolio.com’s survey: Stress Levels in America’s 50 …
“AIER [American Institute for Economic Research] has released its annual College Destinations Index (CDI), a quantitative ranking of the 75 best towns and cities to live in if youre a college student. The locations were chosen from an analysis of the 222 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) with student populations of 15,000 or more. The Institute …
News release: “There are one billion hungry people worldwide. The food and fuel price spike in mid-2008 and continuing price volatility have underscored the vulnerability of the worlds food system to shocks such as the losses in crop production in the summer of 2010 that prompted Russia to ban wheat exports, leading to an …
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States – George W. Bush Book II – July 1 to December 31, 2005. “Each Public Papers volume contains the papers and speeches of the President of the United States that were issued by the Office of the Press Secretary during the specified time period. The material …
The Impact of Competition on Technology Adoption: An Apples-to-PCs Analysis, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, July 2010, Number 462, by Adam Copeland and Adam Hale Shapiro “We study the effect of market structure on a personal computer manufacturers decision to adopt new technology. This industry is unusual because there exist two horizontally segmented retail …
