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Gap in Labor Market Now 11.5 Million Jobs, Heidi Shierholz – October 8, 2010- Economic Policy Institute “The underemployment rate, or the U-6 measure of labor underutilization, is a more comprehensive measure of labor market slack than the unemployment rate because it includes not just the officially unemployed, but also jobless workers who have given …
Escaping the Scrapers: “The Internet has given rise to a dizzying array of people-search sites and data brokers that gather and compile public information and social-networking profiles. The sites gather information from public sources such as property records and telephone listings, and other information is harvested by scraping or copying websites where people …
What They Know – interactive graphic: “Marketers are spying on Internet users — observing and remembering people’s clicks, and building and selling detailed dossiers of their activities and interests. The Wall Street Journal’s What They Know series documents the new, cutting-edge uses of this Internet-tracking technology. The Journal analyzed the tracking files installed on people’s …
LLRX.com: FOIA Facts – Mid-Term FOIA Grade for the Obama Administration – Scott A. Hodes provides perspective, and an overall grade, to how the administration has done during the first half of its first term in regard to FOIA.
Summary: “NABE [National Association for Business Economics] panelists trimmed their projections on economic growth; those projections now remain sub-par through year-end. Real GDP will accelerate gradually during 2011, but remain moderate for the whole of next year. This summers slowdown has exposed the economys sensitivity to wealth losses, the unwinding of debt, and the reductions …
2010 Summary of Deposits data is now available: “The Summary of Deposits (SOD) contains deposit data for branches and offices of all FDIC-insured institutions. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) collects deposit balances for commercial and savings banks as of June 30 of each year, and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) collects the same …
Unclassified White House Report to Congress on Afghanistan and Pakistan, addressed to Senator Carl Levin, Chairman, Armed Services Committee, September 30, 2010. The report notes “both positive and negative trends in the implementation of our Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy.” Via FAS: “The report described the progress or lack thereof made this year towards …
Bloomberg: “China, the worlds worst polluter, needs to spend at least 2 percent of gross domestic product a year — 680 billion yuan at 2009 figures — to clean up 30 years of industrial waste, said He Ping, chairman of the Washington-based International Fund for Chinas Environment. Mun Sing Ho, a senior economist at Dale …
News release: “The largest ever global research project into peoples online activities and behaviour – Digital Life – was launched today, digital day by TNS, the worlds biggest custom research company. Covering nearly 90 per cent of the worlds online population through 50,000 interviews with consumers in 46 countries, the study reveals major changes in …
Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress; National Research Council: “Although the progress of environmental restoration projects in the Florida Everglades remains slow overall, there have been improvements in the pace of restoration and in the relationship between the federal and state partners over the last two years. However, the importance of several …
S&T Strategies of Six Countries: Implications for the United States “An increase in global access to goods and knowledge is transforming world-class science and technology (S&T) by bringing it within the capability of an unprecedented number of global parties who must compete for resources, markets, and talent. In particular, globalization has facilitated the success of …
Report: Shopping, Search, Decision Making Online Product Research, by Jim Jansen, September 29, 2010 “The commercial use of the internet by American adults has grown since the mid-2000s, with 58% of Americans now reporting that they perform online research concerning the products and services that they are considering purchasing. That is an increase from 49% …
