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A Primer on Corporate Governance, by Olivier Serrat – “Good corporate governance helps an organization achieve its objectives; poor corporate governance can speed its decline or demise. Never before has the glare of the spotlight focused so much on boards of directors. Corporate governance has emerged from obscurity and become a mainstream topic.” Direction and …
Economic Projections from the January FOMC Meeting, Brent Meyer – Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland “Most participants continued to judge the uncertainty accompanying their projections for all forecasted variables as elevated when compared to historical norms. However, the Committee did change its assessment of the risks to its growth and inflation projections. The majority of …
Center for Responsive Politics Reports on wealth of Freshman House and Senate Members – [To download a spreadsheet containing raw data in part used to produce this report, click here: personalfinances_3_2011.xls] “No matter that theyre the newest kids in Congress. Like their veteran counterparts, U.S. House and U.S. Senate freshmen are together a notably wealthy …
News release: “Private industry employers spent an average of $27.75 per hour worked for total employee compensation in December 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries averaged $19.64 per hour worked and accounted for 70.8 percent of these costs, while benefits averaged $8.11 and accounted for the remaining 29.2 percent. …
“The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is pleased to announced the release of Publishing Support for Small Print-Based Publishers: Options for ARL Libraries. This report is the summary of a project funded by ARL to investigate how research libraries might provide support to print-only publishers in order to ensure long-term digital access to their content. …
News release: “Manufacturing hourly compensation costs in the United States in 2009 were lower than in 12 European countries and Australia, but higher than in 20 other countries covered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. hourly compensation costs rose about 4 percent from the previous year to $33.53. The 8 countries with the highest …
UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) – Women on boards February 2011: “At the current rate of change it will take over 70 years to achieve gender-balanced boardrooms in the UK…The low proportion of women holding directorships suggests British business is not using all of the skills and talents of the workforce effectively. …
“Welcome to the new home for consumer product safety reports. Use our new online form to submit a Report on an unsafe product. Register your business with the new Business Portal to review and respond to Reports. Reports and manufacturer comments during this Soft Launch will be used by CPSC, but they will not be …
News release: “At a hearing today in front of the Senate Commerce Committee on the Magnuson-Stevens Act, Assistant NOAA Administrator for Fisheries Eric Schwaab said that the U.S. is making good progress toward meeting the mandate to end domestic overfishing. We know that nearly $31 billion in sales and as many as 500,000 jobs are …
Department of State: Additional Steps Are Needed to Improve Strategic Planning and Evaluation of Training for State Personnel GAO-11-438T, March 08, 2011 Department of State: Additional Steps Are Needed to Improve Strategic Planning and Evaluation of Training for State Personnel GAO-11-241, January 25, 2011
News release: “For the first time, industry groups and civil liberties interests have come together to advocate a comprehensive, common approach to cybersecurity. That approach is reflected in today’s release of a cybersecurity white paper that rejects government mandates and advocates for a stronger partnership between industry and government. The 20-page white paper is a …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency updated its database that helps Americans understand the health and environmental impacts of electricity generation. EPAs Emissions and Generation Integrated Resource Database (eGRID) and Power Profiler now include data from 2007, an update from 2005. eGRID is a comprehensive database of emissions from almost all electric power generated …
