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Via FearLess: “…Earlier this week, President Obama called on Americans to reach out to Congress regarding the debt-ceiling debacle. And a lot of people made their voices heard. The day after Obama’s televised speech, the Capitol’s switchboard was overwhelmed with 40,000 calls per hour and email traffic swamped congressional servers to a near halt. We …
“From June 2010 to June 2011, Nevada again recorded the largest jobless rate decrease (-2.5 percentage points). Two other states had rate decreases of at least 2.0 percentage pointsMichigan (-2.1 points) and Indiana (-2.0 points). Selected states with statistically significant unemployment rate changes, June 2010 to June 2011, seasonally adjusted [Chart data]. Eleven additional states …
“Thirty-five states and D.C. have actually added government jobs since 2006. Increases have been greater than 10,000 jobs in 11 of those states, as well as the District. Texas is leading the way, as it does in almost all employment categories. The number of federal, state and local government workers in Texas grew by 168,600 …
News release: “Freddie Mac issued the company’s Monthly Volume Summary for June 2011. The summary, available on the company’s Web site at www.FreddieMac.com/investors/volsum, provides information on Freddie Mac’s mortgage-related portfolios, securities issuance, risk management and delinquencies. Beginning in January 2011, Freddie Mac began publishing pool-level delinquency disclosures on its single-family PC and Giant PC securities …
“The Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project aims to restore transparency, fairness, responsibility and free market principles to one of the most common consumer financial products the checking account. The campaign will promote policies to revise and update consumer banking regulations to: Reflect current technology; Eliminate abusive industry practices that have arisen in …
Follow up to House Bill – No Money for GPO’s Federal Digital System, Sharply Cuts Other Information Resources – Government Information in Peril, by Bernadine Abbott Hoduski: “The House-passed bill cuts funding for the Superintendent of Documents program from nearly $40 million to less than $34 million, making it very difficult for GPO to support …
Deficit Reduction: $586.112 billion – “The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) and Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) have closely examined the defense budget for waste, fraud, and abuse and for programs in which there are cheaper yet effective alternatives or in which cancellation or delay poses an acceptable level of risk according to national security …
“New data on medical benefits show the similarities and differences between traditional fee-for-service health care plans and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) for a variety of benefits: physical therapy, durable medical equipment, prosthetics, organ and tissue transplantation, kidney dialysis, and diabetes care management. In both fee-for-service plans and HMOs, more than two-thirds of participants in private …
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis – “The 2007-2009 recession officially ended in June of 2009 (the second quarter). How bad was this recession, and how quickly is the economy recovering? How does this recession and recovery compare to previous cycles?” Mouse over the chart and select individual recessions to compare Related postings on financial system
“The report, Power Sector Development in Europe – Lenders’ Perspectives 2011, notes that the European electricity industry will need an estimated EUR 1,900bn investment over the next twenty-five years if it is to meet both increasing electricity demand and ever-tightening environmental standards. Based on interviews with a selection of top European banks, the report concludes …
