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Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update – August 24, 2011 “The United States is facing profound budgetary and economic challenges. At 8.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), the $1.3 trillion budget deficit that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects for 2011 will be the third-largest shortfall in the past 65 years (exceeded only by …
“The events of September 11th, 2001 affected the entire world. The 9/11 Television News Archive is a library of news coverage of the events of 9/11/2001 and their aftermath as presented by U.S. and international broadcasters. A resource for scholars, journalists, and the public, it presents one week of news broadcasts for study, research and …
CBO: Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output from April 2011 Through June 2011 “The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) contains provisions that are intended to boost economic activity and employment in the United States. Section 1512(e) of the law requires the Congressional Budget Office …
Boomer Retirement: Headwinds for U.S. Equity Markets?, by Zheng Liu and Mark M. Spiegel “The baby boom generation born between 1946 and 1964 has had a large impact on the U.S. economy and will continue to do so as baby boomers gradually phase from work into retirement over the next two decades. To finance retirement, …
News release: “From April to July 2011, the number of employed youth 16 to 24 years old rose by 1.7 million to 18.6 million, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This year, the share of young people who were employed in July was 48.8 percent, the lowest July rate on record for the …
Federal Reserve Bank of New York: The July Indexes of Coincident Economic Indicators (CEIs) for New York State, New York City, and New Jersey, released today, reveal that economic activity continued to expand in both New York State and New York City andfor the second month in a rowpicked up moderately in New Jersey. The …
Energy Development and Water Use Impacts of Potential Oil Shale Development on Water Resources, GAO-11-929T, August 24, 2011 [See also related postings on shale] Maritime Security – Progress Made, but Further Actions Needed to Secure the Maritime Energy Supply, GAO-11-883T, August 24, 2011 Environmental Protection Agency – To Better Fulfill Its Mission, EPA Needs a …
Google Doubleclick Ad Planner – “You can see a list of the largest 1000 sites worldwide, based on Unique Visitors (users), as measured by Ad Planner. This list is updated monthly as new Ad Planner datasets are released. The list defines sites as top-level domains. For each site on the list, you’ll be able to …
Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of rare is changing in the age of information abundance by Maria Popova. “Over the past few years, the fledgling field of the digital humanities has made significant strides with a number of ambitious digitization projects bringing online rare cultural artifacts manuscripts, canvases, celluloid, marginalia that used …
SSI Annual Statistical Report, 2010 – Social Security Administration, Office of Retirement and Disability Policy, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, August 2011. Size and Scope of the Supplemental Security Income Program and Profile of Recipients as follows: “About 7.9 million people received federally administered payments in December 2010. The average monthly payment in December …
