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Brookings/Hamilton Project – Unemployment and Earnings Losses: The Long-Term Impacts of The Great Recession, November 2011 “The labor market has shown another month of growth, according to [November 4, 2011] employment report. Payroll employment increased by 80,000 jobs in October; private sector employment was up by 104,000, while governments continued to shed jobs. Additionally, the …
The Subprime Crisis: Is Government Housing Policy to Blame?, Robert B. Avery and Kenneth P. Brevoort, 2011-36, Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C. “A growing literature suggests that housing policy, embodied by the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and the affordable housing goals of …
CBO’s Use of Evidence in Analysis of Budget and Economic Policies, November 2011 – CBO Associate Director for Economic Analysis Jeffrey R. Kling’s presentation at the Annual Fall Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
24 Hours at Fukushima – A blow-by-blow account of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, By Eliza Strickland / November 2011 [Editor’s Note: This is part of the IEEE Spectrum special report: Fukushima and the Future of Nuclear Power]. “The world’s three major nuclear accidents had very different causes, but they have one important thing …
News release: “A new World Bank Group initiative will help Brazils efforts to eradicate extreme poverty in the country, the World Bank announced today. The Banks Board approved a US$ 8 billion new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Brazil, which will guide the Groups overall program in the country for the fiscal years 2012-2015. The …
Charles M. Vest, National Academy of Engineering: The Next Generation Do we need more engineers? “The distinguished National Academy volunteers who wrote the influential report Rising Above the Gathering Storm believed that we need to increase the number of engineers graduating in this country. Not everyone agrees with this assessment and I am frequently asked, …
September 2011: The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas produces estimates of monthly payroll employment by Federal Reserve District. These data are now available to the public and will be updated monthly – Data for employment by Federal Reserve District “The 50 states and the District of Columbia are divided among 12 Federal Reserve districts. With …
News release: “A nationwide survey of the American people released today by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found that anti-Semitic attitudes have risen slightly in America, demonstrating once again that “anti-Semitic beliefs continue to hold a vicegrip” on a small but not insubstantial segment of America. The ADL survey found that 15 percent of American’s nearly …
The International Agenda for Financial Regulation, Governor Daniel K. Tarullo, American Bar Association Banking Law Committee Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 4, 2011 “Basel 2.5, Basel III, and the G-SIB surcharges can only reduce the chances of highly disruptive failure, not eliminate them. A necessary supplement is a strong resolution mechanism for systemically important firms, …
News release: “Nonfarm payroll employment continued to trend up in October (+80,000), and the unemployment rate was little changed at 9.0 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment in the private sector rose, with modest job growth continuing in professional and businesses services, leisure and hospitality, health care, and mining. Government employment …
Federal Courthouse Construction: Nationwide Space and Cost Issues Are Applicable to L.A. Courthouse Project, GAO-12-206T, Nov 4, 2011 Defense Contract Management Agency: Amid Ongoing Efforts to Rebuild Capacity, Several Factors Present Challenges in Meeting Its Missions, GAO-12-83, Nov 3, 2011 Fiscal Year 2011 Agreed-Upon Procedures for Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust …
News release: “Two-thirds of college seniors graduated with loans in 2010, and they carried an average of $25,250 in debt. They also faced the highest unemployment rate for young college graduates in recent history at 9.1%. Our new report, Student Debt and the Class of 2010, includes average debt levels for the 50 states and …
