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“Its that time of year, again, when news organizations are scrambling to determine which stories and screaming headlines attracted the most attention from its readers. As a way to get the ball rolling, I contacted some leading news organizations and asked them to provide the online story that generated the most page views on their …
Improving American’s Financial Security: “..one of the most important components of Wall Street reform is putting in place a Director of the new CFPB. It is only with a Director that the CFPB can exercise its full authorities and make good on the consumer protection goals of Wall Street Reform. Without a Director, the CFPB …
Emerging East Asia – A Regional Economic Update, December 2011. Asian Development Bank. “Outlook and Risks: Since mid-2011, the external environment for emerging East Asia has worsened; no resolution of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis is in sight and the US recovery remains fragile. Aggregate GDP in emerging East Asia is expected to grow 7.2% …
A mandate to preserve – Assessing the inaugural Newspaper Archive Summit, by Victoria McCargar “Historically, when a newspaper ceased publication, the photographs, clippings and bound volumes were handed off to the local historical society or public library. They sat there, and many continue to sit there, until the organization decided what to do with them. …
Divided We Stand – Why Inequality Keeps Rising, OECD, December 5, 2011. “In the three decades to the recent economic downturn, wage gaps widened and household income inequality increased in a large majority of OECD countries. This occurred even when countries were going through a period of sustained economic and employment growth. This report analyses …
Matt Leichter: “Two weeks ago, I used U.S. News and Official Guide data to show that in 2010, 44,245 ABA law school graduates took on $3.6 billion in student loans, a sum that increased from $3.1 billion in 2008. The increases occur because Congress allows law students to fully finance their legal educations (and living …
William Pannapacker is an associate professor of English at Hope College, in Holland, Mich: “Contrary to many futuristic projectionseven from bibliophiles who, as a group, enjoy melancholy reveriesthe recent technological revolution has only deepened the affection that many scholars have for books and libraries, and highlighted the need for the preservation, study, and cherishing of …
