Women, Men and Working Conditions in Europe – A report based on the fifth European Working Conditions Survey – October 24, 2013. Smith, Mark; Piasna, Agnieszka; Burchell, Brendan; Rubery, Jill; Rafferty, Anthony; Rose, Janna; Carter, Laura “Despite much legislative progress in gender equality over the past 40 years, there are still gender gaps across many aspects of… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: October 2013
TRAC – Immigration Court Backlog Up 85% From Five Years Ago
“The number of cases awaiting resolution before the Immigration Courts climbed to 344,230 by the end of fiscal year 2013, according to very timely government enforcement data obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University. The case backlog, which has risen 5.9 percent since September 2012, is now 85 percent higher than… Continue Reading
UK Guardian – NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts
Jason Ball – The NSA memo suggests that such surveillance was not isolated as the agency routinely monitors world leaders. [snipped] “The National Security Agency monitored the phone conversations of 35 world leaders after being given the numbers by an official in another US government department, according to a classified document provided by whistleblower Edward… Continue Reading
CBO – Snapshot of Corporate Income Tax Receipts
“Since 2008, receipts from corporate income taxes have been smaller, relative to the size of the economy, than their historical average of 1.9 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)—largely because the recent recession substantially reduced taxable corporate profits. Temporary provisions in tax laws also played a role, particularly provisions that let firms accelerate deductions for… Continue Reading
CBO – Raising the Age of Eligibility for Medicare to 67
Raising the Age of Eligibility for Medicare to 67: An Updated Estimate of the Budgetary Effects – October 24, 2013 “Medicare, one of the federal government’s largest programs, provides health care benefits primarily to elderly people. The usual age of eligibility for those benefits is 65, although certain people qualify for the program earlier. (Medicare… Continue Reading
New Report Recommends Alternative Plan for Implementing the Volcker Rule
A Better Path Forward on the Volcker Rule and the Lincoln Amendment by James D. Cox, Jonathan R. Macey and Annette L. Nazareth “Two late additions to Congress’s response to the financial crisis have proved to be among the most complex and challenging for U.S. financial regulators to put into place. The degree of difficulty… Continue Reading
Debt Savers in Defined Contribution Plans
Debt Savers in Defined Contribution Plans, Size, Causes, and Solutions, Matt Fellowes, Founder & CEO of HelloWallet; Jake Spiegel, Research Associate at HelloWallet “The average 401(k) and other defined contribution (DC) plan participant now defers over 8 percent of their annual income toward retirement savings through their plan and social security taxes, making it one of the largest expenses for… Continue Reading
National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day
“Saturday, October 26 is National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Between 10:00am and 2:00pm, you can bring your unwanted prescription drugs or over-the-counter medicines to a collection site near you. Enter your ZIP code to find your nearest collection site. Properly disposing of medicines is important to human health and the environment. Here are a few… Continue Reading
Unemployment Insurance: Programs and Benefits
CRS – Unemployment Insurance: Programs and Benefits, Julie M. Whittaker, Specialist in Income Security; Katelin P. Isaacs, Analyst in Income Security. September 17, 2013 “Various benefits may be available to unemployed workers to provide income support. When eligible workers lose their jobs, the Unemployment Compensation (UC) program may provide up to 26 weeks of income… Continue Reading
TRAC: Rise in Social Security lawsuits
“Over the past five years, the number of Social Security civil lawsuits filed in federal courts has risen over 60 percent, according to the latest available case-by-case federal court data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). During September 2013 the government reported 1,757 new filings of this sort, up 14 percent from a… Continue Reading
TIME – America’s Mood Map: An Interactive Guide to the United States of Attitude
“For a country that features the word United so prominently in its name, the U.S. is a pretty fractious place. We splinter along fault lines of income, education, religion, race, hyphenated origin, age and politics. Then too there’s temperament. We’re coarse or courtly, traditionalist or rebel, amped up or laid-back. And it’s no secret that a lot of… Continue Reading
WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2013
“This is the eighteenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing and financing TB prevention, care and control at global, regional and country levels using data reported by 197 countries and territories… Continue Reading
