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“In this new study, economist Robert Shapiro, chairman of Sonecon, LLC, and a faculty member of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, analyzes new Census Bureau data to track the household incomes of Americans by age cohort, following their income paths as they age. Using this approach, Shapiro shows that income progress was broad and robust …
CDC press release: “Two out of 3 people diagnosed with cancer survive five years or more, according to a CDC study published in today’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The report found that the most common cancer sites continue to be cancers of the prostate (128 cases per 100,000 men), female breast (122 cases per …
“Available from April 1995 forward, this monthly publication is prepared by the Council of Economic Advisers for the Joint Economic Committee. It provides economic information on gross domestic product, income, employment, production, business activity, prices, money, credit, security markets, Federal finance, and international statistics. Economic Indicators back to 1948 are made available through FRASER, the …
Brennan, Michael J. and Huh, Sahn-Wook and Subrahmanyam, Avanidhar, High-Frequency Measures of Information Risk (March 12, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2578168 “We estimate each day for each stock the conditional probabilities of informed trading on good and bad news in the spirit of Easley et al. (1996), and provide new evidence that these …
“Today, the Institute for Energy Research released a new study titled Assessing Emerging Policy Threats to the U.S. Power Grid as a continuation of the Story of Electricity initiative. The report finds that the greatest threats to our power grid are not physical or cyber attacks, but rather existing and upcoming Federal and State policies including subsidies, mandates, …
“With the U.S. Senate Special Commi ttee on Aging holding a hearing [March 12] on “Bridging the Gap: How Prepared are Americans for Retirement ?” the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) is re-posting recent findings that the aggregate national retirement savings deficit is about $4.13 trillion for all U.S. households where the head of …
Via LLRX – Emerging roles and possible futures for librarians and information professionals. Author, professor, editor, librarian – Bruce Rosenstein’s article addresses the following critical questions – What professional roles do you play as a librarian/information professional? How have they changed during your career? And perhaps most important, how do you see them changing and …
