Day archives: July 27th, 2021

Explaining Fluctuations in the Thrift Savings Fund Daily Balance at U.S. Treasury

Skidmore, Mark / Alvayay Torrejón, Camila / Pare, David – CESifo, Munich, 2021, CESifo Working Paper No. 9084“In this paper we document and examine unusual fluctuations in the G-Fund, which is one of five funds available in a voluntary federal government employee retirement savings vehicle called the Thrift Savings Plan. The G-Fund is managed as …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

COVID-19 Reported Patient Impact and Hospital Capacity by Facility

HealthData.gov: “The following dataset provides facility-level data for hospital utilization aggregated on a weekly basis (Friday to Thursday). These are derived from reports with facility-level granularity across two main sources: (1) HHS TeleTracking, and (2) reporting provided directly to HHS Protect by state/territorial health departments on behalf of their healthcare facilities. The hospital population includes …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Health Care

Biden plans to require federal workers to be vaccinated

Washington Post: “President Biden will announce Thursday that all federal employees will be required to be vaccinated against the coronavirus or face repeated testing mandates, a White House official said, a dramatic escalation of the administration’s effort to combat the spread of the delta variant. The new rules will closely align with policies recently put …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People

CDC Updates as of July 27, 2021: Updated information for fully vaccinated people given new evidence on the B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant currently circulating in the United States. Added a recommendation for fully vaccinated people to wear a mask in public indoor settings in areas of substantial or high transmission. Added information that fully vaccinated people …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care

Office workers to bosses: I’ll quit if I have to go full-time back to the office

Fortune: “Offices are opening back up and employers are nudging their workers to return into offices. This is the case for Hannah, a designer who has spent the last year working from a small island in Spain and is now being asked to return to London to spend time in her Mayfair office. “If they …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Knowledge Management, Legal Research