“The annual Milliman Medical Index (MMI) measures the total cost of healthcare for a typical family of four covered by a preferred provider organization (PPO) plan. The 2012 MMI cost is $20,728, an increase of $1,335, or 6.9% over 2011. The rate of increase is not as high as in the past, but the total… Continue Reading
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Pew Economic Mobility of the States Interactive Report
“Economic Mobility of the States is a new interactive tool that captures the findings of the first analysis of Americans economic mobilitytheir movement up and down the earnings ladderat the state level, including data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Users can click the map to see where in the country Americans… Continue Reading
World Bank – Food Price Watch
Food Price Watch: “Global food prices have increased by 8% in the last four months since December 2011, and in March 2012 were only 6% below their February 2011 historical peak. All key food prices have increased, except for rice. Increasing international oil prices, adverse weather conditions, Asia’s strong demand for food imports, and the… Continue Reading
Text mining for user perspectives on the physical workplace
Text mining for user perspectives on the physical workplace Goins, John, Center for the Built Environment, University of California, Berkeley; Moezzi, Mithra, Portland State University, 03-01-2011- Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) “This paper reports on analysis of open-ended survey responses from a commercial building indoor environment satisfaction survey database maintained by the University of California at… Continue Reading
Working Beyond Retirement-Age at Record High Levels
NYT: “Labor Department figures indicate that the percentage of workers over the traditional retirement age of 65 is at a record high. But, the figures show, job totals fell sharply for men under 55 during the recession and have only started to recover, while the proportion of women ages 25 to 54 with jobs also… Continue Reading
The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
“The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities – IATH is a research unit of the University of Virginia established by the University of Virginia in 1992. Our goal is to explore and develop information technology as a tool for scholarly humanities research. To that end, we provide our Fellows with consulting, technical support, applications… Continue Reading
Birth Rates for U.S. Teenagers Reach Historic Lows for All Age and Ethnic Groups
Birth Rates for U.S. Teenagers Reach Historic Lows for All Age and Ethnic Groups – Brady E. Hamilton, Ph.D., and Stephanie J. Ventura, M.A., April 2012 “Teen childbearing has been generally on a long-term decline in the United States since the late 1950s. In spite of these declines, the U.S. teen birth rate remains one… Continue Reading
Hearing on the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance (GPS) Act
House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security – Hearing on the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance (GPS) Act – Statement for the Record of Professor Matt Blaze, May 17, 2012 Re – Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act, S. 1212: “GPS is only one technology for cell location, and while it is… Continue Reading
Dow Jones Announces Twitter Content Incorporated into Factiva
News release: “The curated Twitter content in Factiva covers 31 industries, including energy, financial services and technology, with a focus on the most influential tweeters from around the globe. The real time content is available via Factiva Snapshot, a business search tool with news dashboards that help businesses to efficiently gather intelligence and identify trends,… Continue Reading
Decoding Medicaid Care Delivery and Financing Models: A Glossary of Widely Used Terms
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: “As care delivery and financing models in Medicaid have multiplied, so has the terminology used to refer to them. This glossary seeks to clarify and define the terms that are widely used to describe the diverse approaches that states are taking to reform the way they organize and… Continue Reading
Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China 2012
Annual Report to Congress – Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2012, May 2012 “The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is pursuing a long-term, comprehensive military modernization program designed to improve the capacity of Chinas armed forces to fight and win local wars under conditions of informatization, or high-intensity, information-centric regional… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – U.S. Power Plants, FDA Employee Performance Standards
Natural Resources and Environment – Air Emissions and Electricity Generation at U.S. Power Plants, GAO-12-545R, Apr 18, 2012 Food and Drug Administration, Employee Performance Standards for the Timely Review of Medical Product Applications, GAO-12-650R, Apr 18, 2012 Continue Reading
