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Eduardo Porter – New York Times – Richer but Not Better Off: “In some ways, the United States looks more like a poor unequal country in the developing world than a rich industrialized nation: relatively small middle class and a bigger share of rich and of poor than in any advanced country. This is not …
“A new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis finds that average annual out-of-pocket prescription drug spending for workers and family members decreased from a recent high of $167 in 2009 to $144 in 2014. Most of the decline in out-of-pocket spending occurred between 2009 and 2012 and is likely due to generic substitution for popular drugs that …
“The U.S. Census Bureau released today selected characteristics of the citizen voting-age population from the 2015 American Community Survey for all U.S. states and congressional districts. These characteristics include selected age groups, sex, race, Hispanic origin, educational attainment, poverty status and household income.”
“The Global Gender Gap Index was first introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006 as a framework for capturing the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracking their progress over time. The Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, education, health and political criteria, and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across regions …
News release: “An expansive new analysis by Yale School of Public Health researchers confirms that numerous carcinogens involved in the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing have the potential to contaminate air and water in nearby communities. Fracking is now common in the United States, currently occurring in 30 states, and with millions of people living …
Jane Miller and Amy Adkins, Gallup – “This article is the first in a two-part series. The gender pay gap is one of the most controversial topics related to women and work. Though less pronounced than in the past, the pay gap still exists and has barely budged in over a decade. Estimates of the …
Calandro, Joseph, Impact Investment and Risk Management: Overview and Approach (October 25, 2016). ACRN Oxford Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives, Vol. 5, Issue 3, pp. 46-60, 2016 . Available for download at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2859007 “Managing financial risk has proven difficult over time as evidenced by numerous high profile failures over the recent past including …
Federal Procurement: Smarter Buying Initiatives Can Achieve Additional Savings, but Improved Oversight and Accountability Needed, GAO-17-164: Published: Oct 26, 2016. Publicly Released: Oct 26, 2016. “The federal government saved nearly $500 million over the past 5 years through “smarter buying”—such as leveraging the government’s collective buying power for things like office supplies. But that’s small …
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Report – “We recently estimated that Clinton’s policies would likely add $200 billion to the debt over the next decade, while Trump’s policies would add $5.3 trillion. We also found that the ratio of debt to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would rise from nearly 77 percent of GDP today to 86 …
Review of the Enterprise E-Mail System Acquisition, September 30, 2016. Reference Number: 2016-20-080. “The IRS purchased subscriptions for an enterprise e-mail system [Microsoft] that, as it turned out, it could not use. The purchase was made without first determining project infrastructure needs, integration requirements, business requirements, security and portal bandwidth, and whether the subscriptions were …
Via FindLaw – Alexander Polonsky, et al. v. Wells Fargo, Los Angeles Superior Court, September 22, 2016. “The lawsuit was filed by two former employees, but seeks compensation for any and all Wells Fargo employees penalized for not meeting sales quotas over the past 10 years. In September, the bank fired over 5,000 employees for …
“New York Times financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin criss-crosses the Atlantic to trace the troubled reputation of bankers over the centuries, in the UK and the USA. With the global economy still recovering from the crash of 2008, the reputation of high finance often appears to be at an all time low. Banks and the …
