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GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR BANK HOLDING COMPANIES – Statutory Changes to Limit Future Support Are Not Yet Fully Implemented, GAO-14-174T, Jan 8, 2014: “GAO found that from 2007 through 2009, the federal government’s actions to stabilize the financial system provided significant funding support and other benefits to bank holding companies and their subsidiaries. The Board of Governors of …
Kaiser Family Foundation: ” With one in three Americans reporting that they have difficulty paying their medical bills, this report looks at some of the reasons Americans encounter medical debt, even when they have insurance, by drawing insights from the experiences of nearly two dozen people who recently experienced such problems. This report identifies common causes and …
“In 2012 U.S. health care spending increased 3.7 percent to reach $2.8 trillion, or $8,915 per person, the fourth consecutive year of slow growth. The share of the economy devoted to health spending decreased from 17.3 percent in 2011 to 17.2 percent in 2012, as the Gross Domestic Product increased nearly one percentage point faster …
“According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 31.6 percent of Americans were in poverty for at least two months from 2009 to 2011, a 4.5 percentage point increase over the prerecession period of 2005 to 2007. Poverty was a temporary state for most people; however, 3.5 percent of Americans were in poverty for the entire three-year …
“A new infographic, “Poverty: The History of a Measure,” presents a timeline of major milestones in the Census Bureau’s effort to measure poverty since President Johnson’s January 1964 declaration of his “War on Poverty” 50 years ago. A companion infographic, “How Census Measures Poverty,” examines differences between the nation’s official poverty measure and the supplemental poverty …
“This is an annual publication that provides data on payments and payment, clearing and settlement systems in the CPSS countries. This version of the statistical update contains data for 2012 and earlier years. There are detailed tables for each individual country as well as a number of comparative tables. A preliminary version was published in September 2013.” Full publication …
“The property price statistics bring together data from different countries. The BIS, with the assistance of its member central banks, 1 has obtained approval of various national data providers to disseminate the statistics as long as the original national sources are clearly indicated. The sources and any relevant disclaimers are listed separately (sources of data). Copyright in these data must …
Melnik, Arie and Shy, Oz, Exclusion, Competition, and Regulation in the Retail Loan Market (October 31, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2374975 “Exclusion of borrowers from credit markets became a primary concern for regulators during the recovery from the recent recession. We analyze market for loans where loan-making institutions set both interest rates and minimum credit …
David A. Bergeron | December 18, 2013: “At a recent convening of the Alliance of States, Complete College America, a national nonprofit dedicated to growing the pool of American college graduates, advocated for the adoption of five of what it calls “game-changer” strategies that could dramatically increase the number of students who successfully complete college. Well-reasoned and artfully explained, one is left …
NYT – CATHERINE RAMPELL and SHAILA DEWAN: “Academic heavyweights have been debating whether the current United States economy is so sluggish because of too much government stimulus or not enough, or because slower growth had become the norm even before the recession. But maybe these arguments share a faulty premise. The American economy is actually doing reasonably well — at …
Are Recent College Graduates Finding Good Jobs? – Jaison R. Abel, Richard Deitz, and Yaquin Su – New York Fed “According to numerous accounts, the Great Recession has left many recent college graduates struggling to find jobs that utilize their education. However, a look at the data on the employment outcomes for recent graduates over the past two decades suggests that …
Graphic – 50 Years of Poverty, by ALICIA PARLAPIANO: “While government programs have kept millions of people, especially the elderly, from falling into poverty, rates remain high for many groups of Americans, including children, blacks and Hispanics.” Related Article » “To many Americans, the war on poverty declared 50 years ago by President Lyndon B. Johnson has …
