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News release: “Manufacturing hourly compensation costs in the United States in 2010 were lower than in several northern and western European countries, Australia, and Canada, but higher than in the United Kingdom and 19 countries in southern and eastern Europe, Asia, and South America, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. U.S. hourly compensation costs …
Rising Inequality: Transitory or Permanent? New Evidence from a U.S. Panel of Household Income 1987-2006. December 15, 2011. Jason DeBacker (Treasury Department), Bradley Heim (Indiana University), Vasia Panousi (Federal Reserve Board), Ivan Vidangos (Federal Reserve Board) “We use a new and large panel dataset of household income to shed light on the permanent versus transitory …
News release: “The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released the Semi-Annual Report to Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies, December 27, 2011 – that is required under Sections 3004 and 3005 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988. The Report covers international economic and foreign exchange developments in the first …
Prosecutors in State Courts, 2007 – Statistical Tables: “In 2007, 2,330 state prosecutors offices served state judicial districts in the United States. The offices reported a total estimated budget of $5.8 billion in 2007 and employed nearly 78,000 attorneys, investigators, paralegals, and support staff. State prosecutors closed 2.9 million cases charged as felonies in state …
Higher Education and Disability – Improved Federal Enforcement Needed to Better Protect Students’ Rights to Testing Accommodations, GAO-12-40, November 29, 2011. “Federal enforcement of laws and regulations governing testing accommodations is largely complaint-driven and involves multiple agencies. While Justice has overall responsibility for enforcing compliance under the ADA, Education and HHS have enforcement responsibilities under …
“Taxpayers can get the most out of various recovery tax benefits and get a jump on preparing their 2011 federal income tax returns by consulting a newly revised comprehensive tax guide now available on IRS.gov. Publication 17, Tax Guide 2011 for Individuals, features details on taking advantage of a wide range of tax-saving opportunities, such …
“America’s Youngest Outcasts 2010 documents the numbers of homeless children in every state, their well-being, their risk for child homelessness, and state level planning and policy activities. Using findings from numerous sources that include well-established national data sets as well as our own research, we rank the states in four domains and then develop a …
Survey of Current Business, December 2011, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Volume 91 Number 12 GDP and the Economy: Second Estimates for the Third Quarter of 2011: Real GDP rose 2.0 percent after rising 1.3 percent in the second quarter. Consumer spending and nonresidential investment picked up. State and local government spending decreased less. Corporate profits …
Women in the Labor Force: A Databook, 2011 Edition The past several decades have been marked by notable changes in womens labor force activities. Womens labor force participation is significantly higher today than it was in the 1970s, particularly among women with children under 18 years of age. A larger share of women work full …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today finalized the 2012 percentage standards for four fuel categories that are part of the agencys Renewable Fuel Standard program (RFS2). EPA continues to support greater use of renewable fuels within the transportation sector every year through the RFS2 program, which encourages innovation, strengthens American energy security, …
News release: “Data through October 2011, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed decreases of 1.1% and 1.2% for the 10- and 20-City Composites in October vs. September. Nineteen of the 20 cities covered by the indices also saw home prices decrease over …
News release: “The Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released the ninth annual Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism, which finds key programs that detect and respond to bioterrorism, new disease outbreaks and natural or accidental disasters are at risk due to federal and state …
