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News release: “An international team of scientists who monitor the rapid changes in the Earths northern polar region say that the Arctic is entering a new state one with warmer air and water temperatures, less summer sea ice and snow cover, and a changed ocean chemistry. This shift is also causing changes in the …
Seasonal Influenza (Flu) – “This week, Dec. 4-10, is National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW). NIVW is dedicated to raising awareness about the importance and benefit of continuing flu vaccination through the holiday season and beyond. Vaccination into and after the holidays is not “too late. Flu season typically peaks in January or February, so get …
Department of Veterans Affairs Audit of Retention Incentives for Veterans Health Administration and VA Central Office Employees, November 14, 2011 “VA uses retention incentives to retain employees in hard-to-fill positions and employees who possess high-level or unique qualifications the Department does not want to lose. In FY 2010, VA paid nearly $111 million in retention …
Economic Freedom of North America 2011 – Nathan J. Ashby, Avilia Bueno, and Fred McMahon with Deborah Martinez, November 2011. Fraser Institute. “The index published in Economic Freedom of North America rates economic freedom on a 10-point scale at two levels, the subnational and the all-government. At the all government level, the index captures the …
Resource Adequacy Implications of Forthcoming EPA Air Quality Regulations, December 2011 “This report presents the results of an independent assessment by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) of the adequacy of U.S. electric generation resources under air pollution regulations being finalized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This report does not estimate the economic …
How Costly Are Debt Crises? Davide Furceri and Aleksandra Zdzienicka, December 01, 2011 “The aim of this paper is to assess the short- and medium-term impact of debt crises on GDP. Using an unbalanced panel of 154 countries from 1970 to 2008, the paper shows that debt crises produce significant and long-lasting output losses, reducing …
Numbers of Doctorates Awarded in the United States Declined in 2010, by Mark K. Fiegener, November 2011, National Science Foundation. “U.S. academic institutions awarded 48,069 research doctorates in 2010, down from 49,554 awards in 2009 and the first decline in doctorates awarded since 2002. The 2010 decline was magnified by the recent reclassification of many …
EPA WasteWise Program – Food Recovery Challenge – “Why Food Waste Reduction and Recovery?: In 2010, just under 35 million tons of food waste was generated. Of that, almost 34 million tons (97%) was thrown away into landfills or incinerators. When excess food, leftover food, and food scraps are disposed of in a landfill, they …
Unauthorized Immigrants: Length of Residency, Patterns of Parenthood, by Paul Taylor, Mark Hugo Lopez, Jeffrey Passel, and Seth Motel, December 1, 2011 “This report focuses on the unauthorized immigrant population in the United States. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates the unauthorized immigrant population using the residual method, a well-developed and widely accepted technique that is …
Commodity Price Cycles: The Perils of Mismanaging the Boom, Gustavo Adler and Sebastián Sosa, December 2011 “Commodity-exporting countries have significantly benefited from the commodity price boom of recent years. At the current juncture, however, uncertain global economic prospects have raised questions about their vulnerability to a sharp fall in commodity prices and the policies that …
“The European debt crisis can easily feel like an unwieldy, unmanageable mess of complex jargon and financial terms. Heres Wonkblogs explanation of whats happening across the Atlantic Ocean with the help of eight key graphs…” Related postings on financial system
OECD Green Growth Studies, December 1, 2011 “The OECD Green Growth Strategy aims to provide concrete recommendations and measurement tools, including indicators, to support countries efforts to achieve economic growth and development, while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which well-being relies. The strategy proposes a flexible policy …
