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Confronting the Nation’s Fiscal Policy Challenges, September 13, 2011. Testimony before the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, U.S. Congress “The federal government is confronting significant and fundamental budgetary challenges. If current policies are continued in coming years, the aging of the population and the rising cost of health care will boost federal spending, as …
News release: ‘Women’s rights/Equal opportunities; Plenary sessions, September 13, 2011: “Women setting up and running small and medium-sized enterprises need better financial and educational support, says a resolution adopted on Tuesday. Parliament also calls on Member States to help women over 50 to stay in or return to the labour market. Only one in ten …
Brussels, 13 September 2011 – “The European Commission today welcomed the launch of Education at a Glance 2011, a new report which gathers statistical data on investment in education, student-teacher ratios, teaching hours, graduate numbers and results. 21 EU countries are covered by the report, which is compiled annually by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation …
News release: “Ever have a medical test done and then had to wait around sometimes anxiously, depending on the test to get the lab test results from your doctor? Thats about to change. Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed regulations that would give patients the ability to access their …
The unreliability of credit-to-GDP ratio gaps in real-time: Implications for countercyclical capital bu ffers – Rochelle M. Edge, Office of Financial Stability Policy and Research, Federal Reserve Board. Ralf R. Meisenzahl – Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, August 21, 2011 “Macroeconomists have long recognized that activity-gap measures are unreliable in real time and …
Blog of the Legal Times: “Responding to a lawsuit filed by five of the nation’s largest cigarette manufacturers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration filed Friday to block any delay to new regulations requiring graphic warning labels on cigarette packages. The tobacco companies are suing the agency in U.S. District Court for the District of …
Estimated Impact of Automatic Budget Enforcement Procedures Specified in the Budget Control Act, September 12, 2011 “The Budget Control Act of 2011 (enacted on August 2 as Public Law 112-25) made several changes to federal programs and established budget enforcement mechanismsincluding caps on future discretionary appropriationsthat were estimated to reduce federal budget deficits by a …
BizJournals: “A total of 184 U.S. counties and independent cities now have majority-minority populations, according to an On Numbers breakdown of the latest U.S. Census Bureau data…The majority-minority list includes 15 counties with populations of more than 500,000. The largest are Kings and Queens County, N.Y. (better known as the New York City boroughs of …
News release: “Nearly 90,000 high resolution scans of the more than 200,000 historical USGS topographic maps, some dating as far back as 1884, are now available online. The Historical Topographic Map Collection includes published U.S. maps of all scales and editions, and are offered as a georeferenced digital download or as a scanned print from …
Education, Demand, and Unemployment in Metropolitan America – Jonathan Rothwell and Alan Berube “Inadequate demand and inadequate education, relative to available occupations, are both hampering economic recovery in U.S. metropolitan areas. With a still weakened private sector, strategic public investment and regional economic diversification can help address the first problem. Yet even when the economy …
Independent Commission on Banking – Final Report Recommendations, September 2011 [via Richard McKinney] “The recommendations in this report aim to create a more stable and competitive basis for UK banking in the longer term. That means much more than greater resilience against future financial crises and removing risks from banks to the public finances. It …
Interagency Contracting: Improvements Needed in Setting Fee Rates for Selected Programs, GAO-11-784, September 9, 2011 Observations on the Costs and Benefits of an Increased Department of Defense Role in Helping to Secure the Southwest Land Border. GAO-11-856R, September 12, 2011
