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“From June 2010 to June 2011, Nevada again recorded the largest jobless rate decrease (-2.5 percentage points). Two other states had rate decreases of at least 2.0 percentage pointsMichigan (-2.1 points) and Indiana (-2.0 points). Selected states with statistically significant unemployment rate changes, June 2010 to June 2011, seasonally adjusted [Chart data]. Eleven additional states …
“Thirty-five states and D.C. have actually added government jobs since 2006. Increases have been greater than 10,000 jobs in 11 of those states, as well as the District. Texas is leading the way, as it does in almost all employment categories. The number of federal, state and local government workers in Texas grew by 168,600 …
News release: “Freddie Mac issued the company’s Monthly Volume Summary for June 2011. The summary, available on the company’s Web site at www.FreddieMac.com/investors/volsum, provides information on Freddie Mac’s mortgage-related portfolios, securities issuance, risk management and delinquencies. Beginning in January 2011, Freddie Mac began publishing pool-level delinquency disclosures on its single-family PC and Giant PC securities …
“The Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project aims to restore transparency, fairness, responsibility and free market principles to one of the most common consumer financial products the checking account. The campaign will promote policies to revise and update consumer banking regulations to: Reflect current technology; Eliminate abusive industry practices that have arisen in …
Follow up to House Bill – No Money for GPO’s Federal Digital System, Sharply Cuts Other Information Resources – Government Information in Peril, by Bernadine Abbott Hoduski: “The House-passed bill cuts funding for the Superintendent of Documents program from nearly $40 million to less than $34 million, making it very difficult for GPO to support …
Deficit Reduction: $586.112 billion – “The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) and Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) have closely examined the defense budget for waste, fraud, and abuse and for programs in which there are cheaper yet effective alternatives or in which cancellation or delay poses an acceptable level of risk according to national security …
“New data on medical benefits show the similarities and differences between traditional fee-for-service health care plans and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) for a variety of benefits: physical therapy, durable medical equipment, prosthetics, organ and tissue transplantation, kidney dialysis, and diabetes care management. In both fee-for-service plans and HMOs, more than two-thirds of participants in private …
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis – “The 2007-2009 recession officially ended in June of 2009 (the second quarter). How bad was this recession, and how quickly is the economy recovering? How does this recession and recovery compare to previous cycles?” Mouse over the chart and select individual recessions to compare Related postings on financial system
News release: “The amount spent on cigarette advertising and promotion by the largest cigarette companies in the United States declined from $12.49 billion in 2006 to $10.86 billion in 2007, and again to $9.94 billion in 2008, according to a report released today by the Federal Trade Commission. The largest spending category in both 2007 …
Federal Disaster Assistance Budgeting: Are We Weather-ready?, Testimony by Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, July 28, 2011 “The year 2011 has already established itself in the record books as an historic year for weather-related disasters and it is not over in fact hurricane season is just getting underway. Just past the years midpoint, we have already …
Spain: Selected Issues. 2011 International Monetary Fund July 2011 IMF Country Report No. 11/216. Prepared by Jerome Vacher, Keiko Honjo and Florence Jaumotte (all EUR), Rafael Romeu (FAD), Alessandro Giustiniani (MCM), and Edouard Vidon (SPR) “The paper focuses on two major private sector internal imbalances: (i) the excessive weight of construction and real estate, and …
National Income and Product Accounts Gross Domestic Product: Second Quarter 2011 (Advance Estimate) Revised Estimates: 2003 through First Quarter 2011 Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 1.3 percent in the second quarter of …
