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Job growth improves, but pace leaves full employment 20 years away, Heidi Shierholz, November 5, 2010 “Octobers employment report, released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showed faster private sector employment growth than in recent months, 159,000, along with strong upward revisions to earlier data (+110,000). Other positive news was the unexpectedly modest …
News release: “The Federal Reserve Board on [November 4, 2010 established the Office of Financial Stability Policy and Research and appointed Board economist J. Nellie Liang as its director. The office will bring together economists, banking supervisors, markets experts, and others in the Federal Reserve who will be dedicated to supporting the Board’s financial stability …
Interactive graphic: U.S. Cities with the highest unemployment rates
“The gap in income growth between the richest and the poorest American families is staggering, as data to be published January on EPIs State of Working America (SWA) Web site show. The Chart, from the forthcoming SWA Web site, shows what the concentration of income growth at the top of the income scale has meant, …
News release: “Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 151,000 in October, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Since December 2009, nonfarm payroll employment has risen by 874,000. The number of unemployed persons, at 14.8 million, was little changed in October. The unemployment rate remained at …
“This order establishes an open and uniform program for managing information that requires safeguarding or dissemination controls pursuant to and consistent with law, regulations, and Government-wide policies, excluding information that is classified under Executive Order 13526 of December 29, 2009, or the Atomic Energy Act, as amended. At present, executive departments and agencies (agencies) employ …
Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2010 Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, GAO-11-120R, November 04, 2010 Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2010 Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, GAO-11-121R, November 04, 2010 Nuclear Commerce: Governmentwide Strategy Could Help Increase Commercial Benefits from U.S. Nuclear Cooperation Agreements with Other Countries, GAO-11-36, November 04, 2010
Wholesale Market Data Nov 4, 2010: This site contains spreadsheets with wholesale electricity price data from ICE (IntercontinentalExchange) through October 29, 2010 (latest web site update: November 4, 2010). The files contain peak prices, volumes, and the number of transactions at six electricity trading hubs covering most regions of the United States.”
News release: “Most developing countries made dramatic yet often underestimated progress in health, education and basic living standards in recent decades, with many of the poorest countries posting the greatest gains, reveals a detailed new analysis of long-term Human Development Index (HDI) trends in the 2010 Human Development Report, released here today. Yet patterns of …
Follow up to previous postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via FRONTLINE – The Spill: “A joint investigation by FRONTLINE and ProPublica into the trail of problems — deadly accidents, disastrous spills, countless safety violations — which long troubled the oil giant, BP. Could the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have been prevented?”
NRDC Issue Paper, November 2010 – Fighting Oil Addiction, Ranking States Gasoline Price Vulnerability and Solutions for Change “The purpose of this report is to update NRDCs 2007, 2008, and 2009 research identifying the states that are most vulnerable to spikes in gasoline pricesand those states that are doing the most to break their addiction …
“As an education and policy advocacy organization dedicated to reducing the threats posed by the worlds most dangerous weapons, the Arms Control Association believes it is essential that states meet their nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament standards and objectives and that the public has the information and tools necessary to help hold governments accountable. This report …
