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The Cost of the Financial Crisis: The Impact of the September 2008 Economic Collapse – Phillip Swagel, Pew Economic Policy Group “U.S. households lost on average nearly $5,800 in income due to reduced economic growth during the acute stage of the financial crisis from September 2008 through the end of 2009. Costs to the federal …
News release: “Investing around US$8 billion a year in rebuilding and greening the world’s fisheries could raise catches to 112 million tonnes annually while triggering benefits to industry, consumers and the global economy totalling US$1.7 trillion over the next 40 years. These are among the findings of a new, landmark report being compiled by the …
News release: “Greater emphasis on highlighting the links between waste management, the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and human health and livelihoods underpins a new 10-year vision for the Basel Convention recommended by governments today. Three hundred delegates from 106 countries welcomed the Convention’s Strategic Framework 2012-2021 on the final day of a meeting …
Time: “It is rarely noted that the financial wreckage littering our world is the creation, almost exclusively, of men, not women. And no wonder: to this day, each of the large banks, from Citigroup to Goldman Sachs, employs fewer than a handful of women in senior positions, and only 3% of Fortune 500 companies have …
News release: [May 11, 2010] the FCCs Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) launched an initiative on bill shock the experience of getting an unexpectedly high wireless phone bill. The Bureau is seeking input on ways to alert consumers about potential high charges before they add up. One idea is a technical solution now …
News release: “The new federal strategy for the Chesapeake region released…focuses on protecting and restoring the environment in communities throughout the 64,000-square-mile watershed and in its thousands of streams, creeks and rivers. The strategy includes using rigorous regulations to restore clean water, implementing new conservation practices on 4 million acres of farms, conserving 2 million …
“A new report released [May 12, 2010] by the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) highlights the role of government investment in research and development (R&D), especially in the area of basic research. The report, entitled The Pivotal Role of Government Investment in Basic Research, concludes that the United States needs to identify and support …
Cordless telephone use: implications for mobile phone research. Redmayne M, Inyang I, Dimitriadis C, Benke G, Abramson MJ. Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, The Alfred, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. “Cordless and mobile (cellular) telephone use has increased substantially in recent years causing concerns about possible health …
News release: “The Federal Judiciarys website, www.uscourts.gov, today unveils a host of enhancements. The site has been redesigned to make it more attractive, accessible, and useful to its diverse audience of users. The improvements further the websites mission of increasing public interest, awareness, and understanding of the federal court system and its functions, and to …
Understanding the Economy – Working Mothers in the Great Recession, Prepared by Joint Economic Committee Majority Staff, Mothers Day 201, An Update on Working Moms “The Great Recession has taken a huge toll on working families. The vast majority of jobs lost were lost by men, but a substantial number of jobs were lost by …
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via the New York Times: “Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick. The discovery is fresh evidence that the leak from the …
“The key message of the contribution of the Special Rapporteur is the following: the right to food is not merely a slogan, and it is not only of symbolic value; it is a tool, with clear operational impacts, that can improve the impacts of interventions in a variety of domains, and make them more sustainable …
