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“The State of Metropolitan America is a signature effort of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program that portrays the demographic and social trends shaping the nations essential economic and societal units its large metropolitan areas and discusses what they imply for public policies to secure prosperity for these places and their populations. This report …
News release: “The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved a three-year SDR 26.4 billion (30 billion) Stand-By Arrangement for Greece in support of the authorities economic adjustment and transformation program. This front-loaded program makes SDR 4.8 billion (about 5.5 billion) immediately available to Greece from the IMF as part of joint …
CBO Monthly Budget Review – May 2010. Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for March and the Daily Treasury Statements for April 2010. “In the first seven months of fiscal year 2010, the federal government incurred a budget deficit of about $800 billion, the same as the shortfall at the same point in 2009, CBO …
“This report, Ordinary Measures, Extraordinary Results: An Assessment of Foiled Plots Since 9/11, analyzes 32 attacks that were thwarted since 9/11 to determine which factors led to the plots successful disruption. The report finds that in the majority of cases, traditional law enforcement techniques and methods developed prior to 9/11, direct and indirect action by …
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Hearing, The Shadow Banking System, May 5-6, 2010 Day 1 | Day 2 Testimony of Christopher Cox, Former Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, May 5, 2010: “The shadow banking system helped to spread this contagion to institutions in every sector from commercial banks …
“Text4baby is a free mobile information service designed to promote maternal and child health. An educational program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB), text4baby provides pregnant women and new moms with information they need to take care of their health and give their babies the best possible start in life. Women who …
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the University of South Carolina, Commencement Ceremony, Columbia, South Carolina, May 8, 2010: The Economics of Happiness “..Another area of this research bears directly on…the relationship between income and happiness. Some years ago the economist Richard Easterlin showed that, just as would be expected, wealthier people in any given country …
Follow up to Postal Service Proposes to Eliminate Saturday Service, news that the Postal Regulatory Commission has issued a Request for Proposal for a study on measuring the social benefits of the mail. In addition, there is a scoping study, A Framework for Considering the Social Value of Postal Services Final Report, February 2, 2010 …
Congressional Budget Office: How Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Affect Employment, May 5, 2010 Economic and Budget Issue Brief “The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has analyzed the research on the effects that policies to reduce greenhouse gases would have on employment and concluded that total employment during the next few decades would be …
News release: “Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 290,000 in April, the unemployment rate edged up to 9.9 percent, and the labor force increased sharply, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in manufacturing, professional and business services, health care, and leisure and hospitality. Federal government employment also rose, reflecting continued hiring …
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill: “This Web site is updated daily check back for the most up-to-date information on the following: How big is the spill? How fast is it spreading? What species are threatened? Who is responsible? What if a spill occurs in the Arctic? Are oil spills …
“You can now explore OECD data using new tools that allow you to uncover structures and reveal the stories hidden in the statistics. The OECD eXplorer developed jointly by the OECD and the National Centre for Visual Analytics (NCVA) at Linköping University, Sweden, combines maps and graphs with stories allowing users to examine time developments …
