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News release: “he Humane Society of the United States, the nation’s largest animal protection organization, has released its first “Humane State Ranking,” a comprehensive report rating all 50 states on a wide range of animal protection laws dealing with pets, animal cruelty and fighting, wildlife, animals in research, horses, and farm animals. At the top …
News release: “The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has posted extensive new data on job patterns in the private sector, as part of the Obama Administrations Open Government Initiative. The EEOC posted 11 new aggregate data sets from the most recent edition of its report Job Patterns for Minorities and Women in Private Industry, …
Economic Report of the President 2010: “Contains current/foreseeable trends and annual numerical goals concerning topics such as employment, production, real income, and Federal budget outlays.” A Look Inside the Economic Report of the President Related postings on financial system
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, Federal Reserve’s exit strategy, Before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., February 10, 2010 Statement as prepared for delivery. The hearing was postponed due to inclement weather. “In summary, to help stabilize financial markets and to mitigate the effects of the crisis on the economy, the …
World Trade Center 9/11 Photos: A Fresh But Painful Look at Sept. 11 Tragedy “A trove of aerial photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center was widely released this week, offering a rare and chilling view from the heavens of the burning twin towers and the apocalyptic shroud of smoke and dust that settled over …
“2008 Annual Capital Expenditures Survey These data provide preliminary estimates of business spending for new and used structures and equipment at the sector level based on the 2002 North American Industry Classification System. These figures are critical to evaluate productivity growth, the ability of U.S. business to compete with foreign business, changes in industrial …
“On behalf of the National Science and Technology Council, the U.S. Global Change Research Program is pleased to transmit to the President and the Congress this state of knowledge report: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. This report summarizes the science of climate change and the impacts of climate change on the United …
The National Disaster Recovery Framework will: Define the Federal, State, local, Tribal, private non-profit, private sector roles and individual citizen’s roles in disaster recovery. Design and establish an effective coordinating structure for disaster recovery programs. Identify gaps, as well as, duplications, in recovery programs and funding. Establish performance standards for the Federal support of State …
Loss Aversion, Asymmetric Market Comovements, and the Home Bias. Kevin Amonlirdviman and Carlos Carvalho, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, February 2010. “Loss aversion has been used to explain why a high equity premium might be consistent with plausible levels of risk aversion. The intuition is that the different utility impact of wealth gains and …
News release and tables: The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that total December exports of $142.7 billion and imports of $182.9 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $40.2 billion, up from $36.4 billion in November, revised. December exports were $4.6 …
President Obama Names Childhood Obesity Taskforce – Read Memorandum “Childhood obesity or excess weight threatens the healthy future of one third of American children. We spend $150 billion every year to treat obesity-related conditions, and that number is growing. Obesity rates tripled in the past 30 years, a trend that means, for the first time …
Labor Underutilization Problems of U.S. Workers Across Household Income Groups at the End of the Great Recession: A Truly Great Depression Among the Nations Low Income Workers Amidst Full Employment Among the Most Affluent. Prepared by Andrew Sum, Ishwar Khatiwada, With the Assistance of Sheila Palma, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. …
