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An Analysis of Health Insurance Premiums Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, November 30, 2009 – Letter to the Honorable Evan Bayh “There is great interest in how proposals being considered by the Congress to change the health care and health insurance systems would affect premiums paid for health insurance in various markets. …
OECD Economic Outlook No. 86, November 2009: “The economic recovery now spreading across OECD countries is still too timid to halt the continuing rise in unemployment. The jobless rate is expected to peak in the first half of 2010 in the US, but it may not be until 2011 that unemployment begins to fall in …
World Bank news release: “According to the new report – Rethinking School Feeding: Social Safety Nets, Child Development, and the Education Sector – school feeding programs in poor countries boost school attendance, help children to learn more effectively, and spur better performance in class, especially when these programs are twinned with other measures such as …
WaPo Op-Ed: The right reform for the Fed, by Ben Bernanke – Sunday, November 29, 2009 “For many Americans, the financial crisis, and the recession it spawned, have been devastating — jobs, homes, savings lost. Understandably, many people are calling for change. Yet change needs to be about creating a system that works better, not …
News release: “Bankruptcy cases filed in federal courts for fiscal year 2009 totaled 1,402,816, up 34.5 percent over the 1,042,993 filings reported for the 12-month period ending September 30, 2008, according to statistics released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The federal Judiciarys fiscal year is the 12-month period ending September 30. …
News release: “Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay a $468,600 civil penalty to settle self-disclosed violations of federal environmental regulations discovered at 655 facilities in 42 states. Verizon voluntarily entered into a corporate audit agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and conducted environmental compliance audits at more than 25,000 facilities nation-wide. The Environmental Appeals …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released a user-friendly document to help risk assessors understand how children are exposed to pollution. The document, titled Highlights of the Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook, serves as a quick-reference guide to the more comprehensive Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook, published by EPA in 2008. It will serve as …
Telling the Narrative of the Financial Crisis: Not Just a Housing Bubble – Douglas J. Elliott, Fellow, Economic Studies, Initiative on Business and Public Policy, Martin Neil Baily, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies – The Brookings Institution, November 23, 2009. “Major crises, such as the recent financial crisis, usually end up being understood by the public …
“President Obama is calling on all of us to come together to solve hunger in our communities. In this spirit, the Corporation for National and Community Service is launching the United We Serve: Feed a Neighbor initiative in collaboration with the White House and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The purpose of the initiative …
News release: “Building upon last months historic release of nearly 500 White House visitor records, today the White House releases more than 1,600 records of visits to the White House in response to another months worth of requests. You can view all the records in a searchable database in our Disclosures section. We announced earlier …
“The Federal Reserve wants consumers to use their credit cards wisely as they shop for the holidays, and is sponsoring 45-second advertisements in movie theaters with tips to help shoppers avoid unnecessary charges and fees. The advertisements will appear before movie previews at 12 highly attended theaters in major metropolitan areas from November 27 through …
The Economic and Budget Outlook, November 2009. CBO Director Doug Elmendorf’s presentation to the American Association for Budget and Program Analysis. “The country faces a fundamental disconnect between the services people expect the government to provide, particularly in the form of benefits for older Americans, and the tax revenues that people are willing to send …
