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News release: “Federal agencies today released the seven draft reports required by President Obamas executive order on the Chesapeake Bay, which contain a range of proposed strategies for accelerating cleanup of the nations largest estuary and its vast watershed. The draft reports collectively call for increased accountability and performance from pollution control, habitat protection and …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it has identified 79 proposed surface coal-mining projects in Appalachian states for further, detailed reviews of their pending permits. The extended reviews will be carried out under an enhanced coordination process between EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers developed under an interagency Memorandum of Understanding …
New York Times: Wall Streets Math Wizards Forgot a Few Variables: “But the real failure, according to finance experts and economists, was in the quants mathematical models of risk that suggested the arcane stuff was safe. The risk models proved myopic, they say, because they were too simple-minded. They focused mainly on figures like the …
Troubled Assets Relief Program – Monthly Progress Report August 2009, released September 10, 2009: “The Troubled Assets Relief Program or TARP was established pursuant to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 or EESA. This law was adopted on October 3, 2008 in response to the severe financial crisis facing our country. To carry …
Council of Economic Advisors: Economic Impact of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – First Quarterly Report, September 10, 2009. “Among the key finding of the study are: As of the end of August, $151.4 billion of the original $787 billion has been outlaid or has gone to American taxpayers and businesses in the …
New York Times: Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost to Health “Across the nation, the system that Congress created to protect the nations waters under the Clean Water Act of 1972 today often fails to prevent pollution. The New York Times has compiled data on more than 200,000 facilities that have permits to …
News release: “EPA has announced plans to place additional limitations on the use of three organophosphate pesticides chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion to protect endangered and threatened salmon and steelhead in California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Anticipated changes to product labels include the addition of pesticide buffer zones; application limitations based on wind speed, …
News release: “HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius…address[ed] the University of Chicagos dialogue on health care reform and education and issue a new report on the employer-sponsored insurance market. The new report, Insurance Insecurity: Families Are Losing Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage, highlights problems in the status quo that have left Americans who receive health insurance from an employer …
WSJ: “The White House’s top economic adviser, facing stiff opposition in Congress to giving the Federal Reserve more power, suggested Friday that other federal regulators could join the central bank in regulating systemic risk to the nation’s financial system.” Related postings on systemic risk regulation
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission on Scams Related to the Economic Stimulus: “How the FTC Works to Halt Fraudulent Schemes Exploiting the Economic Downturn and the Stimulus Package, Presented by Chairman Jon Leibowitz Before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate (September 10, 2009) Related postings on financial system
“The first Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) was released ten years ago. It has since become a flagship product of the International Labour Office (ILO) and is used on a daily basis by researchers and policy-makers throughout the world. At the national level, statistical information is generally gathered and analysed by statistical services …
“The annual Americas Civic Health Index, based on survey data collected in May 2009, is a look at the state of civic engagement in America that reflects the impact of the economic crisis. The surveys results reflect the hard choices Americans have made during the downturn, with 72 percent of respondents saying they have cut …
