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Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s Annual Economic Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming – August 21, 2009 Reflections on a Year of Crisis: “By the standards of recent decades, the economic environment at the time of this symposium one year ago was quite challenging. A year after the onset of …
Health Insurance: Enrollment, Benefits, Funding, and Other Characteristics of State High-Risk Health Insurance Pools, GAO-09-730R, July 22, 2009 “A growing number of states–35 as of June 2009–have created high-risk health insurance pools (HRPs) primarily to provide coverage to individuals whose health status limits their access to coverage in the private individual health insurance market. HRPs–typically …
State/Local Employment Up Slightly Since Start of Recession, But Cuts Are Now Underway by Donald J. Boyd, Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, August 20, 2009. “Government employment accounts for more than 22 million jobs 17 percent of total U.S. employment with state and local governments accounting for the vast majority of this. …
Monthly Flash Estimate (08/20/2009): “The August, 2009 issue of the Monthly Flash Estimate (MFE) of Electric Power Data is now available… MFE provides an early look at the highlights of the upcoming Electric Power Monthly publication and presents tables of electricity generation, fuel consumption for generation, fossil fuel stocks, and average retail sales and prices …
Form EIA-923 Generation by Unit, Fuel Consumption by Boiler, and Environmental Database (08/18/2009): “The Environmental Operational Data File for Final Form EIA-923 2007 data are now available. This data file includes unit level generation, boiler level fuel consumption, NOX control data, FGP data, and FGD data for steam-electric, organic-fueled electric power plants 10 megawatts and …
News release: “The planets ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for July, breaking the previous high mark established in 1998 according to an analysis by NOAAs National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for July 2009 ranked fifth-warmest since world-wide records began in 1880…The …
News release: “AG King and twenty-three other State Attorneys General sent a letter late Monday to leaders of the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee, voicing strong support for the Consumer Financial Protection Agency proposed by the Obama Administration.” August 17, 2009 – Dear Senators Dodd and Shelby and Representatives Frank and …
“As part of the Committee’s ongoing investigation of the health insurance industry’s business practices, Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak sent letters on Monday to the largest insurance companies requesting information on how the companies use the premiums collected from policyholders, businesses, and the government.”
“CDC is releasing new guidance that recommends actions that non-healthcare employers should take now to decrease the spread of seasonal flu and 2009 H1N1 flu in the workplace and to help maintain business continuity during the 20092010 flu season.1 The guidance includes additional strategies to use if flu conditions become more severe and some new …
Alcohol-Impaired Drivers Involved in Fatal Crashes, by Gender and State, 2007-2008. August 2009 “This Research Note emphasizes recent trends in the number of alcohol-impaired drivers involved in fatal crashes, by the gender of the driver as well as the State where the fatal crash occurred. This analysis was per-formed in light of recent data1 from …
News release: “The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today announced that the agreement with the Swiss government has been finalized. As a result of the agreement, the United States will receive substantially all of the accounts of interest [4,500] when it initiated the John Doe summons against UBS on June 30, 2008. …
“The Treasury Department today released U.S. reserve assets data for the latest week. As indicated in this table, U.S. reserve assets totaled $81,727 million as of the end of that week, compared to $82,631 million as of the end of the prior week.” Related postings on financial system
