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Economic Context and Americans’ Perceptions of Income Inequality, Ping Xu & James Garand, Social Science Quarterly, December 2010, Pages 1220-1241 “Objectives: The increase in income inequality in the United States over the past three decades has been well documented, though Americans differ in their perceptions of rising inequality. In this article we investigate the degree …
News release: “The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) on December 7, 2010, showing that U.S. students are ranked average in reading and science, and below average in math. Among the 34 OECD countries, the United States ranks 14th in reading, 17th …
Commentary – Going Viral Against HIV and STIs: “The New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute, in partnership with AIDS.gov, held a one-day forum on social media, HIV, and sexually transmitted infections (STI) that turned out to be an unfiltered discussion of love, truth, and technology…” Susannah Fox, Associate Director, Digital Strategy, Pew Research …
8% of online Americans use Twitter, Aaron Smith, Senior Research Specialist, Lee Rainie, Director, 12/9/2010: “Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. It is an online activity that is particularly popular with young adults, minorities, and those who live in cities.”
Strategic Use of Analytics in Government: “Governments use analytics (often described as business intelligence) to enable and drive their strategies and performance in an ever more volatile and turbulent environment. Analytics and fact-based decision making can make a powerful contribution to the achievement of government missions, just as they are now making to the accomplishment …
The Principal Financial Well-Being Index – Summary 4th Quarter 2010: “This Principal Financial Well-Being IndexSM survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Interactive on behalf of the Principal Financial Group® between October 20th and October 28th, 2010, among 1,159 employees and 528 retirees. This is one in a series of quarterly studies …
Heartland Monitor VII: Return to Prosperity, December 2010: “The seventh installment of the Heartland Monitor Poll reveals an American public that is still deeply concerned about the direction of the country, their personal economic situation and future opportunities for their children. Globally, there are concerns about how the US compares to other countries in terms …
News release: “Health reform will require hospitals and physicians to engage in more intense levels of collaboration and information sharing. However, PwC surveys found both groups have issues to overcome with each other. For example, one in five physicians doesn’t trust hospitals, and six in 10 hospitals think it will be difficult to get health …
The Library: Three Jeremiads, by Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books, December 23, 2010. “In fact, more printed books are produced each year than the year before. Soon there will be a million new titles published worldwide each year. A research library cannot ignore this production on the grounds that our readers are now …
Profhacker 2010 Holiday Gift Guide: The ProfHacker Group provide interesting and often unique holiday gift ideas in this wide ranging guide which includes useful commentary, on items from the Analog, Hardware, Software, Print and Wellness venues. Have fun, and please think about all the terrific charitable organizations, large and small, local, regional and global, to …
Via Calculated Risk, this graph “shows the job losses from the start of the employment recession, in percentage terms aligned at maximum job losses. For the current employment recession, employment peaked in December 2007, and this recession is by far the worst recession since WWII in percentage terms, and 2nd worst in terms of the …
FT.com: Facebooks grand plan for the future: “This is a somewhat different Mark Zuckerberg to the one the public knew just a year ago. In recent months he has transformed from an awkward wunderkind with a preternatural ability to anticipate where the web is going, into an amicable executive unafraid of laying out his grand …
