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Deloitte 2009 Industry Outlook: Automotive Challenging Times, Emerging Opportunities, January 2009. “There is no question that the automotive industry is in turmoil. While the Detroit 3 have been struggling with profitability and the restructuring of their operations for the past few years, the global financial crisis has begun to negatively impact automotive Original Equipment Manufacturers …
News release: “According to a new study commissioned by HNTB Corporation, Americans overwhelmingly believe the nation’s infrastructure is crumbling and are willing to spend more of their tax dollars to fix it. They also recognize improving infrastructure creates jobs and improves quality of life. In the nationwide survey conducted earlier this month, more than four …
Carlyle group presentation on the world financial crisis, 15 Oct 2008 [via Wikileaks – 80 pages, PDF] Related postings on financial system
E-Discovery Update: Revisiting ESI Agreements and Court Orders – Conrad J. Jacoby focuses on the new requirement that litigants must meet early in a dispute to discuss the scope of discovery work to reach agreement on how best to proceed with the discovery of potentially relevant electronically stored information (ESI). What happens, though, when fundamental …
Six Questions and a Strategy for Campus-wide Information Competence. At Cornell University Library (CUL) a committee was established in 2005 to address the issue of information literacy at the university. The committee did extensive research on this topic and developed an approach for seeking solutions. Stuart Basefsky presents three exhibits to accomplish this objective.
askSam: “Search the full text transcripts of more than 200 speeches by United States President and former Senator, Barack Obama. Search keywords and phrases, search by speech title, speech date, or speech location in more than 200 Obama speeches.”
News release: “The Conference Board Employment Trends Index (ETI) fell further in January. The index now stands at 96.6, down 1.0 percent from the December revised figure of 97.5, and down 18.6 percent from a year ago. The Employment Trends Index has recently been declining faster than at any time since the 1974 recession, said …
A New Perspective on “Saving” for Retirement, Research Report, February 2009: “The concepts of “saving” and “wealth” are examined in this AARP Public Policy Institute Insight on the Issues. Author John Gist explains how our standard measure of saving provides little insight into household retirement wealth accumulation and draws implications for understanding retirement preparation.”
Center for Research Libraries/Global Resources Network: The Future of Newspapers: A Conversation. Alex Jones, Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in the Press and Public Policy and Director of the Shorenstein Center, Harvard University, John Carroll, Former Editor, Los Angeles Times. See also International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON)
Unemployed and Uninsured in America analyzes the health coverage status of unemployed workers with low and moderate incomes, including national and state-level data. (February 2009) Related postings on financial system
Center for American Progress. Rescuing the American Economy – A Guide to How the Stimulus Works, by Michael Ettlinger | February 5, 2009. “The economy was already performing badly by many measures before the recession started in December 2007, but the poor economic performance was partially camouflaged by rising asset valuesespecially home values. Those rising …
“Nonfarm private employment decreased 522,000 from December 2008 to January 2009 on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the ADP National Employment Report®. The estimated change of employment from November to December 2008 was revised up by 34,000, from a decline of 693,000 to a decline of 659,000. Nonfarm private employment decreased 522,000 from December …
