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“A new Kaiser Family Foundation report, Health Care on a Budget: An Analysis of Spending by Medicare Households, finds that in 2006, out-of-pocket health care spending accounted for 14.1 percent of all expenditures for Medicare households less than housing (34.1 percent) but about the same as transportation (15.0 percent) and food (13.6 percent). And, …
“Almost 150 years after Charles Darwin published his groundbreaking work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Americans are still fighting over evolution. If anything, the controversy has recently grown in both size and intensity. In the last five years alone, for example, debates over how evolution should be taught in public …
News release: “While the country’s 6.5 million privately held, women-owned firms generated an estimated $940 billion in sales and employed 7.1 million people in 2002, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, a Kauffman Foundation research report released today indicates that women-owned firms have relatively underperformed men-owned firms in a number of measures. The Kauffman Foundation …
Bank Direct Magazine: “There is not much flash and glitz among this years crop of top-performing U.S. banks and thrifts. But given all thats occurred in the last six months, maybe slow and steady really is the name of the game. In fact, over a recent 12-month period, as the credit and financial markets came …
WSJ: What’s Hot Off the Lots | Top 20 vehicles | The U.S. Market | Sales and Share of Total Market by Manufacturer
Ahead of the Curve: In 2009, Your Lawyers Are Your Best Knowledge Management Resource – Gretta Rusanow outlines her recommendations on why this year presents an excellent opportunity to work on those long-desired collections of models, best practice documents, sample clauses and know how files.
Follow up to previous postings on the Google Book search project, from the New York Review of Books, Google & the Future of Books, by Robert Darnton “How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between …
Collaboration Through Wikis at Hicks Morley – Heather Colman explains how wikis were an ideal KM solution for her law firm. Quick and easy to set up, requiring little IT support, wikis support central data repositories and provide features including search capabilities, email, RSS, and also allow users to create a taxonomy of subject tags …
2009 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, Produced by the American Society of Civil Engineers News release: “The Report Card is an assessment by professional engineers of the nation’s status in 15 categories of infrastructure. In 2009, all signs point to an infrastructure that is poorly maintained, unable to meet current and future demands, and in …
From Catalyst Inc. Quick Takes, this new data: Women in U.S. Management. Note: 15.7% of Fortune 500 Corporate Officer Positions are Held by Women, but Women Comprise 46.4% of the U.S. Labor Force. And another data set from Catalyst – this pyramid of Women in U.S. Information, January 2009.
The U.S. wind energy industry shattered all previous records in 2008 by installing 8,358 megawatts (MW) of new generating capacity (enough to serve over 2 million homes), the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said today, even as it warned of an uncertain outlook for 2009 due to the continuing financial crisis. The massive growth in …
“This report examines changes in the IT R&D ecosystem over the past decade and makes recommendations to strengthen the effectiveness and impact of federally funded information technology research; for the U.S. to remain the strongest generator of and magnet for technical talent; to reduce friction that harms the effectiveness of the U.S. IT R&D ecosystem; …
