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Economic Policy Institute: Do subprime loans create subprime cities? Surging inequality and the rise in predatory lending, February 28, 2008. “In the paper, published by EPI as part of its Agenda for Shared Prosperity, author Gregory D. Squires, a George Washington University sociologist, contends that increasing economic inequality and diminishing access to conventional financial services …
“InsideCounsels 2008 Comp Report measures law department compensation using Hildebrandts Law Department Survey and Altman Weils Law Department Compensation Benchmarking Survey. Hildebrandt surveyed 202 companies on 2006 year-end data. The median respondent company had more than $10 billion in worldwide revenues, 20,000-plus employees and a U.S. law department with nearly 30 lawyers. Altman Weil used …
News release: “What is needed is a new national security strategy and a renewed commitment to homeland security, one that builds capabilities from the ground up rather than imposing unfunded mandates from the top down. Adequate resources must be committed to all dimensions of national power, not just one. Investments should not just enhance our …
American Journalism Review: “While the line “according to Wikipedia” pops up occasionally in news stories, its relatively rare to see the user-created online encyclopedia cited as a source. But some journalists find it very valuable as a road map to troves of valuable information.”
News release: “The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has released a new report, The Global War on Terrorism: An Assessment (292 pages, PDF), authored by Senior Fellow Robert C. Martinage. The report concludes that the United States reached a high-water mark in the war on terrorism in 2003. At that time, the Taliban had …
“An extensive new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details the religious affiliation of the American public and explores the shifts taking place in the U.S. religious landscape. Based on interviews with more than 35,000 Americans age 18 and older, the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey finds that religious affiliation in the …
Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper – Renewing U.S. Manufacturing: Promoting a High-Road Strategy, by Susan Helper, February 13, 2008 (39 pages, PDF). “Over the last decade, the United States lost manufacturing jobs at a stunning rate: 16% of its manufacturing jobs disappeared in just the three years between 2000 and 2003, with a further decline …
News release: “Despite the turmoil in the housing market and the prospect for a recession, the nation’s community banks were mildly optimistic about their ability to increase mortgage lending this year, according to the American Bankers Association’s 15th annual Real Estate Lending Survey.”
News release: “A health care plan that combines the best elements of the current employer-based system and the Medicare model would create big savings, offer more choices and guarantee affordable coverage to all U.S. residents, according to a new cost and coverage analysis of the plan by the Lewin Group, a nationally respected nonpartisan consulting …
“CNAS and Foreign Policy magazine set out to address some of the most challenging questions facing the U.S. military in the 21st century: What is the state of America’s military? How healthy are the armed forces? How prepared are they for future conflicts? How confident are they in civilian leaders and government institutions? And what …
Press release: “The Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) has unveiled AgainstDisease.com, which houses a new publication that describes the historic and present-day impact of hygiene and cleaning on public health. Against Disease: The Impact of Hygiene and Cleanliness on Health (128 pages, PDF) is an update of the 1984 SDA publication, Cleanliness and the Health …
“A major new look at the trends and issues impacting economic opportunity for Americans was released today by the Economic Mobility Project, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America, is authored by three Brookings Institution scholars, Julia B. Isaacs, Isabel V. Sawhill and Ron Haskins and …
