EU: Unemployment, working poor and vulnerable employment to increase dramatically due to global economic crisis. Global Employment Trends January 2009, International Labour Organization: “The global financial crisis has triggered a serious slowdown in world economic growth including recession in the largest industrialized countries. Enterprises have stopped hiring and many are laying off workers in considerable… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Stimulus Bill Includes Clear Directive on Executive Compensation
Follow up to February 4, 2009 posting, Treasury Announces New Restrictions On Executive Compensation , from ProPublica, Stimulus Bill Limits TARP Exec Pay: “…tucked into the 1,071-page bill [H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009] is a twelve-page section that goes much further than any limits imposed by the Bush administration or… Continue Reading
ProPublica – The Stimulus Plan: A Detailed List of Spending
The Stimulus Plan: A Detailed List of Spending by Michael Grabell and Christopher Weaver, ProPublica: “The appropriations section of the bill details spending in excess of $311 billion for programs ranging from Pell grants for college students to clean water in central Utah to nearly $100 billion in new transportation and infrastructure projects. Heres our… Continue Reading
Historical Version of Bush Presidential Website
Welcome to the White House, President George W. Bush: “This is historical material, “frozen in time.” The web site is no longer updated and links to external web sites and some internal pages will not work.” [Note: this site is a useful resource for research associated with primary government documents generated during thetwo terms of… Continue Reading
New GAO Report: Aviation Security – Federal Air Marshal Service
Aviation Security: Federal Air Marshal Service Has Taken Actions to Fulfill Its Core Mission and Address Workforce Issues, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Improve Workforce Survey, GAO-09-273, January 14, 2009. “Because the number of air marshals is less than the number of daily flights, FAMSs operational approach is to assign air marshals to selected… Continue Reading
FTC Staff Revises Online Behavioral Advertising Principles
News release: “Federal Trade Commission staff…issued a report describing its ongoing examination of online behavioral advertising and setting forth revisions to proposed principles to govern self-regulatory efforts in this area. The key issue concerns how online advertisers can best protect consumers privacy while collecting information about their online activities…The report discusses the potential benefits of… Continue Reading
Where the Money Goes – Selected programs from the $789.2 billion bill
Free WSJ chart: Where the Money Goes | Selected programs from the $789.2 billion bill: Spending – 24% | Aid 38% | Tax Cuts 38% Related postings on H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Related postings on financial system Continue Reading
Pew Internet: Twitter and status updating
“In the past three years, developments in social networking and internet applications have begun providing internet users with more opportunities for sharing short updates about themselves, their lives, and their whereabouts online. Users may post messages about their status, their moods, their location and other tidbits on social networks and blogging sites, or on applications… Continue Reading
HR1: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (stimulus bill)
Via THOMAS: HR1: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (stimulus bill) New York Times – Stimulus Plan Places New Limits on Wall St. Bonuses: “The restriction with the most bite would bar top executives from receiving bonuses exceeding one-third of their annual pay. Any bonus would have to be in the form of… Continue Reading
New York Times Documents Lives Lost in Buffalo Plane Crash
In the article Fifty Varied Lives, Ended on a Cold, Foggy Night the New York Times shares the loss using photos, text, a slide show and related links. Continue Reading
Report: Variety of Chemicals Found in Waters Flowing into Lake Champlain
News release: “A variety of man-made chemicals has been found in the streams and wastewaters that discharge into Lake Champlain. The chemicals found include pesticides, fire retardants, fragrances, detergent degradates, and caffeine. These findings were released today by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The chemicals were found at extremely low concentrations, measuring a few parts… Continue Reading
EU – Facts on new wage challenges: trends and policy issues
8th European Regional Meeting – Facts on new wage challenges: trends and policy issues: “Wages have been one of the most widely discussed issues throughout the region in recent years and will undoubtedly continue to be so in the context of the present financial crisis. The region from mid-90s has experienced some improvements in terms… Continue Reading
