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Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama Back to School Event Arlington, Virginia September 8, 2009

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Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama Back to School Event, Arlington, Virginia, September 8, 2009: “Every single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can provide.”

  • More And More Schools Not Showing Obama’s Stay-In-School Speech
  • White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs: “I think it’s a sad, sad day that the political back and forth has intruded on anyone speaking to schoolchildren and teachers and parents about the responsibilities that they have as we enter a new school year…Right now, nearly 3 in 10 kids in school will not walk across the stage and get a high school diploma. If anybody thinks that’s the recipe for long term economic growth, I’ve got news for them. It’s a sad state of affairs.”
  • Obama’s back-to-school speech inspires some kids

    • UN Trade and Development Report 2009

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    United Nations Trade and Development Report 2009 presents a gloomy global economic outlook in the context of the ongoing global financial and economic crisis. It looks at the channels through which this deep crisis, which originated in developed countries, is spreading to developing and transition economies: through financial flows, international trade and commodity prices, migrants´… Continue Reading

    CDT Urges Privacy Requirements Be Included in Google Books Settlement

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    “CDT filed a “friend of the court” brief in the Southern District of New York [September 4, 2009] requesting that key privacy requirements be included in the Court’s approval of the class-action settlement that would dramatically expand Google Book Search. CDT previously released a report in July analyzing the privacy implications of this settlement and… Continue Reading

    Measuring the Effects of the Business Cycle on the Federal Budget: An Update

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    Measuring the Effects of the Business Cycle on the Federal Budget: An Update, September 1, 2009 Under CBO’s assumptions for its baseline, the cyclically adjusted budget deficit will rise sharply in 2009, to 8.6 percent of potential gross domestic product (GDP) (from 2.7 percent in 2008). Potential GDP is the amount of output that corresponds… Continue Reading

    Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: The 2009 Annual Revision

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    September 2, 2009: “A Federal Reserve Bulletin article, Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: The 2009 Annual Revision article reviews the 2009 annual revision to the index of industrial production (IP) and the related measures of capacity and capacity utilization. It discusses both the changes in estimation methods introduced in the revision and the revised estimates… Continue Reading

    Annual Institute for Policy Studies "Executive Excess" Report

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    America’s Bailout Barons – Taxpayers, High Finance, and the CEO Pay Bubble. Institute for Policy Studies. 16th Annual Executive Compensation. “The 20 U.S. financial firms that have received the most bailout dollars from taxpayers awarded their top five executive officers, in the three years through 2008, pay packages worth a combined $3.2 billion. These 100… Continue Reading