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CBO Presentation: The Economic and Budget Outlook

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The Economic and Budget Outlook, November 2009. CBO Director Doug Elmendorf’s presentation to the American Association for Budget and Program Analysis.

  • “The country faces a fundamental disconnect between the services people expect the government to provide, particularly in the form of benefits for older Americans, and the tax revenues that people are willing to send to the government to finance those services. The fundamental disconnect will have to be addressed in some way if the budget is to be placed on a sustainable course.”
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    • New York Review of Books: Google and the New Digital Future

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    Follow up to previous postings on Google Book Search (GBS), Google and the New Digital Future, Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard “…The digitizing, open-access distribution, and preservation of orphan works could be done by a nonprofit organization such as the Internet Archive, a nonprofit group that was built as a… Continue Reading

    UN: The State of World Population 2009

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    UN: The State of World Population 2009 – Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate “Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of rising seas, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather, concludes The State of World Population 2009,… Continue Reading