An Analysis of Health Insurance Premiums Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, November 30, 2009 – Letter to the Honorable Evan Bayh “There is great interest in how proposals being considered by the Congress to change the health care and health insurance systems would affect premiums paid for health insurance in various markets.… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: November 2009
24th Trouble in Toyland Report
The 24th Annual Survey of Toy Safety, U.S. PIRG Education Fund, November 2009: “Toys should bring kids joy, but sometimes they bring injury, serious harm, or even death. This holiday season, as we have for the past 23 years, U.S. PIRG is working to reduce the number of injuries and tragedies caused by dangerous toys.… Continue Reading
OECD Economic Outlook November 2009
OECD Economic Outlook No. 86, November 2009: “The economic recovery now spreading across OECD countries is still too timid to halt the continuing rise in unemployment. The jobless rate is expected to peak in the first half of 2010 in the US, but it may not be until 2011 that unemployment begins to fall in… Continue Reading
Rethinking School Feeding: Social Safety Nets, Child Development, and the Education Sector
World Bank news release: “According to the new report – Rethinking School Feeding: Social Safety Nets, Child Development, and the Education Sector – school feeding programs in poor countries boost school attendance, help children to learn more effectively, and spur better performance in class, especially when these programs are twinned with other measures such as… Continue Reading
Saving your local economy three stores at a time
The 3/50 Project: “Think about which three independently owned businesses you’d miss most of they were gone. Stop in and say hello. Pick up a little something that will make someone smile. Your contribution is what keeps those businesses around.” Continue Reading
Bernake: The right reform for the Fed
WaPo Op-Ed: The right reform for the Fed, by Ben Bernanke – Sunday, November 29, 2009 “For many Americans, the financial crisis, and the recession it spawned, have been devastating — jobs, homes, savings lost. Understandably, many people are calling for change. Yet change needs to be about creating a system that works better, not… Continue Reading
Visual Literacy: An E-Learning Tutorial on Visualization for Communication, Engineering and Business
“This e-learning site focuses on a critical, but often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering students, namely visual literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply, or create conceptual visual representations. After this tutorial, students should be able to evaluate advantages and disadvantages of visual representations, to improve their shortcomings, to use them to create… Continue Reading
Commentary: Two Lists You Should Look at Every Morning
Harvard Business, Peter Bregman: “The speed with which information hurtles towards us is unavoidable (and it’s getting worse). But trying to catch it all is counterproductive. The faster the waves come, the more deliberately we need to navigate. Otherwise we’ll get tossed around like so many particles of sand, scattered to oblivion. Never before has… Continue Reading
Bankruptcies in FY 2009 Rose By 34.5 Percent
News release: “Bankruptcy cases filed in federal courts for fiscal year 2009 totaled 1,402,816, up 34.5 percent over the 1,042,993 filings reported for the 12-month period ending September 30, 2008, according to statistics released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The federal Judiciarys fiscal year is the 12-month period ending September 30.… Continue Reading
Verizon Wireless Voluntarily Discloses Environmental Violations
News release: “Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay a $468,600 civil penalty to settle self-disclosed violations of federal environmental regulations discovered at 655 facilities in 42 states. Verizon voluntarily entered into a corporate audit agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and conducted environmental compliance audits at more than 25,000 facilities nation-wide. The Environmental Appeals… Continue Reading
EPA Releases Guide to Help Scientists Understand Childrens Exposure to Pollutants
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released a user-friendly document to help risk assessors understand how children are exposed to pollution. The document, titled Highlights of the Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook, serves as a quick-reference guide to the more comprehensive Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook, published by EPA in 2008. It will serve as… Continue Reading
Brookings – Telling the Narrative of the Financial Crisis: Not Just a Housing Bubble
Telling the Narrative of the Financial Crisis: Not Just a Housing Bubble – Douglas J. Elliott, Fellow, Economic Studies, Initiative on Business and Public Policy, Martin Neil Baily, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies – The Brookings Institution, November 23, 2009. “Major crises, such as the recent financial crisis, usually end up being understood by the public… Continue Reading
