“Today, one in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain out of work. One in nine families can’t make the minimum payment on their credit cards. One in eight mortgages is in default or foreclosure. One in eight Americans is on food stamps. More than 120,000 families are filing for bankruptcy every month. The economic crisis has wiped more than $5 trillion from pensions and savings, has left family balance sheets upside down, and threatens to put ten million homeowners out on the street.” Elizabeth Warren, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard and currently the Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel.
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Daily Archives: December 3, 2009
Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2008
Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2008 Dec 3, 2009. Annual inventory of anthropogenic (human-caused) greenhouse gases in the United States. U.S. Energy Information Administration Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting U.S. Department of Energy. Energy-related CO2 emissions dominate total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The figures..show the shares of energy-related CO2 emissions… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: DOJ's Civil Rights Division, NASA, Hurricane Katrina, Merida Initiative, Employment Litiigation
DOJ’s Civil Rights Division: Opportunities Exist to Improve Its Case Management System and Better Meet Its Reporting Needs GAO-09-938R, September 30, 2009 Federal Research: NASA Should Better Inform Researchers about How to Appeal Dissemination Decisions, GAO-10-200, December 3, 2009 Hurricane Katrina: Federal Grants Have Helped Health Care Organizations Provide Primary Care, but Sustaining Services Will… Continue Reading
Pew Survey Report: Isolationist Sentiment Surges to Four-Decade High
Pew Center for People and the Press: Americas Place in the World 2009 – U.S. Seen as Less Important, China as More Powerful, December 3, 2009 “The general public and members of the Council on Foreign Relations are apprehensive and uncertain about Americas place in the world. Growing numbers in both groups see the United… Continue Reading
CBO Testimony: The Use of Agricultural Offsets to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
The Use of Agricultural Offsets to Reduce Greenhouse Gases, December 3, 2009. Testimony before the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research, Committee on Agriculture, U.S. House of Representatives. “Offsets used as a part of a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse-gas emissions have the potential to reduce the cost of meeting the cap by substituting cheaper… Continue Reading
Google Launches New Streamlined Search Page
Official Google Blog: “The main feature of the new homepage is that it “fades in” when the page first loads, it shows only our logo, the search box and the buttons. For the vast majority of people who come to the Google homepage, they are coming in order to search, and this clean, minimalist… Continue Reading
Commentary: What is Good for Goldman Sachs is Good for America -The Origins of the Present Crisis
Brenner, Robert. (2009). What is Good for Goldman Sachs is Good for America The Origins of the Present Crisis. UC Los Angeles: Center for Social Theory and Comparative History. Retrieved from: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sg0782h “Robert Brenner outlines the long-term causes of the present economic crisis. Rather than understanding the current downturn as merely a function of financial… Continue Reading
