“The National Financial Capability Study established a baseline measure of the ability of Americans to manage their money, benchmarking four key indicators of financial capability and evaluating how these indicators vary with underlying demographic, behavioral, attitudinal and financial literacy characteristics…The National Survey is one of three linked surveys that comprise the National Financial Capability Study.… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2009
National Financial Capability Challenge for high-school aged youth
“The National Financial Capability Challenge is a non-monetary awards program designed to increase the financial knowledge and capability of high-school aged youth across the United States. It challenges youth to take control of their financial future by learning more about personal finance, and it challenges teachers and schools to incorporate the important information and topics… Continue Reading
FTC Issues Report to Congress on Use of its Enhanced Authority Under the U.S. SAFE WEB Act
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission has issued a report to Congress examining how the agency has used the expanded law enforcement authority Congress provided in the U.S. SAFE WEB Act to protect American consumers since the Act was signed into law on December 22, 2006. The SAFE WEB Act authorizes the FTC to share… Continue Reading
The Effects of Climate Change on U.S. Ecosystems
The Effects of Climate Change on U.S. Ecosystems, November 2009 “The Earths climate is changing. The Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date scientific assessment of this issue, stating with very high confidence that human activities such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation have… Continue Reading
Annual Energy Outlook 2010 Early Release Overview
Annual Energy Outlook 2010 Early Release Overview Dec 14, 2009: “The AEO2010 presents long-term projections of energy supply, demand, and prices through 2035, which are based on results from EIA’s National Energy Modeling System (NEMS). The AEO2010 Early Release only includes the reference case. The full publication, including many additional cases examining energy markets,… Continue Reading
International Energy Agency: Global Gaps in Clean Energy, Research, Devlopment and Demonstration
“IEA released a new study on research, development and demonstration (RD&D) spending needs for the low-carbon technologies being targeted by the Major Economies Forum on Energy & Climate Change. The study finds that while public RD&D investments have increased recently as a result of green stimulus funding, government RD&D investments will need to rise 3-10… Continue Reading
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational employment projections to 2018
Occupational employment projections to 2018: “Professional and related occupations and service occupations are expected to create more new jobs than all other occupational groups from 2008 to 2018; in addition, growth will be faster among occupations for which postsecondary education is the most significant form of education or training, and, across all occupations, replacement needs… Continue Reading
The New York Times/CBS News Poll of Unemployed Adults
“Joblessness has wreaked both financial and emotional havoc on the lives of many of those out of work, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll of unemployed adults, causing major life changes, mental health issues and struggles to maintain even basic necessities in large numbers. The poll surveyed 708 unemployed adults from Dec. 5… Continue Reading
Transcript of Wide Ranging Three Hour Interview with Al Gore
Jose Antonio Vargas, Technology and Innovations editor, Huffington Post: “This is the transcript of a wide-ranging, two-part, three-hour interview with Al Gore, touching on the impact of technology and the Internet in politics, both in the U.S. and abroad; the state of the mainstream media and the left and right blogosphere; the role of the… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com – Deep Web Research 2010
Deep Web Research 2010: Marcus P. Zillman is a an internet search expert whose extensive knowledge of how to leverage the “invisible” or “deep” web is exemplified in this guide. The Deep Web covers somewhere in the vicinity of 1 trillion pages of information located through the world wide web in various files and formats.… Continue Reading
CREW, National Security Archive and Obama Administration Settle Lawsuit Over Missing Bush White House Email
News release: “Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the National Security Archive (NSA) reached a final settlement of their long-running lawsuits challenging the failure of the Bush White House and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to take any action after confronted with evidence that millions of emails had gone… Continue Reading
Citigroup, U.S. government and regulators agree to TARP repayment
From the Statement: “Agreement reached to terminate loss-sharing agreement Cancelling $1.8 billion of $7.1 billion of trust preferred securities held by the U.S. government as consideration for agreement. Citigroup will cease being a beneficiary of TARP Exceptional Financial Assistance beginning in 2010.” Treasury Statement Regarding Citigroup’s Intention to Repay Taxpayers See also related WSJ… Continue Reading
