Financial Reform or Financial Dementia? Remarks by Richard W. Fisher at the SW Graduate School of Banking 53rd Annual Keynote Address and Banquet Dallas, Texas, June 3, 2010 “My message to you tonight is to remember where we have been. We have collectively been to hell and back. Lets not go there again. Lets remember… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster – Anywhere in the U.S.
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this Website by Andy Lintner, Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster using NOAA data [via NewsLib and Tom Johnson]. This mashup allows users to enter a geographical location in the United States and the dimensions of the oil spill are then relocated to show the impact… Continue Reading
Searchable Website Using Government Data Shows How Where We Live Impact Our Health
“County Sin Rankings helps you quickly and easily understand the health of your community. There are many factors that determine the health of a county. County Sin Rankings takes a humorous look at seven health factors as related to the seven deadly sins. Look up your county, compare it to other counties in your state,… Continue Reading
VP Biden: Middle Class Task Force white paper on Helping Americans Get Back To Work
Subsidized Jobs: Helping Americans Get Back To Work – “Because the Recovery Act is a temporary stimulus designed to boost job creation through a period of great labor market distress, programs in the Act sunset according to a preset schedule. However, if a program is still needed after its assigned shutoff dateSeptember 30, 2010 in… Continue Reading
BLS: Employment Situation – May 2010
News release: “Total nonfarm payroll employment grew by 431,000 in May, reflecting the hiring of 411,000 temporary employees to work on Census 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Private-sector employment changed little (+41,000). Manufacturing, temporary help services, and mining added jobs, while construction employment declined. The unemployment rate edged down to 9.7… Continue Reading
HHS and Institute of Medicine launched national initiative to help consumers and communities get more value out of Nations wealth of health data
Community Health Data Initiative Interim Work Page: “The Community Health Data Initiative is a collaborative effort among government and non-government partners to establish a network of suppliers and demanders of community health data, indicators, and interventions. Its purpose is to help Americans understand health and health care system performance in their communities, thereby sparking and… Continue Reading
WSJ: Model Suggests Slick Could Zoom Up East Coast
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this news release, via WSJ.com: “New supercomputer studies suggest it is “very likely” ocean currents will carry oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico around the tip of Florida and thousands of miles up the U.S. East Coast this summer, researchers… Continue Reading
National Archives Clinton Library to Open Kagan Records
News release: “The William Clinton Presidential Library will open records relating to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagans tenure at the White House Domestic Policy Council and the White House Counsels Office. The release of papers from the approximately 160,000 pages of material will be made available on the Clinton Library web site in batches… Continue Reading
EPA Sets Stronger National Air Quality Standard for Sulfur Dioxide
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a final new health standard for sulfur dioxide (SO2). This one-hour health standard will protect millions of Americans from short-term exposure to SO2, which is primarily emitted from power plants and other industrial facilities. Exposure to SO2 can aggravate asthma and cause other respiratory difficulties.… Continue Reading
Report: The Perils of Performance Measurement
The Perils of Performance Measurement, by Olivier Serrat, Asia Development Bank [Stuart Basefsky] “Today, performance is appraised the world over: in academia, the arts, business, entertainment, government, news, politics, schools, science, sports, and war, among others. In the public sector, the need to sell the idea that management is improving means that indicators proliferate, on… Continue Reading
Report to the UN Human Rights Council on legal issues raised by targeted killing
News release: “Targeted killings pose a rapidly growing challenge to the international rule of law. They are increasingly used in circumstances which violate the relevant rules of international law. The international community needs to be more forceful in demanding accountability, said Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions. Alstons report to the Human… Continue Reading
CDC: 2006-2008 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) Public Use Files released
“The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) gathers information on family life, marriage and divorce, pregnancy, infertility, use of contraception, and men’s and women’s health. The survey results are used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and others to plan health services and health education programs, and to do statistical studies of… Continue Reading
