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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Portfolio.com and bizjournals – 2010 Stress Rankings for Metro Areas

News release: “A Stress Test for America, by G. Scott Thomas Sep 07 2010: “In an exclusive analysis of the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas, Detroit ranks as the most stressful place to live and work, while Salt Lake City lays claim to have the least stress-inducing attributes.” Portfolio.com’s survey: Stress Levels in America’s 50… Continue Reading

World Bank: Rising Global Interest in Farmland and the Importance of Responsible Agricultural Investment

News release: “There are one billion hungry people worldwide. The food and fuel price spike in mid-2008 and continuing price volatility have underscored the vulnerability of the world’s food system to shocks – such as the losses in crop production in the summer of 2010 that prompted Russia to ban wheat exports, leading to an… Continue Reading

The Impact of Competition on Technology Adoption: An Apples-to-PCs Analysis

The Impact of Competition on Technology Adoption: An Apples-to-PCs Analysis, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, July 2010, Number 462, by Adam Copeland and Adam Hale Shapiro “We study the effect of market structure on a personal computer manufacturer’s decision to adopt new technology. This industry is unusual because there exist two horizontally segmented retail… Continue Reading

BLS: Employer Costs for Employee Compensation

Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, June 2010 “Private industry employers spent an average of $27.64 per hour worked for employee compensation in June 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Wages and salaries averaged $19.53 per hour worked and accounted for 70.6 percent of these costs, while benefits averaged $8.11 and accounted for… Continue Reading

Outer Continental Shelf Safety Oversight Board Report to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar

News release: “Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that a team led by senior officials in the Department of the Interior, including Interior’s Inspector General, have completed a review of offshore oil and gas oversight and regulation and have delivered a set of recommendations that reinforce and expand on ongoing reforms being carried… Continue Reading

Global study finds we are more likely to give money to charity if we are happy than if we are wealthy

News release: “The World Giving Index Report, the largest study ever carried out into charitable behaviour across the globe, which ranked the UK the eighth most charitable nation in the world, has found that happier people are more likely to give money to charity than those who are wealthy. The World Giving Index used a… Continue Reading

DHS OIG: DHS Needs to Improve the Security Posture of Its Cybersecurity Program Systems

OIG-10-111 – DHS Needs to Improve the Security Posture of Its Cybersecurity Program Systems, September 8, 2010 “Our audit focused on the security of the systems that US-CERT uses to accomplish its cybersecurity mission. Overall, NCSD has implemented adequate physical security and logical access controls over the cybersecurity program systems used to collect, process, and… Continue Reading