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New Report Defines Economic Security, Shows Families Struggling to Reach American Dream

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News release: “As Congress works to meet the April 8 deadline for a final budget deal for fiscal year 2011, a new report on family economic security details the challenges that many Americans face in covering their basic expenses and the additional hardships families could suffer as a result of proposed budget cuts. The national Basic Economic Security Tables TM (BEST) Index, developed by Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW), a national organization that works to achieve economic independence for women and their families, finds that single workers need $30,012 a year – nearly twice the federal minimum wage – to cover basic expenses. Single-parents require nearly twice the income ($57,756) to support two children, while dual-income households with children require $67,920.”

  • “The Basic Economic Security Tables™ Index (BEST) is a measure of the basic needs and assets workers require for economic security throughout a lifetime and across generations. The BEST follows on a long history of research defining families’ spending and income needs, but reflects a modern economy and contemporary understanding of how families achieve financial stability. The BEST addresses the several pieces of the larger basic economic security picture—basic needs, savings and employment-based benefits—and allows a broad and complete view of worker needs and families’ prospects for achieving the economic security so critical to their futures and to their communities.

    • New GAO Reports: 2010 Lobbying Disclosure, Combating Child Pornography, Key Indicator Systems

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    2010 Lobbying Disclosure: Observations on Lobbyists’ Compliance with Disclosure Requirements, GAO-11-452, April 01, 2011 Military Base Realignments and Closures: Review of the Iowa and Milan Army Ammunition Plants, GAO-11-488R, April 01, 2011 Combating Child Pornography: Steps Are Needed to Ensure That Tips to Law Enforcement Are Useful and Forensic Examinations Are Cost Effective, GAO-11-334, March… Continue Reading

    The Economist: New studies confirm rate at which the earth's temperature is rising

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    The Economist: “On Thursday March 31st Richard Muller of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory gave evidence to the energy and commerce committee of America’s House of Representatives on the surface temperature record…a new and methodologically interesting study, carried out by people some of whom might have been expected to take a somewhat sceptical view on the issue,… Continue Reading

    Rand – Ready for Takeoff: China's Advancing Aerospace Industry

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    Ready for Takeoff – China’s Advancing Aerospace Industry by Roger Cliff, Chad J. R. Ohlandt, David Yang “This monograph assesses China’s aerospace capabilities and the extent to which China’s participation in commercial aerospace markets and supply chains is contributing to the improvement of those capabilities. It examines China’s commercial aviation manufacturing capabilities, its commercial and… Continue Reading