Employment Situation Summary May 2011: “Nonfarm payroll employment changed little (+54,000) in May, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 9.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic reported today. Job gains continued in professional and business services, health care, and mining. Employment levels in other major private-sector industries were little changed, and local government employment continued to decline. Household Survey Data: The number of unemployed persons (13.9 million) and the unemployment rate (9.1 percent) were essentially unchanged in May. The labor force, at 153.7 million, was little changed over the month. Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (8.9 percent), adult women (8.0 percent), teenagers (24.2 percent), whites (8.0 percent), blacks (16.2 percent), and Hispanics (11.9 percent) showed little or no change in May. The jobless rate for Asians was 7.0 percent, not seasonally adjusted.”
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Daily Archives: June 3, 2011
Tenth Study by the Digital Future Project Finds High Levels of Concern about Corporate Intrusion in Personal Lives
Press Release and Highlights: “The annual study of the impact of the Internet on Americans conducted by the Center for the Digital Future found that almost half of Internet users age 16 and older — 48 percent — are worried about companies checking their actions on the Internet. By comparison, the new question for the… Continue Reading
Commentary: Why the U.S. Recovery Is Lagging
Why the U.S. Recovery Is Lagging – Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, June 3, 2011 “CFR’s [Council on Foreign Relations] quarterly chartbook, which sets the U.S. recovery in historical perspective, shows that the economy has expanded by a total… Continue Reading
LLSDC – Truth in Lending Act and Amendments Legislative History
Truth in Lending Act and Amendments Legislative History: Links on Westlaw (WL – GAO Histories) and the Library of Congress (LC – THOMAS CRS Histories) with Public Law links on GPO’s FDsys from 1995, Compiled and Maintained by Rick McKinney, Assistant Law Librarian, Federal Reserve Board Law Library, June 3, 2011 Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Combating Terrorism, Defense Health Care, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
Combating Terrorism: U.S. Government Should Improve Its Reporting on Terrorist Safe Havens, GAO-11-561, June 03, 2011 Combating Terrorism: U.S. Government Strategies and Efforts to Deny Terrorists Safe Haven, GAO-11-713T, June 03, 2011 Defense Health Care: DOD Lacks Assurance That Selected Reserve Members Are Informed about TRICARE Reserve Select, GAO-11-551, June 03, 2011 Intelligence, Surveillance, and… Continue Reading
WSJ: New-Car Prices Hit Record Highs In May
WSJ [includes data chart[: “Auto sales dropped in May, but the prices consumers paid for new cars were higher than ever. According to estimates by TrueCar.com, an industry research and forecasting company, the average transaction price for passenger vehicles in the U.S. totaled $29,817 in May, an increase of $608 or 2.1% compared with a… Continue Reading
UN – Report of Special Rapporteur on promotion and protection of right to freedom of opinion and expression
United Nations General Assembly: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, May 16, 2011 “This report explores key trends and challenges to the right of all individuals to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds through the… Continue Reading
New Publication, Web Page Shed Light on Process of Becoming a Judge
American Constitution Society (ACS): “Have you ever thought about becoming a judge? Even most lawyers and law students dont know much about how to approach the process, the National Asian Pacific American Bar Associations Tina Matsuoka pointed out during an event on the topic yesterday. ACS and seven other legal groups have launched a publication,… Continue Reading
BEA: GDP and the Economy Advance Estimates for the First Quarter of 2011
GDP and the Economy, May 2011: “Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 1.8 percent at an annual rate in the first quarter of 2011, according to the advance estimates of the national income and product accounts (NIPAs). In the fourth quarter of 2010, real GDP increased 3.1 percent. The deceleration in real GDP in the… Continue Reading
