Winter 2012 Transparency Index Report, January 2012 “As a new year unfolds and the debate about legal education reform continues, efforts in furtherance of law school transparency remain critical. While transparency of law schools’ post-graduation employment data will not solve all of legal educations problems, it can put pressure on the current law school model… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2012
How Top Companies Create Clarity, Confidence and Community to Build Sustainable Performance
Clear Direction in a Complex World – How Top Companies Create Clarity, Confidence and Community to Build Sustainable Performance. “In a challenging and dynamic business world, success depends on establishing a clear path to navigate through complexity. Organizations and their leaders wherever they are around the world and whatever business environment they face … Continue Reading
Report – Retirement Planning In a Post-Crisis Economy
Retirement Planning In a Post-Crisis Economy, January 2012: “Prolonged economic uncertainty and high unemployment have taken a heavy toll on U.S. workers. Few have escaped hits to their retirement savings or to their confidence in being able to retire comfortably. Unsurprisingly, many Americans have become more financially conservative, cutting back on spending and paying more… Continue Reading
CDC – Prepregnancy Contraceptive Use Among Teens with Unintended Pregnancies Resulting in Live Births
Prepregnancy Contraceptive Use Among Teens with Unintended Pregnancies Resulting in Live Births Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), 20042008, January 20, 2012 “Approximately 400,000 teens aged 1519 years give birth every year in the United States, and the teen birth rate remains the highest in the developed world. Teen childbearing is a public health… Continue Reading
Dept. of Labor – Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report
Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report, January 19, 2012: “In the week ending January 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 352,000, a decrease of 50,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 402,000. The 4-week moving average was 379,000, a decrease of 3,500 from the previous week’s revised average of 382,500. The… Continue Reading
Bizjournals – Men hold educational advantage in 485 markets, women in 431
“Bizjournals On Numbers compared the educational attainment of men and women in 942 metropolitan and micropolitan areas, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 American Community Survey. The percentage of men possessing four-year college degrees is higher than the comparable percentage of women in 485 markets. But women hold the educational edge in 431… Continue Reading
DOD Joint Operational Access Concept
DOD Joint Operational Access Concept (JOAC) News release: “Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “The [concept] outlines how we will confront emerging anti-access/area denial [referred to by military members as A2/AD] threats by state and non-state enemies across the globe,” the chairman noted in his blog…A2/AD is not new,… Continue Reading
Lessons from Medicare's Demonstration Projects on Disease Management, Care Coordination, and Value-Based Payment
Lessons from Medicare’s Demonstration Projects on Disease Management, Care Coordination, and Value-Based Payment – January 18, 2012. “In the past two decades, Medicare has conducted two broad categories of demonstrations aimed at enhancing the quality of health care and improving the efficiency of health care delivery in its fee-for-service program: Disease management and care coordination… Continue Reading
FDIC Board Proposes Stress Testing Regulation for Large Banks
News release:”The FDIC today approved a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) that would require certain large insured depository institutions to conduct annual capital-adequacy stress tests. The proposal, to implement section 165(i)(2) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, would apply to FDIC-insured state nonmember banks and FDIC-insured state-chartered savings associations with total… Continue Reading
OECD unemployment rate stable at 8.2% in November 2011, but national rates diverge
News release: “The OECD area unemployment rate was stable at 8.2% in November 2011, unchanged since August. The rate has hovered at this level since January 2011. However, stability at the aggregate level masks different national situations. The Euro areas unemployment rate remained at 10.3% in November the highest rate recorded since the start… Continue Reading
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education – Workforce Framework
“The NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework offers a working taxonomy and common lexicon that can be overlaid onto any organization’s existing occupational structure. Although much work has gone into this framework, we need to ensure that it can be adopted and used across the nation. We are actively seeking to refine this framework with input from… Continue Reading
DOE provides detailed onshore wind resource map
“Wind Powering America (a DOE program initiative) publishes an onshore wind resource map for the United States, at 80 meters above ground and with resolution down to 2.5 meters. This map was updated in March 2010, the first comprehensive update of U.S. wind energy potential since 1993. The 2010 update to the wind resource map… Continue Reading
