News release: “From April to July 2012, the number of employed youth 16 to 24 years old rose 2.1 million to 19.5 million, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This year, the share of young people employed in July was 50.2 percent. (The month of July typically is the summertime peak in youth employment.) Unemployment among youth increased by 836,000 from April to July 2012, compared with an increase of 745,000 for the same period in 2011. (Because this analysis focuses on the seasonal changes in youth employment and unemployment that occur each spring and summer, the data are not seasonally adjusted.)” See also:
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Daily Archives: August 20, 2012
New GAO Reports – EPA Info Security, Medicaid Supplemental Payments
Information Security – Environmental Protection Agency Needs to Resolve Weaknesses, GAO-12-696, July 19, 2012 Medicaid – States Reported Billions More in Supplemental Payments in Recent Years, GAO-12-694, July 20, 2012 Continue Reading
Chronicle of Philanthropy Report – How America Gives
“The nations generosity divide is vast, according to a new Chronicle of Philanthropy study that charts giving patterns in every state, city, and ZIP code. In states like Utah and Mississippi, the typical household gives more than 7 percent of its income to charity, while the average household in Massachusetts and three other New England… Continue Reading
DOJ Office of Information Policy's current report on status of FOIA
Summary of Agency Chief FOIA Officer Reports for 2012 and Assessment of Agency Progress in Implementing the President’s FOIA Memorandum and the Attorney General’s FOIA Guidelines With OIP Guidance for Further Improvement, August 2012 “OIP selected for the assessment seventeen milestones tied to the five key areas addressed in the Chief FOIA Officer Reports. These… Continue Reading
BLS – Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary
News release: “Regional and state unemployment rates were generally little changed or slightly higher in July 2012. Forty-four states recorded unemployment rate increases, two states and the District of Columbia posted rate decreases, and four states had no change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Forty-four states and the District of Columbia registered… Continue Reading
Paper – Booms and Systemic Banking Crises
Boissay, Frédéric, Collard, Fabrice and Smets, Frank, Booms and Systemic Banking Crises (August 15, 2012). Available at SSRN: “The empirical literature on systemic banking crises (SBCs) has shown that SBCs are rare events that break out in the midst of credit intensive booms and bring about particularly deep and long-lasting recessions. We attempt to explain… Continue Reading
comScore Releases July 2012 U.S. Online Video Rankings
News release: “comScore, Inc. a leader in measuring the digital world, released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that more than 184 million U.S. Internet users watched 36.9 billion online content videos in July, while video ad views totaled 9.6 billion. Top 10 Video Content Properties by Unique Viewers: “Google Sites, driven primarily… Continue Reading
CBP Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: CBP Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights – October 2012 “Stopping the flow of fake goods is a priority for the U.S. government. U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a component of the Department of Homeland Security, has a multi-layered approach to IPR enforcement that includes… Continue Reading
Deloitte: How America can regain global leadership in manufacturing
“Manufacturing is experiencing a crisis of confidence in the United States. Americans view the manufacturing sector in the U.S. as fragile and unstable. They are concerned about the long-term stability of manufacturing employment and fear that manufacturing jobs will inevitably be moved to workers in other countries. Despite these fears, Americans remain steadfast in their… Continue Reading
Report – current rate of ageing in EU economically unsustainable
“The current rate of ageing in the European Union is economically unsustainable. This is the main policy message from the LEPAS collaborative project (Long-run Economic Perspectives on an Ageing Society), carried out throughout the last three years by researchers from Spain, Denmark, Germany and Austria. This EU-funded research has tackled the urgent need to better… Continue Reading
Report – Executive compensation tax deductions cost Treasury $30.4 billion over 2007-10
“A new EPI report, Taxes and executive compensation, by Temple University accounting professor Steven Balsam, provides estimates of the tax deductions and lost tax revenue associated with the executive compensation of publicly-held companies. The graph shows that tax-deductible executive compensation cost the federal treasury $30.4 billion over the years 20072010; $16.6 billion from performance-based compensation… Continue Reading
