Matthew Broaddus, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities “On September 12, the Census Bureau will release estimates of the number of Americans with and without health insurance coverage in 2011, based on its annual Current Population Survey. Other survey data and historical trends provide clues as to what the Census data are likely to show.… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2012
Declines in Unemployment Benefits and Government Employment Shaped Poverty Trends in 2011
Declines in Unemployment Benefits and Government Employment Shaped Poverty Trends in 2011, Preliminary Data Suggest, by Arloc Sherman and Danilo Trisi, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, September 7, 2012 “A preliminary analysis of Census data for the first 11 months of 2011 (which are the latest data now available) indicates that the average share… Continue Reading
Pubget – search engine for life science PDFs
“Pubget develops cloud-based content access tools for scientists, researchers and libraries. The companys core product, pubget.com, is a free site for legally finding and directly retrieving research papers. [It is] the comprehensive source for science PDFs, including everything you’d find in Medline. We add 10,000 new papers each day…Pubget was purchased by Copyright Clearance Center,… Continue Reading
Primer on Disability Benefits: Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income
CRS – Primer on Disability Benefits: Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Umar Moulta-Ali, Analyst in Disability Policy, August 31, 2012 “Generally, the goal of disability insurance is to replace a portion of a workers income should illness or disability prevent him or her from working. Individuals may receive disability benefits… Continue Reading
Executive Summary 2012 APEC Economic Policy Report
“This is an executive summary of the 2012 APEC Economic Policy Report which will be published by early October 2012. The 2012 APEC Economic Policy Report assesses the progress made by APEC in the priority areas included in the ‘Ease of Doing Business’ initiative.” Continue Reading
Working Paper – Central Banking for Financial Stability in Asia
Central Banking for Financial Stability in Asia, Asian Development Bank Institute Working Paper Series No. 377, Masahiro Kawai and Peter J. Morgan, August 2012 “A key lesson of the 20072009 global financial crisis (GFC) was the importance of containing systemic financial risk and the need for a macroprudential approach to surveillance and regulation that can… Continue Reading
Natural gas demand at power plants was high in summer 2012
Energy Information Administration: “Natural gas use for power generation rose this summer because of hot-weather-driven electricity demand for air conditioning coupled with low natural gas prices. According to Bentek Energy, estimated daily natural gas use to produce electric power (also called power burn) averaged 26.3 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) so far in 2012… Continue Reading
Paper – The Perils of Learning and Sharing Everything' from a Criminal Information Sharing Perspective
Sliter, John R., ‘Techno-Risk – the Perils of Learning and Sharing Everything’ from a Criminal Information Sharing Perspective (September 9, 2012). 30th Symposium on Economic Crime in Cambridge, England on September 5th, 2012. Available at SSRN. “The author has extensive law enforcement experience and the paper is intended to provoke thought on the use of… Continue Reading
CRS – The Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Issues for Congress
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Issues for Congress, September 5, 2012 “The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a proposed regional free trade agreement (FTA) being negotiated among the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. U.S. negotiators and others describe and envision the TPP as a comprehensive and high-standard… Continue Reading
FHA – Bike Sharing in the United States: State of the Practice and Guide to Implementation
Bike Sharing in the United States: State of the Practice and Guide to Implementation, September 2012 “With the introduction of new and more advanced bike sharing programs, and the continued interest and political support for them throughout many U.S. cities, it is important to provide an objective analysis of bike share programs, and to document… Continue Reading
Gallup – Global Payroll to Population Employment Rate at 27% for 2011
Gallup – “Twenty-seven percent of the world’s adults were employed full time for an employer in 2011, according to Gallup’s new “Payroll to Population” metric. This new measure estimates the percentage of the entire 15 and older population — not just those currently in the workforce — who are employed full time for an employer… Continue Reading
The Geography of the Great Recession
Fogli, Alessandra, Hill, Enoch and Perri, Fabrizio, The Geography of the Great Recession (September 2012). Chapter in NBER Book NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2012, Francesco Giavazzi and Kenneth West, organizers. Available at SSRN. Continue Reading
