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Daily Archives: January 29, 2013

New GAO Reports – Broadcasting Board of Governors, DOD Health Care, Interagency Contracting, Military Personnel

  • Broadcasting Board of Governors – Additional Steps Needed to Address Overlap in International Broadcasting, GAO-13-172, Jan 29, 2013
  • DOD Health Care – Domestic Health Care for Female Servicemembers, GAO-13-205, Jan 29, 2012
  • Interagency Contracting – Agency Actions Address Key Management Challenges, but Additional Steps Needed to Ensure Consistent Implementation of Policy Changes, GAO-13-133R, Jan 29, 2013
  • Military Personnel – DOD Has Taken Steps to Meet the Health Needs of Deployed Servicewomen, but Actions Are Needed to Enhance Care for Sexual Assault Victims, GAO-13-182, Jan 29, 2013

Census Bureau Releases New Features in American FactFinder

“The U.S. Census Bureau today released new features for American FactFinder, an online data tool that allows users to access a variety of Census Bureau statistics, including decennial, American Community Survey and economic census statistics. The new features include a simplified main page design, the option for a guided search and an enhanced community facts… Continue Reading

IMF – Income Mobility and Welfare

Income Mobility and Welfare. Tom Krebs, Pravin Krishna, William Maloney. January 28, 2013 “This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare. Individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, an i.i.d. component representing measurement error or transitory income shocks and an AR(1)… Continue Reading

CRS – Can Contractionary Fiscal Policy Be Expansionary?

Can Contractionary Fiscal Policy Be Expansionary? Jane G. Gravelle Senior Specialist in Economic Policy and Thomas L. Hungerford, Specialist in Public Finance. January 11, 2013 “Just as economists generally consider spending cuts to be contractionary in the short run in an underemployed economy, they believe that deficits can be harmful in the long run by… Continue Reading

The Increase in Unemployment Since 2007: Is It Cyclical or Structural?

The Increase in Unemployment Since 2007: Is It Cyclical or Structural? Linda Levine, Specialist in Labor Economics. January 24, 2013 “The unemployment rate greatly increased after the onset of the latest recession in December 2007, when it measured 5.0%. The rate peaked at 10.0% in October 2009, four months after the recession’s official end in… Continue Reading

The Federal Prison Population Buildup: Overview, Policy Changes, Issues, and Options

CRS – The Federal Prison Population Buildup: Overview, Policy Changes, Issues, and Options. Nathan James, Analyst in Crime Policy. January 22, 2013 “Since the early 1980s, there has been a historically unprecedented increase in the federal prison population. Some of the growth is attributable to changes in federal criminal justice policy during the previous three… Continue Reading