Five Years After the Crash: What Americans Think about Wall Street, Banks, Business, and Free Enterprise “examines public opinion in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 crash and in the years since. How have attitudes changed toward America’s financial system? By comparing hundreds of survey questions from major pollsters, we provide an informative account of… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Treasury – The Financial Crisis Five Years Later
The Financial Crisis Five Years Later: Response, Reform, and Progress In Charts, U.S. Department of the Treasury, September 2013 “In the fall of 2008, our economy faced challenges on a scale not seen since the Great Depression. The crisis was caused by many factors. Among them were an unsustainable housing boom fueled in part by… Continue Reading
Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in U.S.
Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (Updated with 2012 preliminary estimates). Emmanuel Saez • September 3, 2013 “What’s new for recent years? 2009-2012: Uneven recovery from the Great Recession From 2009 to 2012, average real income per family grew modestly by 6.0%. Most of the gains happened in the… Continue Reading
EPA Web Tool Expands Access to Scientific, Regulatory Information on Chemicals
“To improve chemical safety and provide more streamlined access to information on chemicals, EPA has built and is populating a new database. This new database, named ChemView, greatly improves access to health and safety data on chemicals regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). It contains information EPA receives and develops about chemicals including… Continue Reading
Tenure of American Workers
Steven F. Hipple and Emy Sok – BLS: “Information on employee tenure – the length of time that workers have been with their current employer – may not grab headlines or get mentioned in social media as frequently as other measures of the labor market, such as employment growth, the unemployment rate, or earnings trends.… Continue Reading
GPO Releases Congressional Member Guide App
“The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has released the Mobile Member Guide app for the 113th Congress. The mobile Web app provides the public with quick, easy access to information on Members of the 113th Congress; the features include their picture, party affiliation, hometown, home state, and length of service. The app allows users to… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Community Colleges, Education Research, FAA Facilities, Federal Judgeships, FOIA, NARA
COMMUNITY COLLEGES – New Federal Research Center May Enhance Current Understanding of Developmental Education – GAO-13-656, Sep 10, 2013 EDUCATION RESEARCH – Preliminary Observations on the Institute of Education Sciences’ Research and Evaluation Efforts – GAO-13-852T, Sep 10, 2013 FAA FACILITIES – Improved Condition Assessment Methods Could Better Inform Maintenance Decisions and Capital- Planning Efforts – GAO-13-757, Sep 10, 2013 FEDERAL JUDGESHIPS – The General… Continue Reading
Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis
“Data mining of massive data sets is transforming the way we think about crisis response, marketing, entertainment, cybersecurity and national intelligence. Collections of documents, images, videos, and networks are being thought of not merely as bit strings to be stored, indexed, and retrieved, but as potential sources of discovery and knowledge, requiring sophisticated analysis techniques… Continue Reading
Factoryless Goods Producers in the US
Factoryless Goods Producers in the US. Andrew B. Bernard and Teresa C. Fort. NBER Working Paper No. 19396. August 2013 “This paper documents the extent and characteristics of plants and firms in the US that are outside the manufacturing sector according to official government statistics but nonetheless are heavily involved in activities related to the… Continue Reading
Retirement Plan Participation
Retirement Plan Participation: Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Data, 2012, by Craig Copeland, Ph.D., EBRI “The latest SIPP data from the U.S. Census Bureau show 61 percent of all workers over age 16 had an employer that sponsored a pension or retirement plan for any of its employees in 2012, up from 59… Continue Reading
Analysis of Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria
Human Rights Watch: “This 22-page report documents two alleged chemical weapons attacks on the opposition-controlled suburbs of Eastern and Western Ghouta, located 16 kilometers apart, in the early hours of August 21, 2013. Human Rights Watch analyzed witness accounts of the rocket attacks, information on the likely source of the attacks, the physical remnants of… Continue Reading
Government Could Hit Debt Ceiling in Mid-October
“An analysis released today by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) finds that the federal government will be unable to meet all of its spending obligations as early as mid-October, unless the debt ceiling is raised. BPC estimates that the federal government will exhaust its borrowing authority and no longer have sufficient funds to pay all… Continue Reading
