Gallup: “Making time for regular trips or vacations with family and friends is linked to higher overall well-being. Americans who say they take regular trips have significantly higher well-being than those who say they do not, as measured by Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index scores, and this difference persists across all income groups. In fact, those who earn less than $24,000 annually and say they take regular trips actually have higher well-being (scoring 66.3) than those who earn $120,000 or more but say they don’t regularly make time for vacations (55.1). The link between making regular time for vacations and higher Well-Being Index scores is significant because these scores take into account Americans’ self-reported sense of purpose, social relationships, financial security, connection to community, and physical health. Previous Gallup research shows that an individual’s Well-Being Index score strongly relates to important health outcomes such as healthcare utilization, life expectancy, new onset disease burden, and change in obesity status.”
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Daily Archives: December 30, 2014
Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2014: Twenty-Eighth Annual Survey
Symeonides, Symeon C., Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2014: Twenty-Eighth Annual Survey (December 31, 2014). American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 63, No. 2, 2015. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2543744 “This is the Twenty-Eighth Annual Survey of American choice-of-law cases. It was written at the request of the Association of American Law… Continue Reading
Renewable Energy Review: Finance Mechanisms
Ernst and Young Editors: “Developers, manufacturers, investors and other renewable energy industry stakeholders need updates on the latest and greatest finance mechanisms available today. Since 2003, global consultancy Ernst & Young has released its Country Attractiveness Indices, which ranks global renewable energy markets by analyzing investment strategies and resource availability. The indices are updated on a… Continue Reading
Before The Internet, Librarians Would ‘Answer Everything’ – And Still Do
Via NPR – “Before Google there was — that paragon of accuracy and calm — the librarian. The New York Public Library recently came upon a box of questions posed to the library from the 1940s to the ’80s — a time capsule from an era when humans consulted other humans for answers to their daily… Continue Reading
Mortgage Securitization Discrimination
Beverly Adkins et al. v Morgan Stanley “The National Consumer Law Center is co-counsel for African American plaintiffs in a prospective class action lawsuit brought against Morgan Stanley. The lawsuit claims that the Defendant violated federal civil rights laws, the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act as well as state laws by… Continue Reading
The Enforcers & the Great Recession
Totten, Mark, The Enforcers & the Great Recession (December 7, 2014). Cardozo Law Review, Forthcoming. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2535109 “No one played a more vital role responding to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression than a small band of state attorneys general (AGs). Yet this story has never been told nor… Continue Reading
SEC Issues Annual Staff Reports on Credit Rating Agencies
[December 23, 2014] “the Securities and Exchange Commission issued its annual staff report on the findings of examinations of credit rating agencies registered as nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (NRSROs) and submitted a separate report on NRSROs to Congress. “These reports provide the most current and comprehensive picture of the credit rating industry,” said SEC Chair… Continue Reading
Technology’s Impact on Workers
“The internet and cell phones have infiltrated every cranny of American workplaces, and digital technology has transformed vast numbers of American jobs. Work done in the most sophisticated scientific enterprises, entirely new technology businesses, the extensive array of knowledge and media endeavors, the places where crops are grown, the factory floor, and even mom-and-pop stores… Continue Reading
