USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: Fiscal Year 2010, August 2013 “The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps low-income individuals purchase food so that they can obtain a nutritious diet. One important measure of the program’s performance is its ability to reach its target population, as indicated by the proportion of people eligible for benefits under federal income and asset rules… Continue Reading
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Sovereign Default Risk and Banks in a Monetary Union
Sovereign Default Risk and Banks in a Monetary Union, Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago – Department of Economics. August 12, 2013 Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics Working Paper No. 2013-002 “This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank guarantees in a monetary union. I… Continue Reading
Intergenerational Justice in Aging Societies
Vanhuysse, Pieter, Intergenerational Justice in Aging Societies: A Cross-National Comparison of 29 OECD Countries (April 20, 2013). Available at SSRN “I present the Intergenerational Justice Index (IJI) – a simple four-dimensional indicator developed with the Bertelsmann Stiftung in order to compare intergenerational justice in practice across 29 OECD member states. The unit of analysis is… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Rebooting Legal Research in a Digital Age
Via LLRX.com – Rebooting Legal Research in a Digital Age: Steven A. Lastres writes that research has always been core to the practice of law. However, the results of a recent survey Steven has authored identified a “New Normal” in today’s business climate that has a profound effect in the delivery of legal services and… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Student Research Resources on the Internet
Via LLRX.com – Student Research Resources on the Internet: Marcus P. Zillman’s new guide is a comprehensive pathfinder that identifies reliable, actionable and high value research resources and sources on the Internet that will provide students with key benchmarks for their studies. Continue Reading
New on LLRX – A User Guide to the Marrakesh Treaty
Via LLRX.com – A User Guide to the Marrakesh Treaty: Jonathan Band provides a comprehensive guide to the recent international adoption of the “Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled.” The Treaty is intended to promote the making and distribution of copies of… Continue Reading
Effects of Budget Cuts on Federal Statistics Program
Debt, Damned Debt, and Statistics: The Effects of Budget Cuts on Federal Statistics Program Dan Coyle, ProQuest. June 2013 Statistical Programs Affected by Sequestration: Census Bureau, BLS, USDA Continue Reading
The Agenda for Generational Equity: The Framework
“The Agenda for Generational Equity is a conversation starter. We cannot afford to have young Americans —“Millennials”— on the sidelines for critical debates about our nation’s future. Though no exact definition exists, we, the Millennials, are the generation of young Americans born between the early 1980s and early 2000s. We are the generation that came… Continue Reading
Too Big to Fail: The Path to a Solution
Too Big to Fail: The Path to a Solution – A Report of the Failure Resolution Task Force of the Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative of the Bipartisan Policy Center, May 2013 “This report concludes that the FDIC’s SPOE [single-point-of- entry] recapitalization strategy, whether carried out under OLA or the Bankruptcy Code, should succeed in solving a critical… Continue Reading
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Natural Resource Damage Assessment Under the Oil Pollution Act
CRS – The 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Natural Resource Damage Assessment Under the Oil Pollution Act. Adam Vann, Legislative Attorney; Robert Meltz, Legislative Attorney. July 24, 2013 “The estimated 4.1 million barrels of oil released during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill is considered to be the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry… Continue Reading
Overview of Federal Criminal Cases Fiscal Year 2012
United States Sentencing Commission – Glenn R. Schmitt, Jennifer Dukes – Office of Research and Data. “This publication presents a broad overview of federal sentencing data for fiscal year 2012. It provides a brief, easy-to-use reference on the types of criminal cases handled by federal courts and the punishments imposed on offenders convicted in those cases. (July 2013)” “The… Continue Reading
AG Holder Calls for Major Criminal Law Reform
Attorney General Eric Holder Delivers Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates, August 12, 2013: “Even as most crime rates decline, we need to examine new law enforcement strategies – and better allocate resources – to keep pace with today’s continuing threats as violence spikes in some of our… Continue Reading
