“It is a challenging time for federal agencies, and effective leadership is a necessity for guiding employees through the uncertainty. Federal employee attitudes toward their leadership are a major influence on job satisfaction and commitment and also have a significant impact on performance. How satisfied are federal employees with their agency leadership? In the Partnership… Continue Reading
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Best Places to Work Snapshot: Most Innovative Agencies
“In this uncertain environment, many federal employees are facing the same challenge: do more with less and do it better. The Partnership and Deloitte’s new Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® analysis found that the vast majority of federal workers want to be innovative and are looking for ways to perform their jobs… Continue Reading
Best Places to Work Snapshot: Satisfaction with Performance-Based Rewards and Advancement
“In the current climate of pay freezes, budget reductions and furloughs, it’s become more challenging and more important for federal leaders to find ways to reward and recognize high performing employees. Unfortunately, only four out of 10 federal workers believe they will be rewarded or promoted for doing good work, according to a new Best… Continue Reading
The Financial Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan: How Wartime Spending Decisions Will Constrain Future National Security Budgets
The Financial Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan: How Wartime Spending Decisions Will Constrain Future National Security Budgets – Linda Bilmes Harvard University – Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) March 26, 2013 “The Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, taken together, will be the most expensive wars in US history – totaling somewhere between $4 to $6 trillion. This… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
Federal Reserve Board and Federal Open Market Committee release economic projections from the June 18-19 FOMC meeting: “Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in May suggests that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace. Labor market conditions have shown further improvement in recent months, on balance, but the unemployment rate… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Airline Mergers, Defense Contractors, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, CMS, Rail Safety, Transporation Worker ID Safety
Airline Mergers – Issues Raised by the Proposed Merger of American Airlines and US Airways, GAO-13-403T, Jun 19, 2013 Defense Contractors – Information on the Impact of Reducing the Cap on Employee Compensation Costs, GAO-13-566, Jun 19, 2013 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter -Restructuring Has Improved the Program, but Affordability Challenges and Other Risks Remain, GAO-13-690T, Jun 19, 2013 Patient… Continue Reading
CBO – Effects of a Carbon Tax on the Economy and the Environment
Effects of a Carbon Tax on the Economy and the Environment: “Lawmakers could increase federal revenues and encourage reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) by establishing a carbon tax, which would either tax those emissions directly or tax fuels that release CO2 when they are burned (fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural… Continue Reading
World Bank 2013. From double-dip recession to fragile recovery.
From double-dip recession to fragile recovery: “After the double-dip recession, as a group the six South East European countries (SEE6)- Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia-are now making a fragile recovery. Last year the recession in the Eurozone had adverse impact on external demand and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in SEE6… Continue Reading
NPR Series on Big Data
What Big Data Means For Big Cities, by Adam Frank: “Cities are created human environments. They are ecosystems of energy and matter imagined into existence through human effort. Because cities are essentially ideas transformed into action, they are creatures of information and a Big Data problem. By breathing in the torrents of data cities generate… Continue Reading
NASA – Green: Vegetation on Our Planet
“Although 75% of the planet is a relatively unchanging ocean of blue, the remaining 25% of Earth’s surface is a dynamic green. Data from the NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite is able to detect these subtle differences in greenness. The resources on this page highlight our ever-changing planet, using highly detailed vegetation index data from the… Continue Reading
Council on Foreign Relations Backgrounder – U.S. Domestic Surveillance
“Two NSA surveillance programs have been exposed in press reports in June 2013. First, a Guardian report disclosed a classified FISC court order instructing Verizon, one of the largest U.S. telecommunications firms, to hand over phone records of millions of Americans to the NSA. Amid criticism from civil rights groups, the Obama administration defended the… Continue Reading
Conference on financial stability, macroprudential policy and exchange rates
4th BIS Consultative Council for the Americas conference on Financial stability, macroprudential policy and exchange rates” (papers and presentations). A Scientific Committee, led by Stephen G Cecchetti, and comprising CCA central bank heads of research, selected papers on the following topics: Issues in financial stability; Macroprudential and related policies; Exchange rates and monetary policy…Conference agenda… Continue Reading
