National Women’s Law Center, Closing the Wage Gap: How Raising the Minimum Wage Promotes Fair Pay for Women – “Women working full time, year round typically make only 77 percent of what their male counterparts make – leaving a wage gap of 23 cents on the dollar. One reason for this gap is that women… Continue Reading
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BirdLife Europe releases Annual Report 2012
“BirdLife Europe released its Annual Report for 2012 [May 31, 2013]. It contains an overview of key achievements in the fields of EU policy work, nature conservation and corporate partnership. As a special feature it includes a pull-out centre fold…The report also emphasizes that the EU is racing towards its goal to halt the loss… Continue Reading
NYT and WaPo: How the U.S. Uses Technology to Mine More Data More Quickly
Follow up to related postings, via the New York Times: “Today, a revolution in software technology that allows for the highly automated and instantaneous analysis of enormous volumes of digital information has transformed the N.S.A., turning it into the virtual landlord of the digital assets of Americans and foreigners alike. The new technology has, for… Continue Reading
UK Guardian identifies leak of NSA Surveillance memo, EPIC cites Presidential Policy Directive 20, Atlantic highlights use of metadata
Follow up to previous postings: UK Guardian – Verizon forced to hand over telephone data – full court ruling; EPIC: Sweeping NSA Domestic Surveillance Order Approved Without Any Ties to Foreign Intelligence Collection and EPIC – Congress Begins Investigation of NSA Domestic Surveillance Program see: Via EPIC: “Presidential Policy Directive 20 orders the creation of… Continue Reading
Notable Government Documents of 2012: Looking Back, Moving Ahead
Notable Government Documents of 2012 (Federal, State and Local) – determined by the ALA/GODORT PANEL “While the 2012 presidential campaign raged, and the brink of the fiscal cliff loomed large, government information continued to be disseminated unabated. One year ago, there was a great hue and cry because the 2012 edition of the Statistical Abstract… Continue Reading
Paper – News-Driven Return Reversals: Liquidity Provision Ahead of Earnings News
News-Driven Return Reversals: Liquidity Provision Ahead of Earnings News – Eric C. So, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Sloan School of Management; Sean Wang, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. June 7, 2013 “This study documents a six-fold increase in short-term return reversals during earnings announcements relative to non-announcement periods. Following prior research,… Continue Reading
Consistent regulatory implementation to keep markets integrated
Consistent regulatory implementation to keep markets integrated – Remarks by Jaime Caruana, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, for the panel discussion on “Regulatory landscapes” at the 2013 International Monetary Conference, Shanghai, 3 June 2013. Continue Reading
The Hamilton Project – Jobs Gap Chart
“Each month, The Hamilton Project examines the “jobs gap,” which is the number of jobs that the U.S. economy needs to create in order to return to pre-recession employment levels while also absorbing the people who enter the labor force each month. This chart shows how the jobs gap has evolved since the start of… Continue Reading
EFF – Gov’t Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Program Needs to Stay Secret
News release: “In a rare public filing in the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the Justice Department today urged continued secrecy for a 2011 FISC opinion that found the National Security Agency’s surveillance under the FISA Amendments Act to be unconstitutional. Significantly, the surveillance at issue was carried out under the same controversial legal… Continue Reading
World Bank Annual Report 2012
“This Annual Report, which covers the period from July 1, 2011, to June 30, 2012, has been prepared by the Executive Directors of both the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA)—collectively known as the World Bank—in accordance with the respective bylaws of the two institutions.” Continue Reading
New York Times on the Government Data Surveillance Program
New York Times on-going reporting: Obama Calls Surveillance Programs Legal and Limited (June 8, 2013) In U.S., News of Surveillance Effort Is Met With Some Concern but Little Surprise (June 8, 2013) Administration Says Mining of Data Is Crucial to Fight Terror (June 8, 2013) News of U.S. Surveillance Draws Anger of Activists and Militants… Continue Reading
LSE Cities launches new interactive website to show how financial crisis has affected European cities
“London School of Economics and Political Science Cities (LSE Cities) has launched a new free online resource, supported by the Higher Education Innovation Fund, which shows the impact of economic recession and recovery in over 150 of Europe’s largest metropolitan areas. Drawing on forecasting data previously unavailable to the public, the European Metromonitor features an… Continue Reading
