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Update of one of a series of reports on the state of the budget and the economy that is issued each year; the report makes no recommendations. Contents: (1) The Budget Outlook; (2) The Economic Outlook; (3) Changes in Baseline Since March 2009; (4) The Government¿s Actions in Support of the Housing and Financial Markets. Tables and graphs.
One of a series of reports on the state of the budget and the economy that is issued each year; the report makes no recommendations. Contents: The Budget Outlook; The Economic Outlook; The Spending Outlook; The Revenue Outlook; Changes in the Baseline Since August 2007; Trust Funds and Measures of Debt; How Changes in Economic Assumptions Can Affect Budget Projections; The Treatment of Federal Receipts and Expenditures in the National Income and Product Accounts; Economic Projections for 2008 to 2018; Historical Budget Data; Contributors to the Revenue and Spending Projections; Glossary. Charts and tables.
A biography of University of Miami baseball coach Ron Fraser, who coached the Hurricanes from 1963 to 1992 and was one of college baseball's greatest promoters and most successful and influential coaches in history, helping to bring the game into national prominence.
This work categorizes and comprehensively analyzes all of the practical aspects of international labour regulation for researchers and students of human resource management (HRM). It offers realistic policy guidelines for non-academic HRM practitioners, non governmental organizations (NGOs), trade unions and governments. The book focuses primarily upon the issues, organizations and individuals in the US that influence labour regulation - NAFTA, the US GSP programme, trade unions, activists and "grass roots" movements. Major attention is also given to corresponding European Union and International Labour Organisation issues, organizations and individuals.
In 1927, Beatrice Cannady succeeded in removing racist language from the Oregon Constitution. During World War II, Rowena Moore fought for the right of black women to work in Omaha’s meat packinghouses. In 1942, Thelma Paige used the courts to equalize the salaries of black and white schoolteachers across Texas. In 1950 Lucinda Todd of Topeka laid the groundwork for the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. These actions—including sit-ins long before the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960—occurred well beyond the borders of the American South and East, regions most known as the home of the civil rights movement. By considering social justice efforts in western cities and...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) examines many developments that could have short- or longer-term consequences for the budget and the economy. In coming decades, one such development is expected to be a slower rate of growth of the labor force relative to its average over the past few decades. That slowdown is anticipated to occur primarily because of the aging and retirement of large numbers of baby boomers and because women's participation in the labor force has leveled off since the late 1990s after having risen substantially for the preceding three decades. This report describes CBO's methods for projecting such trends through 2021. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
A groundbreaking study of the journalism startups that are solving the local news crisis one community at a time A must-read for activists, entrepreneurs, and journalists who want to start local news outlets in their communities Local news is essential to democracy. Meaningful participation in civic life is impossible without it. However, local news is in crisis. According to one widely cited study, some 2,500 newspapers have closed over the last generation. And it is often marginalized communities of color who have been left without the day-to-day journalism they need to govern themselves in a democracy. Veteran journalists Ellen Clegg and Dan Kennedy cut through the pessimism surrounding t...