This new Poll, to be conducted jointly with Left Right Research, a Long Island based marketing research concern, will focus on how well Americans understand money, financial systems and financial math.
Fargo, N.D., is rated first and Bismarck, N.D., second in the Milken Institute Best Performing Cities report for 2010 in the category of small cities.
Job prospects are bleak for anyone with a criminal record in California, and the current economic downturn makes it even tougher. But a new report offers ways to reverse that trend with recommendations from employers, unions, police, government officials, and academics.
After spending several months sending ambiguous and lugubrious signals, the Leading Index for Indiana (LII) made progress by increasing 0.5 percent in October.
Community development pioneer Michael Swack is available to discuss the possible collapse of India’s $5 billion private microfinance industry – the largest microfinance system in the world – as well as the underlying problems with microfinancing worldwide.
Privatizing the US mortgage market and eliminating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the best ways to work toward stabilizing the US housing finance system, says UC Berkeley real estate professor and economist Dwight Jaffee.
When customers are allowed to pay what they want for a purchase, knowing a portion of the payment will go to charity, they become rather generous, according to a study by Associate Professor Leif Nelson of the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Nelson says the concept of “shared social responsibility," a term coined by the study’s authors, may provide the sustainability component often lacking in current corporate social responsibility strategies.
The New England economic outlook remains precarious, with the regional economy struggling to continue its recovery if the U.S. economy remains weak. The looming federal and state fiscal crises will make a difficult road to recovery in the region even more difficult, according to Ross Gittell, James R. Carter Professor of Management at the University of New Hampshire.
A Kansas State University professor has found that for outsourcing to be effective, the organization must not rely solely upon contracts but should also establish an informal supplier-buyer relationship. He studied more than 950 businesses globally to collect data.
President Obama's fiscal commission, released proposals to reduce the growth of the national debt this week. Bradley Heim of Indiana University says the plan includes good ideas but may not be politically feasible.
A new paper based on work among poor families in Thailand shows that households who used their existing assets most productively were more successful at pulling themselves out of poverty. Many of the successful households reinvested their money in their small businesses and farms, suggesting that they are well aware of the source of their success.
Presenteeism—defined as "reduced productivity at work due to health conditions"—is increasingly recognized as a contributor to health costs for employers. But more work is needed to develop reliable tools to measure presenteeism and its economic impact, according to a paper in the November Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Workers who agreed to take early retirement were likely to not have considered that option if it hadn't been for pressure at the workplace to do so. This has been revealed in a new study carried out at the University of Haifa that examined the significance of early retirement.
Indiana University economists presenting their annual forecast today (Nov. 4) expect that the current historically weak recovery will continue into 2011, with continued challenges for the national labor market.
Since the Enron scandal, questions have continually been raised about the business sector's ethics and its influence on future business executives. Two Kansas State University business professors recruited nationally and internationally recognized experts in business ethics to address these concerns in a book.
Linda J. Barrington, managing director of the Institute for Compensation Studies at Cornell University’s ILR School, comments on the economic reports released Monday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis and Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A new study from the University of Iowa shows that beginning investors actually earn poorer returns from their investments as they get more experience, and that it takes 24 trades before they’ve learned the ropes.
A political science professor is studying the importance given to social policies by current and former female governors. With 10 female candidates currently running for governor on major party tickets -- a record-tying number, the professor said little is known about female governor's policy initiatives which shape a state.
For stories about the 2010 midterm election, consider the following sources from The Johns Hopkins University.
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Marion Crain, JD, the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law at Washington University In St. Louis, looks at the act’s history and says changes in the American workplace and other factors raise the question of how the NLRA will adapt in the future.
Angel investors committed fewer dollars in more deals in the first half of 2010, with seed and start-up stage investing declining to its lowest level in several years, a trend that soon could impact new ventures and job creation, according to the Angel Market Analysis for the first and second quarters of 2010 released by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.
General intelligence is not enough. Practical intelligence can mean the difference between entrepreneurial success or failure.
Psychological well-being is powerful enough to counteract the pull of socioeconomic status on the long-term health of the disadvantaged, according to a study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Five communities across the state have recently established community foundations, as a result of participating in the MAPPING the Future of Your Community program, a unit of the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs (IIRA) at Western Illinois University.
At time when many charities are creating online videos to showcase their work, a Tufts University team is launching a video contest to recognize nonprofits that help families, and reward aspiring filmmakers.
Advanced Energy Conference, Nov. 8-9 in NYC, to spotlight cutting-edge technologies for clean energy jobs and a growing economy.
Widespread layoffs and other job changes associated with the Great Recession have caused workers to question career-related sacrifices, including time away from family, less leisure time and fewer self-improvement activities.
Recent calls to cut Social Security benefits are grounded in misinformation and misunderstanding, says Merton C. Bernstein, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. “Cutting the program will lead to undiminished deficits, more poverty, less purchasing power, less business income and more unemployment.”
A social policy expert from the University Maryland School of Social Work and the chief organizer of ACORN International call for four steps to be taken to address the housing foreclosure crisis. Available for interviews.
Poverty has grown in America’s suburbs during the recent economic downturn, but poor people in many suburban communities are finding it hard to get the help they need. Poverty rates grew quickly in the suburbs of the largest metropolitan areas during the 2000s, and by 2008, the number of suburban poor exceeded the number of city poor by 1.5 million.
A study of pay inequality among white women by sociologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst finds having children reduces women’s earnings, even for those with comparable qualifications, experience, hours and jobs. While all women suffer this penalty, the lowest-paid women lose the most.
In a study of earnings inequality among white women, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst find that having children reduces women’s earnings, even among workers with comparable qualifications, experience, work hours and jobs. While women at all income levels suffer negative earnings consequences from having children, the lowest-paid women lose the most from motherhood.
In fiscal year 2009, in the midst of the Great Recession, 596 new companies were formed as a result of university research, according to new survey data from the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM).
In the second year of the recession, wives’ contributions to family earnings leapt again, jumping two percentage points from 45 percent in 2008 to 47 percent in 2009. This rise, documented in a new fact sheet from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, marks the largest single-year increase in 15 years.
Although the rise in subprime lending and the ensuing wave of foreclosures was partly a result of market forces that have been well-documented, the foreclosure crisis was also a highly racialized process, according to a study published in the October 2010 issue of the American Sociological Review.
Charles Whitehead, an associate professor at the Cornell School of Law and former senior executive at Salomon Brothers and Citigroup, talks with media about the future of Wall Street and financial regulatory reform.
For a number of years, gas prices in the United States have been fluctuating—at times reaching more than $4—and this fluctuation has significantly affected American’s disposable income. Dinesh Gauri, an assistant professor of marketing in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, recently studied approximately 1,000 households to determine how consumers modify their shopping behaviors when higher gas prices put pressure on their budgets.
A new Iowa State University study of 69 companies found that having a clear strategy is far more valuable than either availability of resources or management support when it comes to perceived supply chain security by managers.
As the U.S. Census Bureau releases its American Community Survey data today, Beth Mattingly, director of research on vulnerable families at the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, is available to discuss the implications of the data on the rate of child poverty.
Indo-Canadians are the second-largest immigrant group in Canada, encompassing one of the largest diasporas living outside India. But, according to one Ryerson researcher, Canada is not fully benefiting from the economic edge offered by Indo-Canadians and other transnational entrepreneurs.
U.S. Reps. Tammy Baldwin and James Sensenbrenner earned national honors Monday in Jefferson, Wis., for their efforts to advance business innovation, university technology transfer and a strong patent system.
Changing demographics are the main cause of today's housing surplus, according to new research by a University of Virginia urban and environmental planning professor. The path to a housing market rebound doesn't lie in new construction, William Lucy found, but in rethinking housing needs based on changing demographics.
Economists have identified a “tipping point” for national debt – the point at which national debt levels begin to have an adverse effect on economic growth. The findings could influence economic policy discussions globally, and will be distributed at the upcoming meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group.
Municipal and county officials, service organizations, researchers, and the general public will be able to freely use a wide array of local and regional data about community well-being, DataPlace™ and the Urban Institute announced today.
A 10-year study on Child Development Accounts (CDAs) has confirmed their viability as a tool for long-term asset building. Beginning as early as birth, CDAs are investment accounts that allow parents and children to accumulate savings for post-secondary education, homeownership or business initiatives.
The façade of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement is so deep that the House of Representatives recently passed legislation that will fail to accomplish its stated purpose – "to debar corporations committing FCPA violations from federal government contracts," says Butler University Business Law Professor Mike Koehler.
American Society of Civil Engineers says new transportation index sends a clear message to congress and the white house.
As business becomes more globalized, U.S. companies are increasingly earning significant amounts of income in foreign countries. The American Jobs Creation Act provided a temporary reduction in the repatriation tax with the intention of motivating firms to bring monies back to the U.S. for domestic investment. But did the firms that were Congress’ intended targets of the American Jobs Creation Act benefit the most? Recent research by Susan Albring, assistant professor of accounting in the Whitman School of Management, examined whether private and public debt constraints faced by a firm influence the firm’s response to the temporary reduction in repatriation taxes.
Current census figures show that one in seven Americans is living below the poverty level, a rate that nears the record poverty levels of 1960. “The latest rise in the poverty rate illustrates how many more Americans are at risk of poverty and economic insecurity in this country," says Mark R. Rank, PhD, poverty expert and the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Economists Krislert Samphantharak of UC San Diego and Robert M. Townsend of MIT have defined a far-reaching framework that may contribute significantly to the meaningful assessment and analysis of the financial lives of the world’s poor.
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