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unfortunately less than one percent during the first half of 2011 This week we have received additional data that suggest that the pace of the recovery is decelerating Months ago we were saying it was moving...especially in the next year because one of the small glimmers of hope in some of this bad economic and jobs data has been manufacturing Since the end of 2009 manufacturing has added 290 000 jobs a little bit of...national statistical agency that collects processes ana lyzes and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public the U S Congress other Federal agencies state and local governments business...

capture those same economic benefits We have research and development which is comparable to seis mic data and drilling and we have the same considerations with respect to supply chain inventory management...competitive than it has ever been depending upon the sector So it is a really really good topic The data that you all went through in your testimony I m not going to go over that again it was great It is...15 per cent women So that is a concerning trend One of the things that has always struck me is some data that I saw that said that when young boys and girls age 5 or 6 are polled about what they want to...

from the crisis has been much less robust than we had hoped Recent revisions of government economic data show that the recession was even deep er and the recovery even weaker than previously estimated In...second half of the year seems likely to be more rapid than in the first half However the incoming data suggest that other more persistent factors also continue to restrain the pace of recovery Consequently...from the crisis has been much less robust than we had hoped Recent revisions of government economic data show the recession as having been even deeper and the recovery weaker than previously estimated in...

dynamic components of our economy But what happens if we do not move forward Dr Kugler So we know from data just from last month that about 17 percent of employers are unable to fill their vacancies 36 percent...documentation or with documentation stealing our jobs And the data that I have seen does not necessarily suggest that that is true The data that I have seen suggests that the skills that normally come into...

Members of the Committee thank you for the opportunity to discuss the employment and unemployment data that we released this morning Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 192 000 in March and the unemployment...help that whatever you think Commissioner Groshen Sure So generally speaking the BLS does not have data about the specific skills required for job vacan cies that employers are trying to fill However we...mine are more kind of direct questions as opposed to ad vice is trying to disaggregate some of this data Do you compile any analysis of how jobs break down between low middle and high skilled in terms of...

ulations reducing overlap or even conflicting rules and ensuring that regulations are based on good data we can ease the burdens placed on manufacturers and other businesses alike New regulations are often...they are unnecessarily complex and dupli cative Their critical inputs scientific and other technical data are sometimes unreliable and fail to account for significant uncer tainties Regulations are allowed...know before the CBO was established only the President had a ready source of budgetary and economic data and analysis The entire budget process has benefited from CBO s existence and its independence Budgetary...

the meat packing petroleum steel textile and automobile industries 175 Appendix C Sales and profit data of selected American corporations 189 Appendix D Financial tables of individual companies 197 Appendix...average for 1941 45 Table V Summary of financial and operating data of 30 oil companies for the years 1934 47 Table VI Selected financial data of 30 oil companies adjusted for changes in value of dollar years...packing APPENDIX D Table I Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp and subsidiaries financial and statistical data Table II American Woolen Co Inc Table III Armour Co net profit ratios Table IV Armour Co segregation...

labor force The Bureau is contemplating a revision of the index weights based on current expenditure data within the next several years QUALITIES OF GOODS PRICED One of the problems the Bureau has had to...by some wage earners and lower salaried clerical workers surveyed in 1934 36 are excluded Available data indicate that in times of shortages and inflation the lower the quality the greater is the percentage...of commodities sold or services rendered and location and clientele To maintain the accuracy of the data used in the Index the Bureau revises this reporter sample when important changes occur Retail food...

00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 C DOCS 71033 TXT DPROCT 8 ly no longer the case If you look at OECD data total Federal State local spending in the United States now is 41 percent of GDP That is only 4 percent...providing the investment cap ital Frankly that is not going to solve our problem If you look at the data for the last 10 years the increase in our deficit is mostly attributable to an increase in spending...spending cuts but we can get new revenue by making the economy grow Frankly if you look at 20 year data you can raise the taxes as much as you want but the revenue is going to be about 20 percent of our...

In 1980 industry funded R D surpassed federal R D funding and by 2008 the most recent comparative data available the gap had grown substantially with industry spending a little more than 267 billion on...basic R D That s not the job of the venture capitalist The job of the venture capitalist is to take data and research that s been done from the basic research and apply it and help companies to grow in that...Well I understand the difficulties in extending patent life from a statutory standpoint but I think data exclusivity time periods regulatory exclusivity perhaps would be more manageable And I know people...