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a whole Employment is higher than in any previous year in history except 1948 and the most recent data show an increase in employment of nearly 1 000 000 in June over May principally in agriculture 2 About...public works and of Federal loans the location and nature of national defense establish ments and strategic industries and the nature and level of Federal economic subsidy payments The American Federation...years 1919 38 Monthly data beginning with January 1939 may be obtained upon request I Data for the trade and service divisions beginning with January 1947 are not comparable with data shown for earlier years...

study of the impact of internation al trade in services such as banking insurance communications and data processing and of the barriers to such trade However we could not persuade other countries to undertake...economic statistics should restore adequate funding for crucial economic data A full review of Fiscal Year 1984 funding for GNP source data should be undertaken Cooperation and a Common Purpose 88 Recommendation...indebtedness of some of the countries whose problems were made public in 1982 In an effort to develop better data the Interagency Country Ex posure Review Committee of the three U S bank regulatory agen cies has...

health insurance or a retirement plan according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research Today s data on health insurance coverage are a sobering re minder of the impact of our broken system 46 3 million...Insurance premiums charged to employers increased by more than 100 percent between 2000 and 2008 The 2008 data reflect the first year of the Bush recession but the legacy of his Administration s failed economic...ranks of uninsured so far this year The time for comprehensive health insurance reform is now As the data show our Nation s families simply cannot afford to wait any longer America s Affordable Health Choices...

severely than ever More and more Americans remain unemployed for longer and longer stretches Today s data tell us that the number of long term unemployed continues to climb Five million Americans have been...BLS is an independent national statistical agency that col lects processes and analyzes essential data and disseminates it to the American public the U S Congress and other federal agencies Dr Hall also...the class of people for example that are part time for economic reasons We collect those but that data is not part of the unemployment rate and then we have a whole category of discouraged workers the...

who wants to examine those returns because we all know if you put 10 accountants in a room with tax data they re going to come up with 10 different figures And as a consequence no one can sign their name...tax system gives firms a strong incentive to move their profits and activities over seas Now these data should provide food for thought for those who would contend that the reduction in double taxation...right now Vice Chairman Brady Can I ask Dr Hassett before we move on on the tax burden The empirical data which you cite repeat edly in your testimony suggests that additional investments typi cally result...

The data collected by our statistical agencies are vital to informing policy debates and evalu ating the effectiveness of those policies we put into place As we debate health care reform Census data tells...policymakers on this com mittee and at all levels of government rely on the data produced by the Census Bureau as we weigh policy decisions The data en ables us to evaluate whether or not a policy is achieving the...But statistical agencies like the Census Bureau should be absent political pres sures so that the data remains unbiased and objective Today we will hear from former Census Directors who combined have over...

AND VARIATIONS IN NONAGIUCULTUuAL SNl lioYMEX r SOUR1tCE AND NATURE OF DATA The liureall of labor Statistics is the inlio sOl c of data Oil changes ill ti level of elmploymenl in the Various nontilgrieulurtal...t lotv l labor d t li it in 111 it oS lal ml yme n trails Si e iv APPENDIX A SELECTED STATIBTICAL DATA ON EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT T S rf nDS TABLE l Stinliary of labor force estimates 3fa and June...1947 770 3111 8 87 8 1 527 3 159 5 9 4 17 4 5 9 7 0 3 4 7 81 12 4 24 2 9 8 8 8 5 6 8 3 I Comparable data not available because of change from SSB to SIC industry definition ARM EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT...

exhaust the list of potential statistical tools The items in this report simply indicate what additional data would contribute significantly to economic analysis After each study listed will be found a statement...from business establish ments we do not now know what the most economical means of ob taining the data would be and we have indicated the need for funds to develop an adequate program The nature of this...supply it and to devise a reporting program consistent with industry accounting practices so that the data might be obtained most efficiently and with the least possible burden With regard to the magnitude...

out of an average per capita outlay of 1 142 according to Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce data This may be compared with 1939 when food expenditures were less than 24 percent of total con sumption...wars for all items combined and the major categories separately I It should be noted that the summary data of prices and indexes presented above are on a national basis covering 56 cities For individual cities...wholesale prices of farm products and foods which in turn rose higher than retail food prices The data in table V show this clearly TABLE V Food products Indexes of prices at seseral levels of marketing...

surrounding the so called Buffett rule But an analysis by my Joint Economic Committee staff of IRS taxpayer data prove President Obama s campaign assertions to be untrue high income Americans on average pay income...tax rate for the companies in their study was 17 5 percent Is anyone on the panel familiar with this data Give me your as sessment of those differentials Mr Hanlon Sure I can jump in I mean Citizens for Tax...individuals And that keeps them in that position It is very bad In terms of equity here is what the data of Dr Kotlikoff showed when he looked at 42 family sets and ran his simulation model He said that...