The Work, Family, and Equity Index: How Does the United States Measure Up As part of the Project on Global Working Families, with the support of the Ford Foundation, the Work, Family, and Equity Index has been developed to measure governmental performance around the world in meeting the ...
Gordon H. Hanson is the Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy and Academic Dean for Strategy and Engagement at Harvard Kennedy School. He is best known for his research on the labor market consequences of globalization,...
BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese leader Xi Jinping has sounded the clarion call for reform during the country's annual key political season, dispelling concerns about whether China's reform is "stagnating," or its economy is "losing steam." "We must plan major moves to deepen reform ...
In the United States, the Department of Justice, the State Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service and the Drug Enforcement Agency all have divisions investigating money laundering and the underlying financial structures that make it work. State and local police ...
46. What are big houses promoted to be in the United States? A) A luxury for the homeless. B) A reward for industriousness. C) An abundant source of comforts. D) An absolute necessity for happiness. 47. What is ...
It should not be surprising that this period has been a time of rising stock market prices, especially in the United States. The world’s economic problem is that it no longer has the tailwind of falling long-term interest rates. Instead, rising long-term interest rates are becoming a ...
The literature on the effectiveness of the United States unemployment insurance (UI) system does not simultaneously address the heterogeneity of the U.S. population and its workplace and consequently may not accurately portray the UI system. In this thesis, I provide the first analysis of the U...
The United States is an example of a market economy. It has a central bank, the Federal Reserve, that attempts to influence the overall direction of the economy. It has a Congress that can pass legislation to boost economic activity or protect consumers. But the main driver of the economy ...
Investment sectors are important because they help measure how well an economy is performing based on the financial performance of the corporations within that sector. The list below does not represent an exhaustive list, but here are some examples of investment sectors: ...
In the United States, the first U.S. stock exchange was thePhiladelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX), founded in 1790, which still exists today.3The more famousNew York Stock Exchange(NYSE) dates back to 1792, when 24 brokers signed theButtonwood Agreement, establishing rules for trading securities....