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Compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CPI is used to
index Social Security payments and many other federal programs, as
well as to adjust tax brackets. Today, the accuracy of the CPI is
being hotly debated, particularly in light of the Boskin Commission
report that concluded in December 1996 that the CPI overstates
inflation by 1.1%. If accepted and applied in the formulation of
economic policy, the report would have major implications for
balancing the federal budget. It would have a direct impact on the
lives of Americans who are beneficiaries of government programs as
well as on everyone who pays taxes. In this book, Dean Baker
introduces and explains the significance of the debate, presents
the full text of the Boskin Commission report and finally discusses
in a far-reaching and insightful analysis both the Commission's
research methodology and its conclusions.
Compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CPI is used to
index Social Security payments and many other federal programs, as
well as to adjust tax brackets. Today, the accuracy of the CPI is
being hotly debated, particularly in light of the Boskin Commission
report that concluded in December 1996 that the CPI overstates
inflation by 1.1%. If accepted and applied in the formulation of
economic policy, the report would have major implications for
balancing the federal budget. It would have a direct impact on the
lives of Americans who are beneficiaries of government programs as
well as on everyone who pays taxes. In this book, Dean Baker
introduces and explains the significance of the debate, presents
the full text of the Boskin Commission report and finally discusses
in a far-reaching and insightful analysis both the Commission's
research methodology and its conclusions.
Despite the significant benefits that suppliers and customers can
realize through collaboration on projects, programs or operational
improvement initiatives, current literature barely discusses
project management beyond the scope of a single company. This
unique book fills this void with its practical straight forward
description of the processes and techniques for creating and
managing multi-company project organizations, emphasizing
cross-company cooperation and the use of customer-supplier
collaboration to maximize project, program or operational results.
Multi-Company Project Management is intended to serve as a valuable
desk reference for executives with responsibility for strategic
projects or operations, as well as a practical ""how to"" guide for
project managers and sponsors, project personnel, and operations
staff responsible for leading and implementing improvement efforts.
While most people intuitively know that low unemployment is
important to job seekers, they may not realize that high levels of
employment actually would make an enormous difference in the lives
of large segments of the workforce who already have jobs.
Particularly in an era of historically high wage and income
inequality, many in the workforce depend on full employment labor
markets, and the bargaining power it provides, to secure a fair
share of the economy's growth. For the bottom third or even half of
the wage distribution, high levels of employment are a necessary
condition for improving wages, higher incomes, and better working
conditions. This book is a follow-up to a book written a decade ago
by the authors, The Benefits of Full Employment (Economic Policy
Institute, 2003). It builds on the evidence presented in that book,
showing that real wage growth for workers in the bottom half of the
income scale is highly dependent on the overall rate of
unemployment. In the late 1990s, when the United States saw its
first sustained period of low unemployment in more than a quarter
century, workers at the middle and bottom of the wage distribution
were able to secure substantial gains in real wages. When
unemployment rose in the 2001 recession, and again following the
collapse of the housing bubble, most workers no longer had the
bargaining power to share in the benefits of growth. The book also
documents another critical yet often overlooked side effect of full
employment: improved fiscal conditions (without mindless budget
policies like the current sequestration). Finally, in this volume,
unlike the earlier one, the authors present a broad set of policies
designed to boost growth and get the unemployment rate down to a
level where far more workers have a fighting chance of getting
ahead.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ The Bible In Graded Story: For Use In Week-day Schools Of
Religion, Church Vacation Day Schools And In Home Training ...;
Volume 3 Of The Bible In Graded Story: For Use In Week-day Schools
Of Religion, Church Vacation Day Schools And In Home Training;
Clara Belle Baker; Abingdon Religious Education Texts Edna Dean
Baker, Clara Belle Baker The Abingdon press, 1922 Bible stories,
English
Progressives need a fundamentally new approach to politics. They
have been losing not just because conservatives have so much more
money and power, but also because they have accepted the
conservatives' framing of political debates. They have accepted a
framing where conservatives want market outcomes whereas liberals
want the government to intervene to bring about outcomes that they
consider fair. This puts liberals in the position of seeming to
want to tax the winners to help the losers. This "loser liberalism"
is bad policy and horrible politics. Progressives would be better
off fighting battles over the structure of markets so that they
don't redistribute income upward. This book describes some of the
key areas where progressives can focus their efforts in
restructuring the market so that more income flows to the bulk of
the working population rather than just a small elite.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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