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Rainbow Warriors defeat Northern Arizona in Bracketbuster matchupUPDATED 10:45 PM HST Feb 23, 2013
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It's no secret that I use my credit card for as much spending as possible — the spending I would do whether using cash or credit — thanks to the availability of cash back rebates. The spending plan for my upcoming vacation is for me to put just about all of our vacation expenses on the credit card and for my girlfriend to chip in half when the bill comes due. We tend to split things fairly evenly most of the time.
But she is also planning to bring cash to the tune of $300. I might bring $100 but I don't see too much reason to bring more than that. Carrying around so much cash seems like asking for trouble to me.
How much cash do you take on vacation?
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Case Study | September 7, 2012
Solar Powered Surveillance And Security At Georgia Southern UniversitySource: MicroPower Technologies
The Customer
Nestled in Statesboro, Ga., Georgia Southern University has been advancing the educational and economic aspirations of Georgians for more than 100 years. Nearly 20,000 students call Georgia Southern University's 700-acre campus their educational home, and in 2012 the school was named the fourth most popular university in the country by U.S. News and World Report.
The Challenge
Georgia Southern University has developed an extensive surveillance system that encompasses more than 1,100 cameras, comprised of about half analog and half IP-based cameras. But even such a large-scale system has fallen short when it comes to meeting the flexibility demands of a college campus.
"One of the major challenges of a large university is having a lot of outdoor spaces, including parking lots, walking spaces and quads, that are active 24 hours per day," said Rob Swift, CATV and CCTV Services Manager, Georgia Southern University. "Due to the nature and size, we can't install full-on hard wired infrastructure throughout every square-inch of campus."
Swift also found that the constant influx of events – whether organized by students, faculty or outside organizations – can shift security needs on a daily basis. Large crowds of people may gather in one area for a particular event on Monday and in a completely different area on Tuesday. The surveillance options offered by traditional camera manufacturers today proved too uncompromising for such dynamic and evolving security needs.
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Made from genuine blown glass and painted by hand, the frosty fun - baseball glass Christmas ornament is a hit with young ballplayers and baseball nuts of any age. At this affordable price, it makes a great gift idea for kids on the team you coach or for the coaches and parents too. Some fans take it to autograph signings to have their favorite stars add their signature to the snowman glass baseball ornament. We'll include our attractive display cord and tuck this ornament into our exclusive velvet ball bag to enhance its presentation as a gift.
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Volleyball Welcomes Marquette and Syracuse to McGrath Arena
CHICAGO With Halloween celebrated today and children dressing as demons and goblins, the Blue Demons welcome the Golden Eagles and Orange to McGrath Arena for BIG EAST Conference matches this weekend. DePaul squares off with Marquette on Saturday while Syracuse invades Lincoln Park on Sunday. Both weekend matches are scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.
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Since Liberia's Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic began in March 2014, nearly 10,000 persons have contracted the virus and more than 4,000 have died. ... See More + The economic impact of Ebola survey is a high frequency cell phone survey designed to monitor the socio-economic impacts of the EVD crisis in Liberia. The survey has been conducted in five rounds from October 2014 to March 2015. The sample is based on the nationally representative household income and expenditure survey (HIES) implemented from February to August 2014 by the Liberia institute of statistics and geo-information services (LISGIS). The report presents an update of the epidemiological situation in Liberia and associated response efforts at the time of the fifth round of data collection (March 12-18, 2015). It gives an updates on the employment, prices, food security, coping strategies, health, and education indicators surveyed. See Less -
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Himelein,Kristen; Kastelic,Jonathan G.
Since early 2012, the World Bank's High Frequency South Sudan Survey has collected a panel data set to monitor the welfare and perceptions of citizens in a selected number of state capitals in South Sudan. ... See More + This note presents the findings of all six rounds of the survey on the topics of: (1) security, (2) economic conditions, (3) assets and consumption, and (4) access to services. The results are based on 143 households in Juba, Wau and Rumbek revisited six times. The analysis is restricted to households present in all rounds and, thus, is not statistically representative but only provides a descriptive narrative of the livelihood of the selected urban households in Juba, Rumbek and Wau. These cities are not among the cities most affected by the conflict. The analysis retrieves a glooming picture of the situation of the selected households. Since December 2013, security had deteriorated considerably with one in three households being looted. The majority of households reported elections as main prerequisite for peace, followed by ending the ethnic conflict. A detrimental effect on markets had translated into shortages and led to glooming pessimism about the economic future. The conflict had destroyed income opportunities, especially for households with low incomes, and generally affected daily life negatively. Insecurity had prevented children from attending school. Households reported fewer assets and more often hunger. See Less -
Working Paper 98381 JAN 01, 2015
Procurement Plan 92015 SEP 11, 2014
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study entitled, Community-based conditional cash transfers in Tanzania : results from a randomized trial, conducted since 2010 in Tanzania. ... See More + The study describes the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program and the results of a rigorous mixed methods impact evaluation on the household and individual level. The households focused on reducing risk and on improving their livelihoods rather than principally on increasing consumption. Funding for the study derived from the Japan Social Development Fund; Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, the Spanish Impact Evaluation Fund, the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets. See Less -
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Evans, David K.; Hausladen, Stephanie; Kosec, Katrina; Reese, Natasha
Hand washing with soap has been shown to reduce diarrhea and respiratory disease, the two leading causes of childhood deaths in low- and middle-income settings. ... See More + Global scaling up hand washing was initiated in 2006 by the water and sanitation program (WSP) in Peru, Senegal, Tanzania, and Vietnam. The hand washing promotion interventions deployed in the global scaling up countries were developed using a framework known as focus, opportunity, ability, and motivation (FOAM). A hand washing promotion intervention can only result in improved health or other downstream benefits if it results in increased hand washing behavior. In the impact evaluation of global scaling up hand washing, hand washing is measured using self-reports, rapid observations, and structured observations, recognizing that each method provides useful insights into awareness about hand washing, the availability of materials necessary for hand washing, and the practice of washing hands at critical times. Specifically, with respect to the FOAM framework, this report addresses constructs within the focus, opportunity, and ability domains. The goal of this report is to describe hand washing behavior of households included in the project impact evaluation, as measured during the baseline surveys conducted in Peru, Senegal, and Vietnam. The baseline surveys of global scaling up hand washing indicate opportunities to improve hand washing behavior in all of the countries where interventions are being tested. In the future, correlations can be described between measures and relationship with disease risk and other hygiene behaviors in the home, including sanitation and household water treatment. See Less -
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Ram, Pavani K.; Briceno, Bertha; Chase, Claire; Arnold, Ben; Colford, John M.; Gertler, Paul; Orsola-Vidal, Alexandra
Do households living in climate affected areas in the MENA region believe that changes in climate patterns and their environment are taking place? ... See More + Have households been affected by extreme weather events, and if so to what extent and which events have had the largest impact? What are the coping strategies that households declare having used, or could be using to cope with climate change and weather shocks? And what are the implications for policy? A new World Bank Study by Wodon et al. (2014) helps in answering these questions. It is widely recognized that MENA will be strongly affected by climate change. The frequency and severity of extreme weather shocks is expected to increase. Yet, the evidence on how households are already affected and whether they can cope and adapt to changing climatic conditions is limited. The study by Wodon et al. (2014) helps fill these knowledge gaps. It is based in large part on new household surveys and qualitative data from climate affected areas in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Syria, and Yemen. The study provides insights on household perceptions of, and vulnerability to, extreme weather shocks. See Less -
Brief 90155 JUL 01, 2014
This paper studies the benefits, in terms of reliability and frequency of poverty statistics, of conducting a hybrid survey that collects non-consumption data from all surveyed households and consumption data from only a small subsample. ... See More + Collecting detailed consumption or income data for the purpose of estimating poverty is costly and many low-income countries cannot afford to carry out such surveys on a regular basis. One option is to collect only non-consumption data and use consumption models developed from a previous round of household survey data to project poverty data. Although this approach is cost-effective because collection of non-consumption data is much cheaper than collection of consumption data, it is vulnerable to a structural change between the current and previous household surveys and might produce poverty estimates that are not comparable with the previous ones. Instead, the hybrid approach creates consumption models from a subsample of the current survey and applies them to the entire survey to project consumption data for all households in the sample. This paper examines the hybrid approach with data from the Bangladesh Household Income Expenditure Surveys of 2000 and 2005. Improvements in accuracy are achieved even with subsamples of just 320 or 640 households. Budget simulations confirm that the additional cost of collecting consumption data for such small subsamples is minimal. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS6909 JUN 01, 2014
Ahmed, Faizuddin; Dorji, Cheku; Takamatsu, Shinya; Yoshida, Nobuo
The Nigerian labor force, like that of many countries in Africa, is heavily concentrated in agriculture. According to World Bank reports, the agricultural sector in Nigeria grew by about 6.8 percent annually from 2005-2009. ... See More + This report focuses on the characteristics of the agricultural sector and rural households in Nigeria, and their implications for poverty. This report examines the relationships using nationally representative data from the general household survey (GHS) panel , 2010-11. It was found that an elasticity of poverty reduction with respect to agricultural productivity of between 0.25 to 0.3 percent implying that a 10 percent increase in agricultural productivity will decrease the likelihood of being poor by between 2.5 and 3 percent. Agriculture in Nigeria is varied across regions, and, not surprisingly, most households involved in the sector reside in rural areas. The report is organized as follows: section one gives introduction. Section two gives brief description of selected agricultural programs and the targets of government expenditure in the sector in recent decades. Section three presents detailed profile of rural households and the composition of economic activities with a particular focus on agriculture. Section four examines the determinants of agricultural productivity, and highlights the factors (land ownership, input use, labor, plot management, land tenure, and household characteristics) most important for small-holder productivity. Section five concludes. See Less -
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The objective of the socio-economic atlas (SEA) for Vanuatu is to present key indicators of the socioeconomic status of Vanuatu population, at the areas council level. ... See More + It allows for comparisons of various development indicators across various geographical areas. The atlas has been developed through a consultative process with various Government agencies and development organizations. The atlas provides representative socio-economic indicators at the level of area council (district), which is the smallest administrative division unit in Vanuatu. Most of the indicators presented in the atlas have been derived from the Vanuatu 2009 census data, which is rich in terms of the development indicators captured. The content of the census questionnaire defines the boundaries of what indicators can be presented. The authors have used small area estimation techniques to derive estimates of consumption-based poverty and inequality, by combining the use of the 2009 census data with the 2010 household income and expenditure survey (HIES) data. A separate technical paper describes the methodology used in doing this and is available from the Vanuatu national statistical office (VNSO) and the World Bank. The atlas includes five key groups of socio-economic indicators for population. Section A covers the indicators of household wellbeing in terms of consumption-based poverty rates and inequality indices. Section B looks at the sources of livelihoods for households in terms of livestock numbers and share of households engaged in various economic activities. Section C focuses on the households living conditions by looking at the quality of dwelling, access to water, and access to electricity. Section D explores education outcomes and shows percent of adult population with various levels of schooling. Section E looks at some indicators related to health status, such as percent of adults who smoke and consume alcohol. Section F looks at the distribution of education and health facilities, and roads and tracks in the national road network. See Less -
Working Paper 87675 JAN 01, 2014
Ivaschenko, Alex; Sviridova, Tatiana; Pabon, Laura
This report presents results from baseline data collection as part of the effort to evaluate the impacts of the program kepala keluarga (PEKKA) program. ... See More + PEKKA is an empowerment program to address the poverty and vulnerability of female-headed households in the poorest parts of Indonesia. It wants to achieve this objective by facilitating training to local women to become community organizers, providing seed grants to launch sustainable micro-finance, and various capacity building initiatives. This program, which is funded by the Japan social development fund (JSDF), consists of several components that aim at building capacity at the national level as well as the local level. This report provides a brief overview of the impact evaluation strategy for PEKKA and analyzes the dataset that was collected at the baseline, prior to program implementation. Its objective is two-fold. First, it examines whether the villages (and the households and individuals) that are selected to receive the PEKKA program (the treatment villages) have characteristics similar to those which will be part of the control group. The authors elaborate in section four why this comparability is important to establish. Second, this report also makes use of the baseline dataset to answer the following question: are female-headed households different from male-headed households and if so, in what ways? The authors hope to use the dataset to inform about the premise underlying the program. This report is structured as follows. Section one gives introduction. Section two outlines the evaluation strategy. Section three discusses the data and the outcomes analyzed in this report. Section four discusses the methodology used to assess the comparability of treatment and control groups as well as the results. Section five includes both the methodology and the results to examine characteristic differences between female- and male-headed households and their members. Section six concludes. See Less -
Working Paper 93420 JAN 01, 2014
This paper examines the effects of expanding access to credit on the decisions and welfare of households. It focuses on the entry of Banco Azteca, the first bank in Mexico targeting households from the informal sector. ... See More + Panel data suggest that informal households in municipalities with Banco Azteca branches experienced several changes in their saving, credit and consumption patterns. In order to estimate the impact of Aztecas entry, the paper develops a dynamic model of household choices in which the bank is endogenously selecting the municipalities for branch openings. The analysis finds that in municipalities in which the bank entered, households were better able to smooth their consumption and accumulate more durable goods even though the overall proportion of households that save went down by 6.6 percent. These results suggest that the use of savings as a buffer on income fluctuations declines once formal credit is available. What is more, these effects vary across households. Among informal households, those who never receive formal job offers have the highest decline in saving rates. The model is also used to evaluate a legislation to cap interest rates levied by formal credit institutions. Simulations suggest that if the Mexican government were to cap the interest rate of Azteca at the rate for traditional banks, Azteca would stop operating in the poorest and least populated municipalities. See Less -
Policy Research Working Paper WPS6634 OCT 01, 2013
Ruiz, Claudia
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Cash transfers, conditions, school enrollment, and child work : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ecuador, conducted in 1999 to present in Ecuador. ... See More + The study observed the impact of the Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH), a cash transfer program, on enrollment and child work among poor children in Ecuador on the household level. The BDH program had a large, positive impact on school enrollment, about 10 percent points, and a large, negative impact on child work, about 17 percent points. Significant program effects on enrollment were only found among households who believed that there was an enrollment requirement associated with the program. See Less -
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Schady, Norbert; Araujo, Caridad
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Are cash transfers made to women spent like other sources of income, conducted in 2003 in Ecuador. ... See More + The study observed there are two main findings. First, the that households randomly assigned to receive Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH) transfers have a significantly higher food share in expenditures than those that were randomly assigned to the control group. Second, they show that the rising food share among BDH beneficiaries is found among households that have both adult males and females, but not among households that only have adult females. These program effects on the food share are only found among mixed-adult households, and not among female-only households. When the sample is limited to mixed-adult households, significant program effects are only found among households where the bargaining capacity of women was initially likely to be weaker. See Less -
Brief 81199 AUG 14, 2013
Schady, Norbert; Rosero, Jose
This brief summarizes the investing cash transfers to raise long term living standards in Mexico. The study measures 18 months of exposure to the program. ... See More + Households receive benefits for a three year period. Cash benefits are received monthly. Using data from a randomized experiment, the author find that poor rural Mexican households invested part of their cash transfers from the oportunidades program in productive assets, increasing agricultural income by almost 10 percent after 18 months of benefits. The author estimates that for each peso transferred, households consume 74 cents and invest the rest, permanently increasing long-term consumption by about 1.6 cents. Results suggest that cash transfers can achieve long-term increases in consumption through investment in productive activities, thereby permitting beneficiary households to attain higher living standards that are sustained even after transitioning off the program. See Less -
Brief 81383 AUG 14, 2013
Gertler, Paul; Martinez, Sebastian; Rubio-Codina, Marta
The brief summarizes the targeting the poor: evidence from a field experiment in Indonesia for the period December 2008 - January 2009. This paper reports an experiment in 640 Indonesian villages on three approaches to target the poor: proxy means tests (PMT), where assets are used to predict consumption; community targeting, where villagers rank everyone from richest to poorest; and a hybrid. ... See More + Defining poverty based on PPP$2 per capita consumption, community targeting and the hybrid perform somewhat worse in identifying the poor than PMT, though not by enough to significantly affect poverty outcomes for a typical program. Elite capture does not explain these results. Instead, communities appear to apply a different concept of poverty. See Less -
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Alatas, Vivi; Banerjee, Abhijit; Hanna, Rema; Olken, Bejnamin; Tobias, Julia
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February 28, 2013
By James Sherk
In his State of the Union address, President Obama called for raising minimum wage to $9.00 an hour. He argued that "no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty."[1] Most minimum-wage workers, however, are not poor. Congress should examine which workers—that would not lose their jobs—would benefit from a higher minimum wage.
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau show that most minimum-wage earners are young, part-time workers and that relatively few of them live below the poverty line. Their average family income is over $53,000 a year. A hike in the minimum wage primarily raises pay for suburban teenagers, not the working poor. If Congress and the President seriously want to help the working poor, they should look elsewhere.
Few Minimum-Wage Positions
Relatively few Americans earn the federal minimum wage.[2] In 2011 and 2012, 3.7 million Americans reported earning $7.25 or less per hour—just 2.9 percent of all workers in the United States.[3] These numbers include workers who also earn tip income. Many of those earning less than the minimum wage work in restaurants and make more than the minimum wage after taking tips into account.
After-School Jobs
Minimum-wage earners fall into two distinct categories: young workers, usually in school, and older workers who have left school. Most minimum-wage earners fall into the first category; just over half are between the ages of 16 and 24.[4] The rest are 25 or older.
Minimum-wage workers under 25 are typically not their family's sole breadwinners. Rather, they tend to live in middle-class households that do not rely on their earnings. Generally, they have not finished their schooling and are working part-time jobs. Over three-fifths of them (62 percent) are currently enrolled in school.[5] These workers represent the largest group that would benefit directly from a higher minimum wage, provided they kept or could find a job.
The characteristics of the teenagers and young adults who earn the minimum wage or less support the notion that these minimum-wage workers rarely work to support children and their families:
Older Workers
Adults who earn the minimum wage are less likely to live in middle- and upper-income families than are the teenagers and young adults who earn the minimum wage. Nonetheless, three-fourths of older workers earning the minimum wage live above the poverty line. They have an average family income of $42,500 a year, well above the poverty line of $22,350 per year for a family of four. Most of them choose to work part-time, and a sizeable number are married.
The average older minimum-wage earner simply does not fit the stereotype of a worker living on the edge of destitution.
A few important characteristics of the 49.5 percent of minimum-wage earners who are over the age of 24 bear this out:
Increased Minimum Wage Does Not Reduce Poverty
Many advocates of higher minimum wages argue that the minimum wage needs to rise to help low-income single parents attempting to survive on just a minimum-wage job. Minimum-wage workers, however, do not fit this stereotype. Just 4 percent of minimum-wage workers are single parents working full-time, compared to 5.6 percent of all U.S. workers.[7] Minimum-wage earners are actually less likely to be single parents working full-time than is the average American worker.
Higher minimum wages do not address the main reason that most poor families live below the poverty line. Contrary to what many assume, low wages are not their primary problem, because most poor Americans do not work for the minimum wage. The problem is that most poor Americans do not work at all.
As the table demonstrates, two-thirds of individuals living below the poverty line did not work, and less than one in 10 worked full-time year-round. Families are poor not because they earn low wages but because they do not have full-time jobs. Raising the minimum wage does not address this problem.
Worse, making it more expensive to hire inexperienced workers leads businesses to hire fewer of them. This makes it harder for low-income families to gain the experience and skills necessary to rise out of poverty.[8] This is one reason why studies consistently find that higher minimum wages do not reduce poverty rates.[9]
Find Another Way to Help the Poor
Many support raising the minimum wage because they want to help low-income Americans get ahead, but minimum-wage earners are not much more likely to live in poverty than are most other Americans: Less than one in four live in a family with earnings below the poverty line. Two-thirds work part-time, and most are between 16 and 24 years old. Minimum-wage earners' average family income exceeds $50,000 a year, and very few are single parents working full-time to support their families—fewer than in the population as a whole.
Most of the benefits from raising the minimum wage will go to families who are well above poverty. These benefits will come at the cost of reducing the availability of entry-level jobs. Employers respond to higher labor costs by hiring fewer workers. Higher minimum wages eliminate entry-level positions that provide unskilled employees the opportunity to gain experience. Less experience makes it harder for workers to become more productive and earn higher wages.
Unsurprisingly, researchers find that higher minimum wages do not reduce poverty. Congress should look for less ineffective ways to help the poor.
—James Sherk is Senior Policy Analyst in Labor Economics in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation.
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[1]Executive Office of the President of the United States, "Remarks by the President in the State of the Union Address," February 12, 2013, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/12/remarks-president-state-union-address (accessed February 28, 2013).
[2]Heritage Foundation analysis of data from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics jointly conduct the CPS. All numbers, except average family income and poverty status, come from analysis of the 2011 and 2012 Merged Outgoing Rotation Group (MORG) file of the CPS. Minimum-wage earners were defined as hourly employees paid $7.25 an hour or less. Poverty and family income statistics come from the March supplement to the 2011 and 2012 CPS data. Data available for download at http://thedataweb.rm.census.gov/ftp/cps_ftp.html and https://cps.ipums.org/cps/ (accessed February 28, 2013).
[3]The 2.9 percent figure includes both salaried and hourly employees. Approximately 5.2 percent of hourly employees get paid the federal minimum wage.
[4]50.5 percent of minimum wage earners are between the ages of 16 and 24.
[5]Heritage Foundation calculations using the 2011 and 2012 Current Population Survey. The months of June, July, and August were excluded to avoid conflating summer breaks with non-enrollment.
[6]The poverty level for a family of four in 2011 was $22,350 a year. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, "The 2011 HHS Poverty Guidelines," http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/11poverty.shtml (accessed February 28, 2013).
[7]A single parent is defined as someone who reports that he or she has one or more of his or her own children present in the household and who is widowed, divorced, separated, or never married. Full-time employees are classified as those working 35 or more hours a week.
[8]David Neumark, J.M. Ian Salas, and William Wascher, "Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?" National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 18681, January 2013, http://www.nber.org/papers/w18681.pdf (accessed February 28, 2013).
[9]Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway, "Does the Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty?" Employment Policies Institute, June 2001, http://epionline.org/studies/vedder_06-2001.pdf; David Neumark, Mark Schweitzer, and William Wascher, "Minimum Wage Effects Throughout the Wage Distribution," The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Spring 2004), pp. 425–450; David Neumark, Mark Schweitzer, and William Wascher, "The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Distribution of Family Incomes: A Non-Parametric Analysis," The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Autumn, 2005), pp. 867–894; and David Neumark and William Wascher, "Do Minimum Wages Fight Poverty?" Economic Inquiry, July 2002, pp. 315–333.
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text: Welcome to RPGFan's Best RPGs of the 6th generation of consoles feature. With the PlayStation 2 now being on its last legs, we thought it would be fun to take a look back at the previous generation of consoles and pick our favorite RPGs released on those systems. The 6th generation of consoles started with the release of the Sega Dreamcast in 1998 (Japan) followed by the PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox consoles. Below you'll find links to each editor's Top 5 RPGs of the generation as well as an Overall RPGFan Top 10 list.


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No Southern Comfort For Wishful Liberals
November 20, 2012
Southern liberals say the region isn't as severely Republican as it seems. But they're ignoring reality.
The Square and the Flair
August 02, 2012
BEFORE HE EARNED his reputation as one of the best ad men in politics, before he wrote for several major television shows, and long before he became Mitt Romney's top campaign strategist, Stuart Stevens found himself in Cameroon, face to face with a machine-gun-wielding soldier looking to shake him down. It was 1988, and a few weeks earlier, Stevens had deposited himself in the nearby Central African Republic to pick up a friend's Land Rover and drive it back to France. But the trip was a disaster from the get-go. Local officials confiscated the car and refused to release it.
Survival of the Mittest
February 28, 2012
JACKSON, Michigan – Did Mitt Romney win the Michigan primary? Or did he merely survive it? That really depends on your perspective. As recently as a few days ago, Romney was trailing in the polls. And as recently as Tuesday afternoon, Romney staffers were talking down expectations. But Romney won a clean victory on Tuesday night. He won handily in the Detroit metro area, his home turf, but he also ran strong in more contested counties, like Livingston and Jackson, to the west. But why was it ever this close? Romney had superior money, organization, and, for a long time, name recognition.
The Accountable Presidency
February 01, 2010
Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush By John Yoo (Kaplan, 544 pp., $29.95) Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State By Garry Wills (Penguin, 288 pp., $27.95) I. In December 2008, Chris Wallace asked Vice President Cheney, "If the president, during war, decides to do something to protect the country, is it legal?" Cheney's answer included a reference to a military authority that President Bush did not exercise.
Shooting Blanks
January 01, 2006
It's early December and Chris Cox, the NRA's chief lobbyist, is describing the exotic hunting trophies--from assorted skulls to giant warthog hooves that serve as bookends--that decorate his Capitol Hill office. "The Kudu. The Livingston Eland. The Blue Wildebeest," says Cox in his mellifluous Jackson, Tennessee, accent, ticking off the creatures he has downed. He pauses, then beams, "And the Cape Buffalo. It's one of the Big Five--one of the five most dangerous animals you can hunt in Africa." But there's one recent kill that Cox isn't bragging about.
Homo Scriblerus
March 26, 2001
Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H.J. Jackson (Yale University Press, 324 pp., $27.95) A certain Cambridge classics teacher named Walter Whiter suddenly became fairly famous when a peculiar book of his, A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakespeare, originally published and scorned in 1794, was rediscovered and for a while admired in the twentieth century. The brief vogue of the Specimen prompted some research into its author, so we know that Whiter was for some years the close friend of Richard Porson, the great Greek scholar.
Pilgrimage to Jackson
May 11, 1963
Fort Payne, Alabama The State of Alabama, itching faintly in its conscience and outraged violently in its public relations sense, has charged Floyd Simpson, a grocer, with having murdered William Moore, a pilgrim, on US Highway 11, 28 miles from here, an hour or so after dark. Bill Moore had set himself to walk from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Jackson, Miss., where, as a white man, he would ask Governor Ross Barnett to begin to understand the aspirations of Negroes to "be gracious and give more than is immediately demanded of you." He planned to cover 40 miles a day pushing his belongings in a su


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O'Bannon lawsuit could be an extinction level event for NCAA
Coming up on the short end of this legal battle will effectively end amateurism in college athletics
At last, the shoe is on the other foot.
Ever since the NCAA decided to appoint itself judge, jury and executioner of university athletic programs, schools under investigation have offered up a sacrifice in hopes of leniency.
"Don't drop the hammer on us," they beg, "and we'll self-impose sanctions."
Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. There's never any rhyme or reason to how punishment is administered.
Now, however, it's the NCAA throwing itself on the mercy of the court. Only this is a court that exists in the United States judicial system, not the NCAA's self-serving kangaroo court.
The esteemed body has cut ties with EA Sports, ending a beautiful financial relationship that resulted in some terrific video games and a whole bunch of money for both businesses.
But as you know, a lot of those players in a lot of those games bore uncanny resemblances to "real" players. And those "real" players have now filed suit against the NCAA.
It all started when former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon sued the NCAA, Electronic Arts (EA Sports) and Collegiate Licensing Company for profiting from his likeness without allowing him to profit from it, too.
The official complaint charges that the NCAA violated antitrust laws by " … conspiring to fix at zero the amount of compensation athletes can receive for the use of their names, images and likenesses in products or media while they are in school and by requiring athletes to sign forms under which they allegedly relinquish in perpetuity all rights pertaining to the use of the names, images and likenesses in ways including TV contracts, rebroadcasts of games, and video games."
Now six current athletes (including Clemson's Darius Robinson) have joined the suit, demanding a 50-50 split of TV revenue which, in theory, would be put into a fund available to them when their college careers end. That's the game-changer.
If this case is certified as class action and the NCAA loses, then you can kiss the NCAA goodbye. The financial losses will be staggering.
That's a big reason the NCAA cut ties with EA Sports. The more avatars that look like actual players, the more actual players will have a right to sue. It's a risk the folks in the home office are not willing to take going forward.
Here's the prepared statement by the NCAA announcing the divorce:
"We are confident in our legal position regarding the use of our trademarks in video games. But given the current business climate and costs of litigation, we determined participating in this game is not in the best interests of the NCAA."
I don't believe for a second officials in the organization are confident. In fact, I think the NCAA is running scared.
Their lawyers have to hope they can either settle this out of court or avoid class action status and deal with lawsuits one at a time.
Otherwise O'Bannon vs. the NCAA is the meteor versus the dinosaurs — an extinction level event.
Losing the case will put a short-term financial hurt on Electronic Arts, but the money from the EA Sports college football franchise accounts for a relatively small portion of its overall profits. As long as it has its Madden and soccer brands it'll be fine.
And besides, it'll still make a top-selling college football game — it just won't have the NCAA's name attached to it in 2015.
The empire will hardly crumble.
Not so with the NCAA.
Coming up on the short end of this legal battle will effectively end amateurism in college athletics.
And if there's no longer amateurism in college athletes, would there really even be a need for the NCAA?
Probably not — and certainly not if it's bankrupt.


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The Township Board on Monday unanimously approved $400,000 from the township's general fund to go toward the purchase of a $725,000, 75-foot "quint" fire apparatus. Board members Bill Kieft, Laurie Larsen and Bob Worthington were not present for the roll-call vote.
"It's a piece of important equipment," Township Trustee Tom Jenkins said during the meeting.
Township Manager Bill Cargo said he had received some questions about funding for previous fire trucks purchased in the township. The past two trucks were purchased with money in the Fire/Rescue Department's fund balance. However, they are unable to do that now because there has not been an increase in the Fire/Rescue fund due to the recession, Cargo said.
"That's why we're looking for support from the general fund," Cargo said. "There are 11 different funds in the township … the general fund is able to support those other funds."
After the board approved the fire truck funds, Kenneth Hoexum of Spring Lake Township raised concerns of federal and state taxes becoming a burden on citizens throughout the country. He inquired about how many fires the township fights each year, what the urgency is in purchasing the quint, and asked officials if they could defer the purchase of the truck.
"It's just the burden of taxation that is being imposed on all citizens in the country today," Hoexum said after the meeting. "And if we don't stop it, our country isn't going to be here anymore."
The Grand Haven Township Fire/Rescue Department fights about 36 fires a year, according to Fire Chief Tom Gerencer.
There are two millage options that the board will be considering to cover the remaining $325,000 for the quint: a one-year, 0.62 mill that would cost taxpayers with a $100,000 home $31; or a two-year, 0.31 mill that would cost taxpayers $15.50 each year.
Cargo said the next step is for board members to decide on a millage option and adopt a ballot proposal for the Aug. 7 election. That is expected in May, Cargo said.
To read more of this story, see today's print or e-edition of the Grand Haven Tribune.


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Laura Spagnolo
Laura Spagnolo is a doctoral candidate at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. Previously, from 2003 to 2005, she completed a master degree in Public Affairs at the at the same school. Prior to undertaking her graduate studies, Laura was a Research Assistant at the Federal Investments Council (CFI), a public agency involved in decentralization and economic development of the Argentine provinces. She graduated from Torcuato Di Tella University in 2000 with a major in International Relations and a minor in International Economics. Research for her senior thesis was passed with special mention. As a doctoral student Laura has been an integrant of the University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP) led by James K. Galbraith.
- Spagnolo, Laura. 2010. "Desigualdad Salarial en Argentina por Sector de Actividad Económica y Jurisdicciones Geográficas entre 1994-2007." in Políticas Públicas y Razón Populista. El Modelo Progresista de Kirchner: 2003-2007, edited by Elina Mecle. Buenos Aires: Proyecto Editorial.
- Galbraith, James, Laura Spagnolo, and Daniel Munevar. 2008. "Inequidad Salarial y Pobreza Urbana en Cuba durante el Periodo Especial." in Procesos de Urbanización de la Pobreza y Nuevas Formas de Exclusión Social. Los Retos de las Políticas Sociales de las Ciudades Latinoamericanas del Siglo XXI, edited by Alicia Ziccardi. Bogotá: Siglo del Hombre Editores.
- Spagnolo, Laura, Alvaro Quezada, and Viviana Salinas. 2008. "Growth with Equity? Pay Inequality in Chile during the Democratic Era (1990-2006)." UTIP Working Paper No. 46, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
- Spagnolo, Laura and Daniel Munevar. 2008. "After Years of (Economic) Solitude: Neoliberal Reforms and Trends in Manufacturing Sector Pay Inequality in Colombia." UTIP Working Paper No. 47, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
- Galbraith, James K., Laura Spagnolo, and Daniel Munevar. 2008. "Inequidad Salarial en Cuba durante el Periodo Especial " América Latina Hoy 48:109-138.
- Galbraith, James K., Laura Spagnolo, and Sergio Pinto. 2007. "Economic Inequality and Political Power: A Comparative Analysis of Argentina and Brazil." Business and Politics 9(1).
- Interview of James K. Galbraith, Economic Supplement, Página 12 (Argentine Newspaper), August 13, 2006. Available at: http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/cash/17-2566-2006-08-14.html
- The XXIX International Congress of Latin American Studies Association (LASA). October 6-9, 2010. Toronto, Canada. Paper accepted.
- Octavas Jornadas sobre Mercado de Trabajo y Equidad en Argentina. National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS) . August 12-13, 2010. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Attended.
- 9o Congreso Nacional de Estudios del Trabajo, Asociacion Argentina de Especialistas en Estudios del Trabajo (ASET). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 5-7, 2009. Attended.
- Declining Inequality After the Crisis of Neo-liberalism: Evidence from Argentina, Brazil and Chile, 1990-2007." 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Boston, Massachusetts ~ August 28-31, 2008. Paper Presented.
- The XXVIII International Congress of Latin American Studies Association (LASA). June 11-14, 2009. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Paper Presented.
- 2009 National Conference of Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA). April 2-5, 2009. Chicago, Illinois. Paper Presented.
- 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Boston, Massachusetts. August 28-31, 2008. Paper Presented.
- 8th World Congress of RSAI 2008, São Paulo, Brazil, March 17-19, 2008. Paper Presented by co-author.
- 2008 Latin American Social and Public Policy Conference, The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, February 14-15, 2008. Paper Presented.
- XXVIII Annual ILASSA Student Conference, The University of Texas at Austin, February 7-9, 2008. Paper Presented.
- The Poverty, Economic Integration and International Trade Conference, Latin American Council for Social Sciences (CLACSO-CROP) and Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (UASB), Quito, Ecuador, November 27-29, 2007. Paper accepted.
- The XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Montreal, Canada, September 5-8, 2007. Paper Presented.
- Conference on Distribution, Equality and National Economic Policies In The Globalization Era: Centro de Estudios sobre Ciencia, Desarrollo y Educación Superior (REDES), Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 22-23, 2007. Paper Presented.
- Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 1-3, 2007. Paper Presented.
- Urban Poverty and New Forms of Social Exclusion Conference, CLACSO-CROP-IIS/UNAM, Mexico City, November 21-23, 2006. Paper Presented.
- 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Philadelphia, August 30th-September 3, 2006. Paper Presented.
- The VIII Conference on Globalization and Development, Havana, Cuba, February 2006. Paper Presented.
- Luxemburg Income Study Summer Workshop Series, University of Luxembourg Campus, Luxemburg, July 7th to July 12th, 2008.
- Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty, Development, and Globalization led by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University's Initiative for Policy Dialogue and the Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, England, June 25th-July 13th, 2007.
Research Interests: Income Inequality, Poverty and Social Policy in Latin America


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"Glee" finally returned to our TVs on Tuesday, when we learned of Quinn's fate and met Blaine's famous actor brother, Cooper Anderson!
Matt Bomer, star of "White Collar," guested on the ep as Darren Criss' character's older bro, and the two battled out their problems in song (as one does on "Glee," naturally).
Cooper also headed up an acting class for the New Directions kids, where he stressed the importance of pointing, and expressed his disappointment in losing out on a "Transformers 4" audition for Michael Bay. Ever the good brother, Blaine suggested they put Coop's audition on tape ... and it's hilarious!
Watch below as Cooper and Blaine act out quite possibly the awesomest audition video ever.
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Dr. Eyler's research focuses on understanding individual differences in cognitive and emotional functioning using structural and functional brain imaging. In particular, she has examined the relationship between cognitive deficits in schizophrenia and abnormalities of brain function and how these relationships may change with age. Her current NIMH-funded R01 project aims to examine whether brain structure and function appear to age more rapidly among individuals with bipolar disorder and how this may relate to increasing cognitive deficits with age. Dr. Eyler is also a co-investigator in the Autism Center of Excellence at UCSD and is involved in studies that aim to discover a bio-behavioral fingerprint of autism at a very young age by combining neuroimaging, behavioral, and genetic measures in infants and toddlers at risk for autism to improve diagnostic predictions and better understand the developmental etiology of the disorder. Dr. Eyler also has an interest in healthy aging and has conducted studies examining the relationship of cognitive and emotional success to brain function among healthy seniors, and she is a co-investigator on the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging MRI study which aims to understand genetic and environmental contributions to brain aging and its association with cognitive and emotional functioning.
Dr. Eyler is a licensed clinical psychologist with training in neuropsychological and diagnostic assessment and adult outpatient psychotherapy.
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Notebook: Aaron Rodgers not eager to rekindle relationship with Brett Favre
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Aaron Rodgers has gone out of his way to never say a bad word publicly about his predecessor since Brett Favre's nasty divorce from the Green Bay Packers.
But the Packers' current Pro Bowl quarterback also has made clear his relationship with Favre -- who will lead the Minnesota Vikings into Lambeau Field against his old team on Sunday night -- was over shortly after the veteran's first retirement in March 2008.
Rodgers left a message for Favre, who miffed Rodgers by not returning the call. Favre eventually unretired, was traded to the New York Jets and played one season there before retiring again, unretiring again and signing with the Packers' rivals last summer.
The pair didn't speak until Oct. 5, 2009, when they had a brief exchange on the field after the first of the Vikings' two wins over the Packers last season.
Asked in a conference call on Wednesday whether he'd like to reconnect with Favre someday, Rodgers paused and then said, "I enjoyed the three years that we spent together. Now he's out there and I'm out here."
Earlier in the day, Favre said he thinks his relationship with Rodgers is "fine" but acknowledged they "don't talk on a regular basis."
Favre was cold to Rodgers after the Packers drafted him in the first round of the 2005 NFL draft -- a move that contributed to Favre's distrust for Packers general manager Ted Thompson -- but they eventually became close enough that Rodgers would have dinner with Favre and his wife, Deanna, during the 2007 season.
"I thought the sky's the limit for the guy before he started playing and that has held true," Favre said. "I think he's a very good teammate, he's a good fit, has handled that transition very well, but there's no hard feelings. I think that he's as good as any player at that position in this league right now."
Favre's relationship with Packers coach Mike McCarthy apparently is cordial. He sent McCarthy a text message after the birth of McCarthy's daughter last year.
Asked what he's seen from his old quarterback, McCarthy said, "Brett can play. He does a great job of managing the offense. He's in control out there and he's going to take advantage of what you are doing on defense. We've got to be sharp and detailed and disciplined. He's got more weapons around him. He's definitely going to be a challenge for us."
Inside game
Favre lingered on the practice field after the team's morning walkthrough, talking with several defensive backs and miming the adjustments they might see from the Packers' receivers.
Favre hasn't played for Green Bay in almost three years, but Vikings coach Brad Childress acknowledged the team has tapped his brain -- even having Favre take some scout-team reps last year because of his familiarity with Rodgers.
"Mannerisms, cadence, that type of thing," Childress said. "From that standpoint, it's useful in him knowing some things about that offense and particularly Aaron Rodgers when he was younger, and maybe giving you a vision of how he thinks and how he looks at things."
Asked how much information he could provide about the Packers offense, Favre said, "Not a lot. I really felt like last year there was not a lot either. The only thing I could have said or would say is try to put yourself in Donald Driver's shoes, Greg Jennings, James Jones, Donald Lee. I was obviously with Aaron for quite a while. They can always change signals. Everyone's scheme is their scheme."
Quick hits
• Favre admitted it was "nerve-wracking" returning to Lambeau Field for the first time last season but doesn't anticipate the same feeling on Sunday. "It was a concern about how I would play, and I've never had that feeling before going back," Favre said. "I went back there last year (and) the whole thing just seemed surreal to me. I'd like to think that that part of it is out of the way, but still, a special place to play and being on the opposite side just makes it a little bit different. But ... the fact that we've already played this game -- I assume it would help a little bit."
• Childress said coaches can do a better job manufacturing opportunities for TE Visanthe Shiancoe, who wasn't targeted with a pass on Sunday. "It's a matter of us putting him in a position to be a prime look on certain passes," Childress said. "Now, I always say, you can be looking at somebody as a prime guy and if he's gloved or he's being covered by two people it has to go elsewhere. We can do a better job of that, putting him in better situations."
• Favre said C Jon Cooper "held his own" in his first NFL start on Sunday, in spite of allowing Favre to get drilled on the Vikings' first offensive play. It was the first of eight hits Favre took against the Cowboys, all in the first half. "I know our guys are playing as hard as they can," he said. "I feel like I can endure it, as long as something's not broken or torn or whatever. Do i like it? I'd much rather not get hit, but I think that's part of my M.O. is being able to withstand that and come back and make plays and not being too concerned about it."
• WR/KR Percy Harvin was named NFC special-teams player of the week for his performance against Dallas, which included a 95-yard kick-return touchdown.
• Favre was asked during his conference call with Wisconsin reporters how anyone could believe this is really his final season. "That's a good question," Favre said. "You know, it is. Just hold your pen, we'll see what happens. But that's probably why everyone's like, 'Yeah, we'll wait and see.' But let's get through this game and we'll figure out what happens the rest of the year, but that's the way I plan on ending it."