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Entries for Internet Resources
Tax Statistics
SOI Tax Stats : Corporation Tax Statistics
URL: http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/bustaxstats/article/0,,id=97145,00.html
Tax Statistics : Produced by the Statistics of Income Division and Other Areas of the Internal Revenue Service
URL: http://www.irs.gov/taxstats
IRS Data Book
URL: http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/article/0,,id=102174,00.html
SOI Tax Stats : International Individual Tax Statistics
Analysis of Local Government Expenditures and Property Tax Growth
The Fiscal Research Center (AYSPS), the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, and the Georgia Public Policy Foundation jointly prepared this document. We believe it would be desirable for there to be a set of numbers that we agreed reflect the recent growth in expenditures and property taxes by type of government in Georgia. The objective was to produce a set of numbers for each level or type of government that were developed on a consistent basis across governments and over time, and that reflect actual changes and not differences over time or across types of governments in how the data are reported. Read more
Mortgage Market
A Day in the Life of a Child
From Poverty, Opportunity: Putting the Market to Work for Lower Income Families
Evidence-Based Policy Making
Replacing All Property Taxes: An Analysis of Revenue Issues
Recent Financial Market Disruptions:
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Visualizing Economics
Taking a page from Adam Smith, the motto of this delightful site is "Making the 'Invisible Hand' Visible." Under the guidance of Catherine Mulbrandon, the site brings together economic data and the powerful techniques of information visualization. She does this quite effectively through such thematic maps as "Where do Britain's rich and poor live?" and the "United States Household Income Map".
Source: The Scout Report
Publish Not Perish: the Art and Craft of Publishing in Scholarly Journals
*** PRIMO Site of the Month Interview, August 2007***
Publish Not Perish: the Art and Craft of Publishing in Scholarly Journals
http://publishnotperish.org/
Interview with Jennifer Knievel, Humanities Reference and Instruction Librarian
University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries
Interviewer: Courtney Greene
Description: This tutorial was created through a collaborative effort of the libraries of the University of Colorado. It focuses on publishing in scholarly journals. In this course the user will learn t describe therole of scholarly publishing in an academic career; list the essential steps of planning and writing a scholarly paper; develop a personal publication plan; compare and contrast the different publishing models currently in use; describe the types of articles that can be written; list the pros and cons of collaborative authoring; and describe the tools and resources a scholarly writer needs to have on hand.
To read the full interview and to browse the archive of previous profiles, please see
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/is/iscommittees/webpages/emergingtech/site/index.htm
Executive Excess 2007: The Staggering Social Cost of U.S. Business Leadership
Community Economic Development (CED) HotReport
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: Public Policy Discussion Papers
The Subprime Crisis
Audio and transcript of a March 2007 report that sets out the issues relating to "subprime [mortgage] lending, delinquencies, foreclosures, bankruptcies, and the wake of devastation that the turmoil in the subprime market is leaving behind." Includes links to related sites. From MortgageMediaMag.
U.S.-China Trade Tensions
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OECD Policy Brief: Lifelong Learning and Human Capital
The minimum wage: Making it pay
"When an employment search website was launched in Germany a few years ago, it caused a stir, not least because of its provocative title: Jobdumping.de. The idea was crudely simple, too." Minimum wages are hotly debated as ways of improving equity and boosting the wages of lower skilled workers. All OECD countries apply some kind of wage floor. Do they achieve their goals?
Making Markets an Asset for the Poor
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The Importance of the EITC to Urban Economies
Though most do not recognize it as an "urban" program, the Earned Income Tax Credit provides significant benefits to families in cities and suburbs, and stimulates local economic activity. In this presentation to Congressional staff organized by Living Cities, Alan Berube examines what Members can do to maximize the benefits of the EITC for lower-income families and communities in their districts.
