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  Pragati — Authority: 121
  US-Pakistan strains STEPHEN P COHEN of the Brookings Institution traces the history of the fluctuating relationship between Pakistan and the U.S. since the inception of Pakistan over 60 years ago. In his book, “ Superpower Rivalry and Conflict: The long shadow of the Cold War on the 21st century ” he states that ...
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• State, Local Tax Revenues Decline 7%

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 140
  State and local tax revenues fell 7% in the third quarter of 2009 from a year ago, the Census Bureau said in a report underscoring how the economic downturn is stressing government collections.Sales taxes declined 9% to $70 billion in the third quarter compared with the year-ago period, the Census Bureau said. Income ...
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• Cities for Cycling: More Coverage

  
  m-bike.org — Authority: 431
  We recently wrote about the NACTO Cities for Cycling project and its kickoff meeting in Washington DC earlier this month. This meeting was actually about more than just this new project. It was hosted by the Brookings Institute and featured Bruce Katz. Katz recently wrote the interesting article, T he Detroit ...
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• Keith Brookings GONNA BLOODY THEY NOSE

  
  SPORTSbyBROOKS — Authority: 676
  Not exactly Drew Brees . Or Ray Lewis . Or Michael Strahan . Or Bobby Bowden . Or … I’ll just shut up. Share This
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• Downturn keeping Americans’ wanderlust in check (Wash Post)

  
  Kelso's Corner — Authority: 432
  Perhaps having a better sense of local place + broadband internet access isnt so bad?
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• Sheryl Sandberg Joins Disney Board of Directors

  
  The Moving Arts Film Journal — Authority: 121
  BURBANK, Calif., December 23, 2009—The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) Board of Directors has nominated Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook Inc., to be a new independent director, effective upon her election at the Company’s next annual meeting. “Sheryl is an outstanding executive who can add ...
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• Report: Education system a mystery for lack of media coverage

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 617
  A December report from the Brookings Institution decries the lack of education coverage in today’s media. According to the report, only 1.4 percent of media coverage in the first nine months of 2009 dealt with education. Moreover, notes the report, reporters are often drawn to the low-hanging fruit, leaving ...
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• Suicide Democrats: Earning the publics disgust

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Rushing to lock the nation into expensive health-care and climate-change commitments, Democrats are in an understandable frenzy because public enthusiasm for both crusades has been inversely proportional to the time the public has had to think about them. And the president pushing this agenda has seen his job-approval ...
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• Albuquerque’s economy doing better–but not great

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 572
  The Albuquerque metro area is one of six metro areas to have reached pre-recession levels of output according to a report by the Brookings Institute tracking the economic recession and recovery in metro areas . Albuquerque still, however, has not reached pre-recession levels of unemployment and is not one of the ...
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• Top 10: Zip Codes with Highest Average Amount of Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in 2006

  
  PolicyMap — Authority: 114
  // The Brookings Institution uses data from the IRS to construct a broad database of tax return data, available by ZIP code, city, county, metropolitan area, state, state legislative district, and congressional district, for every year from 2000 to 2006. The data is available in PolicyMap in the "Money & Income" ...
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• Dems Agenda Rubs Against Publics Grain

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Rushing to lock the nation into expensive health care and climate change commitments, Democrats are in an understandable frenzy because public enthusiasm for both crusades has been inversely proportional to the time the public has had to think about them. And the president pushing this agenda has, with his incontinent ...
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• Metros where employment is growing

  
  The Work Buzz — Authority: 474
  I’m probably as sick of writing about job loss as you are reading about it. Today I have some good news to report. Yesterday, the Brookings Institute released the Q3 edition of its MetroMonitor, a “quarterly, interactive barometer of the health of America’s 100 largest metropolitan economies.” The ...
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• Days of plain, boring banking are over

  
  Money employment & careers - money-employment.marc8.com — Authority: 150
  Why is so much of what happens in the economy still tied up with Wall Streets banks? Douglas Elliott of the Brookings Institution talks with Kai Ryssdal about when that might change.
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• Opposition to Dept. of Education Rezoning Proposal

  
  NYS Assembly Member Micah Kellner — Authority: 103
  The Upper East Side has faced a steadily worsening overcrowding crisis for the past several years. Schools have been forced to convert art rooms, libraries, and even closets into instructional space to keep pace with rising enrollments. A number of new school projects on the Upper East Side are already or will soon ...
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• Political Economy: Avoiding False Choices (CQPolitics.com)

  
  enUws — Authority: 171
  CQPolitics.com – It’s unlikely there will ever be broad agreement across this polarized land with President Obama’s assertion in … More here: (CQPolitics.com)"> (CQPolitics.com)">Political Economy: Avoiding False Choices (CQPolitics.com)
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• OMB’s Orzag Was Against Deficits Before He Was For Them

  
  Big Government — Authority: 823
  Just came across some rather grim analysis of the economic impact of massive, ongoing federal budget deficits from a group of prominent economists. It’s a little dated (2004) but still highly relevant considering that the deficit situation has dramatically worsened since then. Some highlights: Substantial ongoing ...
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• Goldman Sachs to pay $20 billion bonuses in stock, not cash

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 653
  Filed under: JPMorgan Chase (JPM) , Goldman Sachs Group (GS) , Recession , Financial Crisis Maybe Goldman Sachs ( GS ) does care what outsiders think about it. The company has come under plenty of fire this year for its post-financial crisis bonus payments, especially after having accepted TARP money from the ...
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• Obama Refuses To Take Any Responsibility For His Failing Presidency

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 132
  There comes that moment in every great man’s life when he realizes that it’s time to put up or shut up. Obama hasn’t reached that moment yet.  And I personally don’t believe he ever will.  Or even can. Obama gave a speech at the Brookings Institute yesterday, December 8.  He said : One of the central ...
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• Universal Health Care, Mark McClellan

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 157
  Mark McClellan, Director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Senior Fellow of Economic Studies, and Leonard D. Shaeffer Director’s Chair in Health Policy Studies at the Brookings Institute, discusses the topic of Universal Health Care . (2/14/08) rockefeller.dartmouth.edu … Dartmouth College ...
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• Obama’s Four Flimsy Budget Cutting Ideas

  
  Big Government — Authority: 823
  President Obama, in his speech on the economy , given at the Bookings Institute, once again, tried to be all things to all people.  Most of the speech was aimed at the dwindling number of devotees who were anxious to hear that additional taxpayer revenues would continue to flow to favored, pet projects. Nor were ...
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