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Cities with the Most College-Educated Residents
Share of residents with college degrees in the 100 largest metro areas, based on data from the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.

demographics

Mary Nguyen

A study published earlier this year by Education Sector, a research group based in Washington, shows that the borrowers who drop out are more than four times more likely than those who graduate to default on their college loans because they are more likely to be unemployed and earn less when they get a job. The study, based on Department of Education data, compares student borrowers who entered college in 1995 with those who entered in 2003 to see how each group fared six years later. Students who were not enrolled and did not earn degrees after six years were classified as dropouts.




http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/opinion/heavy-debt-but-no-degree.html

economics policy education

Retail Clinics and Drugstore Medicine

Viewpoint | May 23/30, 2012
Christine K. Cassel, MD
JAMA 2012;307(20):2151-2152
Easy access to medical clinics in retail settings is gaining momentum in the United States. While criticized in some quarters, these clinics are successful as measured by patient satisfaction and quality scores. Retail clinics hold potential for a uniquely US solution to the problem of access to primary care. Although questions remain about their future, evidence suggests that retail clinics may have an important role in US health care.

pharmacy

Robert E Litan
Big Data Can Save Health Care—But at What Cost to Privacy?
MAY 25 2012, 10:32 AM ET

privacy

That is why I wrote a recent column about a persuasive paper by Karen Petrou, a banking expert, in which she argued that Dodd-Frank was creating a new kind of risk that she labeled “complexity risk.” And it is why, last week, I found myself drawn to an article in the June issue of The Harvard Business Review that argued for a handful of simpler ways to restrain banking behavior.

The article, entitled “Four Ways to Fix Banks,” was written by Sallie Krawcheck. At 47, Krawcheck has been through the banking wars. She had several high-level jobs at Citigroup, including chief financial officer; most recently, she successfully ran Merrill Lynch’s huge brokerage operation for Bank of America. (She left last September.)

economics policy

New Tech City
Riding a wave of start-ups, New York has emerged as a national leader in fields that leverage the Internet and mobile technologies—a development that has provided a key economic boost and left the city well positioned for future tech growth
by Jonathan Bowles and David Giles

See also:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/28/us/politics/campaigning-tests-obamas-staying-power.html
Obama Finds Campaigning Rules Clock
By PETER BAKER
Published: May 27, 2012




His messages have an improvisational feel at times. On the flight to Colorado last week, Jay Carney, his press secretary, read him an online column concluding that he has presided over slower growth in federal spending than any president since Dwight D. Eisenhower. Mr. Obama liked it so much he inserted it into his campaign speech.




Just like that, an online column, rather than a detailed study by a budget office, became fodder for his argument. “Since I’ve been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years,” he told supporters in a hotel ballroom in Denver. What he did not say is that the calculation did not count significant spending in his early months in office and assumed future cuts that he opposes.

politics

Overview of status of retirement plans. Cited in NYTimes 5/28/2012

retirement

May 25, 2012
Summarizes Health Care Index and proposes two radically different reactions.

policy

WHICH WORKPLACE SURFACES HARBOR THE MOST GERMS?
DESKS HAVE 400 TIMES MORE GERMS THAN TOILET SEATS
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May 24, 2012

Clinical-Informatics board-certification

Clinical-Informatics board-certification

Clinical-Informatics board-certification

Clinical-Informatics board-certification

Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People
May 23, 2012

Jill Horwitz and Helen Levy discuss economic foundations of health care markets and relevant briefs submitted to the Supreme Court

May 23, 2012

economics policy

Economic Effects of Reducing the Fiscal Restraint That Is Scheduled to Occur in 2013

CBO

Comparative Effectiveness and Health Care Spending — Implications for Reform
Milton C. Weinstein, Ph.D., and Jonathan A. Skinner, Ph.D.
N Engl J Med 2010; 362:460-465February 4, 2010

economics comparative-effectiveness

Gretchen Morgenson
NY Times
May 19, 2012
Nevertheless, an accurate accounting of the 2008 rescues should include the value of the bailout subsidy provided by the taxpayers, as well as a hard-nosed cost-benefit analysis. Unfortunately, neither was included in a recent United States Treasury analysis of the various rescue programs, including TARP.

nytimes

ontology