After many consumers complained of unexpected charges on their wireless phone bill, the Federal Communications Commission initially proposed new rules to help address the situation. However, due to the efforts of the wireless phone company trade association (CTIA), the FCC has agreed to voluntary guidelines instead. On Monday, at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., FCC, CTIA and Consumers Union representatives announced the agreement regarding wireless telephone billing guidelines. CTIA represents wireless phone companies serving 97 percent of the nation's wireless customers. The Consumers Union is the public policy and advocacy division of Consumer Reports.
Great Lakes metro areas such as the Buffalo Niagara region are effectively using exports to bolster their economies, but their manufacturers need to become more innovative to make the most of foreign sales and create jobs, a new study says. The report, prepared by the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., also found that Buffalo Niagara performs well in exporting services, a category expected to grow.
MARINA DEL REY, Calif., Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Richard Merkin, President and CEO of Heritage Provider Network, is pleased to announce a gift to The Brookings Institution in Washington DC, to fund the Dr. Richard Merkin Initiative on Payment Reform and Clinical Leadership at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings. The donation will support two full time scholars who will study ways we can reform the health care payment system, as well as how to increase the leadership skills of clinicians. Real health care reform requires clinician leadership and this new initiative will bring together clinical expertise and the potential for policy impact," said Dr. Mark McClellan, Director of the Engelberg Center and Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies, and...
Diane Ravitch was a Democrat when she was asked to join the administration of President George H.W. Bush as assistant secretary of Education, where she led the federal effort to promote the creation of state and national academic standards. She later left the Democratic Party and registered as an independent. A research professor of education at New York University, she is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Rochester's economy ranks among some of the best in the country. That's according to a report from the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit public policy organization.
Richmond County faces this predicament if it wants to make a dent in its high poverty rate: It needs to recruit higher-paying jobs, but those middle class income jobs are disappearing from the economy. In recent years, Augusta has landed about 2,000 customer-service- sector jobs at companies such as Teleperformance, T-Mobile and ADP. But these jobs pay, on average, $11.78 an hour in the Augusta metro area, according to the 2009 Georgia Wage Survey. They are solid jobs, but they don't pay enough to help a person reach middle class status, said Gary Burtless, an economist at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
A report on America's older industrial cities issued last week by the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank, presented a dour picture of the lack of progress in Connecticut's three largest cities. While the report noted that, "On the whole, America's central cities are coming back," New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford were cited as examples of urban centers that haven't.
The Pittsburgh region attracts the most highly skilled group of immigrants in the United States, according to a study being released today by the Brookings Institution. The report from the Washington, D.C., think tank found that 53.6 percent of immigrants in the region are highly skilled. About 13.7 percent of the region's foreign-born residents are considered low- skilled, with the rest being "balanced" in skill.
Utah's "Junction City" is among the Intermountain West's metropolitan areas recovering strongest from the prolonged economic recession, according to a newly released report. Brookings Mountain West, a new initiative of the Brookings Institution, based in Washington, D.C., and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, has listed Ogden among the highest-rated metro areas in the region based on numerous factors, including employment, housing and education.
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