State Higher Education Funding

Washington State.

Office of Financial Management.
• Washington State Budget Process. Aug. 2011.
  
  
• Office of the Governor. Budget Reduction Alternatives. Oct. 2011.
  
  
• fiscal.wa.gov - Washington State Fiscal Information. A collaboration with the Legislative Evaluation and Accountability Program (LEAP) Committee with the "intent that state revenue and expenditure data be made as open, transparent, and publicly accessible as is feasible."


Legislative Evaluation and Accountability Program (LEAP)


• Washington State Operating Budget: Briefing Book. Jan. 2011.
  
  
• A Citizen’s Guide to the Washington State Budget. 2011.

State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
• Operating Budget.
  
  
• Capital Budget.
  
  
• Legislative Session.

National Council of State Governors:

• The Critical Link Between Higher Education and Economic Development. NCSL Legislative Summit: Aug. 10, 2011. Video requires Microsoft Silverlight, a free web-browser plug-in.
  
  
• Higher Education Legislation in 2011. State by State compilation of significant legislative initiatives related to higher education.

National Debt

FACTS.com

• Key Issue: Budget and the National Debt. World News Digest. Facts On File News Services. Last updated June 2011.
• Focus On: The U.S. Federal Budget and National Debt (Research Feature)." World News Digest. Facts On File News Services, May 2011.
• Reuters News (Today). Reuters. World News Digest. Facts On File News Services.

CQ Researcher

• Clemmitt, Marcia. "National Debt: Are higher taxes needed to reduce the debt?" CQ Researcher 18 Mar. 2011.
  Washington is wracked this year by intense budget politics. Spurred by the conservative Tea Party movement, Republican lawmakers point to the federal government's $14 trillion debt as an emergency that demands big cuts in domestic programs, including Social Security, plus tax cuts they say will spur economic growth. But Democrats say government spending is needed to sustain the economy while the private sector struggles back to health. They call for government investment in infrastructure and education, plus tax increases to strengthen programs such as Social Security for future generations. A decade ago the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted that the federal government would run a $796 billion surplus in 2010, but that rosy future never materialized. Over the past 10 years, a severe recession, tax cuts and spending on two wars put the federal government, and also the states, deeply in the red. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.
  
  
• Clemmitt, Marcia. "The National Debt: Has it gotten too big?" CQ Researcher 14 Nov. 2008.
  With the national debt now more than $10 trillion — twice what it was eight years ago — the country faces a dire financial future, some analysts argue. Over the past eight years, the Bush administration has run larger and larger annual deficits, adding to the national debt and restricting the government's ability to respond to a new crisis. Now, with the U.S. and global financial meltdown ushering in a potentially catastrophic economic slowdown, the next president — newly elected Sen. Barack Obama — will be under pressure to use government fiscal policy, such as tax cuts and government spending, to bolster the economy, even though those actions will raise the debt further. Besides wrestling with that dilemma, the new president also must face the question of how to pay for spiraling Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits for the nation's 77 million baby boomers.
  From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Articles

EBSCOhost
SU ( debt* or budget deficit* ) and ( federal or national or public ) and GE united states

ProQuest
SU(National debt or budget deficits) AND SU(federal budget) AND GEO(united states)

Reference

Gale Virtual Reference Library: Entries related to national debt or budget deficits from several scholarly encyclopedias covering law, social sciences and history.

Ebrary

Figgie, Harry E. & Gerald J. Swanson. America the Broke : How the Reckless Spending of the White House and Congress Are Bankrupting Our Country and Destroying Our Children's Future. Doubleday Publishing, 2004.

Rivlin, Alice M. & Isabel V. Sawhill. Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2005 : Meeting the Long-Run Challenge. Brookings Institution Press, 2005.

Rivlin, Alice M. & Isabel V. Sawhill. Restoring Fiscal Sanity: How to Balance the Budget. Brookings Institution Press, 2004.

Rivlin, Alice M. & Joseph R. Antos. Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007 : The Health Spending Challenge. Brookings Institution Press, 2007.

Shaviro, Daniel N. Do Deficits Matter? Univ. of Chicago, 1997.

Wright, Robert E. One Nation Under Debt : Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe. McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Yarrow, Andrew L. Forgive Us Our Debts : The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility. Yale UP, 2008.

Search Ebrary directly for more titles on national debt or budget deficits.

Web

United States. House of Representatives. Committee on Rules. Budget Control Act (Amended version reflecting announcement of July 31, 2011).

United States. Congressional Budget Office. "CBO Analysis of August 1 Budget Control Act." Summary. 1 Aug. 2011. Links to entire document and blog post.

United States. House of Representatives. Committee on Rules. "Section-by-Section Analysis of the Budget Control Act of 2011 as Announced on July 31, 2011."

Immigration - United States

Greenblatt, Alan. "Immigration Debate." CQ Researcher 1 Feb. 2008: 97-120.
(Updated: December 10, 2010)

Karaim, Reed. "America's Border Fence." CQ Researcher 19 Sep. 2008.
Will it stem the flow of illegal immigrants? America is rushing to build 670 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexican border by the end of the year. The fence — or wall, as critics along the border call it — is to include 370 miles of fencing intended to stop illegal immigrants on foot and 300 miles of vehicle barriers. To speed construction, the Bush administration is using unprecedented authority granted by Congress to waive environmental-, historic- and cultural-protection laws. No one claims that building physical barriers along roughly a third of America's 2,000-mile Southern border will stem illegal immigration by itself, but supporters believe it is an essential first step in "securing the border," providing a critical line of defense against illegal migration, drug smugglers and even terrorists. Opponents see it as a multi-billion-dollar waste that will only shift illegal immigrants toward more dangerous and difficult routes into the country, while doing environmental, cultural and economic damage.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Facts.com:
Research Feature: Immigration Debate (Note the Key News Events links on the left)
Key Issue: Immigration

ProQuest:
(border) AND SU(immigra*) AND (fence*) (550+ articles)

EBSCOhost:
(immigra* OR alien*) AND illegal AND (employer* OR job* OR labor) AND united states
(Limited to Full Text and CBC Title Collection)
direct link to search results (450+ articles)

CBC Library Catalog: sample searches
“united states immigration” (200+ books as of Jan. 2011)

"open immigra" (9 books as of Jan 20, 2011)

LeMay, Michael C. U.S. Immigration: a reference handbook. Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-Clio, 2003.

Gale Virtual Reference: immigration AND "United States"

Daily Life Online: immigration and united states

Opposing Views on the Web:
(Note: These are just a few examples.)

Anthony Gregory, "In Defense of Open Immigration", Freedom Daily, January 21, 2005.

Stephen Cox, "The Fallacy of Open Immigration," Liberty, October 1, 2006.

Steven A. Camarota, "Immigration Is Hurting the U.S. Worker," Americas Quarterly,Spring 2007.

Daniel T. Griswold, "Immigration Law Should Reflect Our Dynamic Labor Market", The Dallas Morning News, April 27, 2008.

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Jobs & the American Economy

English 102 - Figueroa - Class Topic Spring 2010

Katel, Peter. "Jobs in the Future: Is a College Education Important?" CQ Researcher, 4 June 2010.
American workers — and their jobless counterparts — are still absorbing the blows of the Great Recession. The economy has finally started to grow again, but more than 8 million jobs that disappeared after the economic crisis began in late 2007 haven't returned. People who do have jobs are working harder. Increased productivity is only one of several major changes on the job front. As technology advances, the competitive environment for U.S. workers is intensifying. American employers now can hire people halfway across the globe to perform skilled tasks — interpreting downloaded X-ray pictures, for example. Experts argue over how many jobs are at risk, but no one disputes that young people are better off with advanced schooling that builds analytical capacity, allowing them to switch careers if necessary. As for lesser-educated workers, demand is rising at the low end of the market. Jobs that fall in between the two extremes may be most at risk.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Boolean/Phrase Search Techniques:

• Truncation: econom* (beginning with this) = economy, economic, etc.
• Or Statements: employ* or unemploy* = any of these, broadens
• And Statements: econom* and United States = all of these, narrows
• Phrases: United States = only this, very narrow
• Grouping: (employ* or unemploy*) and United States = do the part in parentheses first – or use ‘Advanced Search’ and put different concepts on different lines

EBSCOhost Boolean/phrase search:

( labor supply or unemployment or employment ) and (recession* or econom*) and united states - 4300+ full text articles

Research questions this attempts to answer:

• What are the impacts of current economic conditions on the labor supply in the United States?
• How has the U.S. recession changed future employment possibilities?
• When will the economic recovery reduce unemployment in the United States?

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ProQuest: (college education or college graduates) AND (employ* or jobs or econom* or labor or workers) AND (united states) - 1700+ full text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals

Facts.com World News Digest:

"The Economic Downturn: From Credit Crunch to Global Recession." World News Digest. Facts On File News Services, Jan. 2009. Research feature offering an overview and links to articles arranged by subtopic and date.

Books

Ebrary: Subject ("labor market" OR "labor supply" OR "job creation" OR unemployment OR employment) and Subject ("United States) - 50 ebooks

Financial Literacy: Consumer Credit and Debt

CBC Foundation Hosts Financial Forums: A Reality Check: Life Happens (Oct. 13 - Nov. 17 2009) - on Tuesdays at 11:30 AM and 12:30 PM for the next six weeks in the HUB Congress room. Learn about budgeting, balancing, credit, investing, identity theft and more (see schedule for individual session descriptions and times). All free thanks to the Foundation and their community sponsors.

Billitteri, Thomas J. "Financial Literacy: Should courses be mandatory in schools?." CQ Researcher September 4, 2009.
Poor understanding of basic personal-finance and economic issues has left millions of students and adults mired in credit-card debt, prey to unscrupulous mortgage brokers and prone to making risky bets with their retirement money. High-school seniors correctly answer only about half the questions on personal-finance surveys, and those who take personal-finance courses tend to score no better than those who don't. Studies show similar deficits among adults. Yet experts disagree on a solution. Only a handful of states require at least a semester course on personal finance, and some advocates want Congress or state legislatures to mandate financial education for all K-12 students. Others question the effectiveness of financial-literacy programs in schools, and some worry that corporations may have too much influence on curriculum and instruction. A better approach to improving financial literacy, some argue, is to tighten government regulation to make credit cards, mortgages and other products easier to understand.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Regulating Credit Cards." CQ Researcher 18.35 (2008): 817-840.

Mantel, Barbara. "Consumer Debt." CQ Researcher 17.9 (2007): 193-216. CQ Researcher Online. CQ Press. 17 Mar. 2007.

Books at CBC Library

Jasper, Margaret C. Consumer rights law. New York : Oceana, c2008.
Main Collection KF1610 .J37 2008

Jasper, Margaret C. Dealing with debt. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Oceana Publications, 2007.
Main Collection KF1501 .Z95J37 2007

Draut, Tamara. Strapped : why America's 20- and 30-somethings can't get ahead. New York : Anchor Books : 2007.
Main Collection HQ799.7 .D73 2007

Jasper, Margaret C. Identity theft and how to protect yourself. New York: Oceana Publications, c2006.
Main Collection HV6691 .J37 2006

Search for other titles on su:credit cards or su:consumer credit in the CBC Library Catalog

Articles:

Search EBSCOhost on:

• Credit Card Regulations - 240+ full text articles
  
• Credit Cards in general - over 3100 full text articles
  
• Payday Loans - 60+ full text articles
  
• Consumer* AND (credit OR debt) AND United States - 690+ full text articles

Foster, John Bellamy. "The Household Debt Bubble." Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine 58.1 (2006): 1-11. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 17 March 2007. Fox, Jonathan, Bartholomae, Suzanne, and Jinkook Lee. "Building the Case for Financial Education." Journal of Consumer Affairs 39.1 (2005): 195-214. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 17 March 2007. Reviews "programs aimed at improving Americans' financial literacy" and makes recommendations. Garrett, Thomas A. "The Rise in Personal Bankruptcies: The Eighth Federal Reserve District and Beyond." Review 89.1 (2007): 15-37. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 17 March 2007. Examines the factors that have "over the past 100 years" contributed "to the dramatic rise in personal bankruptcy filings seen across the country." Nichols, Nathaniel C. "When Harry Met Sally: Client Counseling under BAPCPA." Widener Law Journal 15.3 (2006): 641-666. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 17 March 2007. Credit cards, consumer spending, and "client counseling under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA)." Reference Articles: Olney, Martha L. "Credit Cards." Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. Vol. 2. 3rd ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. "Credit." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Eds. Jeffrey Lehman and Shirelle Phelps. Vol. 3. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2005.

Economic Crisis & Bailout

Katel, Peter. "Vanishing Jobs." CQ Researcher 13 Mar. 2009.
Will the president's plan reduce unemployment? The news is grim and getting grimmer. The jobless rate recently hit 8.1 percent — the highest level in a quarter-century. American workers lost 651,000 jobs in February alone. All told, more than 12.5 million Americans are jobless — including 2.9 million who have been unemployed for at least 27 weeks. The nation is banking on the Obama administration's newly enacted, $787 billion “economic stimulus” bill to spark job growth through government spending on infrastructure projects and other programs. Conservatives argue that the spending won't help, and some liberals say the magnitude of the crisis calls for still more stimulus money. The huge spending measure also includes funds to encourage states to expand eligibility for unemployment insurance, though some governors are resisting on the grounds that their states will wind up footing future bills. With no quick turnaround predicted, creating or saving jobs will remain the top priority for President Barack Obama and the millions of citizens counting on his administration's rescue plan. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Billitteri, Thomas J. "Middle-Class Squeeze: Is more government aid needed?" CQ Researcher 6 Mar. 2009.

Billitteri, Thomas J. "Financial Bailout: Will U.S. and overseas action stem the global crisis?" CQ Researcher 24 Oct. 2008.

Clemmitt, Marcia. "The National Debt: Has it gotten too big?" CQ Researcher November 14, 2008

Jost, Kenneth. "Financial Crisis: Did Lax Regulation Cause a Credit Meltdown?." CQ Researcher 9 May 2008 : 409-432.

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Mortgage Crisis: Should the government bail out borrowers in trouble?." CQ Researcher 2 Nov. 2007: 913-936.

FACTS.com

The Economic Downturn: From Credit Crunch to Global Recession. Research Feature. World News Digest. Jan. 2009. Facts On File News Services. - Extensive outline with key events and links to relevant articles.

Key Issue: Subprime Mortgage Lending - overview linked to key news events.

Article Searches:

EBSCOhost
SU unemploy* AND GE united states - over 2750 full text articles on the subject "unemployment" (or "unemployed") as it relates to the geographic location "United States"

economic stimulus AND united states

SU (mortgage* or loan*) and subprime

Federal Reserve and SU ( financ* or mortgage* or lend* or credit ) and ( crisis or crises )

CO (FANNIE Mae or freddie mac)

ProQuest
(AIG OR American International Group) AND bonus*

SUBJECT (Bailouts AND Automobile Industry)

SU(subprime lending or predatory lending) AND SU(mortgage*)

SU(subprime lending or predatory lending) AND SU(foreclosure*)

Books
From the CBC Library Catalog on (su:Debt or su:Credit or kw:Mortgages) and su:United States

Ebrary - ebooks
Maynard, Micheline. End of Detroit: How the Big Three Lost Their Grip on the American Car Market. Doubleday, 2004.

Wallison, Peter J. and Bert Ely. Nationalizing Mortgage Risk : The Growth of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2000.

Reference

Oxford Reference Online - Search dictionaries of economics, banking and finance

Guttentag, Jack. Mortgage Encyclopedia. McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Web
Planet Money - NPR.org site for stories related to the economy.

Recovery.gov - Federal economic recovery tracking site, set up by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Recovery.wa.gov - tracks Federal recovery funding for Washington.

Schau, Dean. "Why Bad Things Happen To Good Economies, January 2009." Article on the recession and the Tri-Cities, by CBC Professor and Regional Labor Economist Dean Schau.

Consumer Safety

Weeks, Jennifer. "Regulating Toxic Chemicals: Do we know enough about chemical risks?" CQ Researcher. January 23, 2009.
Chemicals are integral to many everyday products, from electronics and toys to building materials and household goods. But environmental, health and consumer advocates say the agencies responsible for protecting Americans from exposure to harmful chemicals are allowing too many dangerous substances into the market without testing them for toxicity. Some goods, such as medicines, are tested for safety before they can be sold, but many common products do not go through premarket safety screening. Many concerns focus on infants and young children, who are especially sensitive to toxic hazards. Chemical manufacturers say the existing regulatory system works effectively and can be tightened to address new concerns, but critics argue that a precautionary approach — which would require producers to show that materials are safe before they can be marketed — would protect consumers more fully. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Katel, Peter. "Consumer Safety: Do government regulators need more power? " CQ Researcher October 12, 2007.

Articles:

EBSCOhost

(SU product safety or SU consumer protection) and SU product recall) - over 775 articles from magazines and scholarly journals, most in full text

(bpa or bisphenol A) and bottle* - over 100 articles

ProQuest

SU(food safety or product recalls or defective products) AND (united states) - over 3875 full text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals

(peanut* and salmonella) - over 500 full text articles from 2009

Books

Catalog - search food safe

search environment toxic product

Ebrary - over 20 ebooks on food safety or consumer protection

Reference - search Gale Virtual Reference for Consumer Protection OR Food Safety - numerous articles from scholarly encyclopedias

Web

United States. Dept. of Health and Human Svcs. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

United States. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Personal Finance - BUS 120 / 220

Newspapers, Magazines and Journals

Barron's
Better Investing
Business Week
Financial Planning
Forbes
Fortune
Inc.
Journal of Financial Planning
Journal of Taxation
The Kiplinger Letter
The Kiplinger Tax Letter
Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine
Money
National Tax Journal
Taxes
Treasury Bulletin
Trusts & Estates
Wall Street Journal

Books

There are several books on reserve at the CBC Library; titles in the Reserve Reference section are on 1 week loan.

Ebooks

Select titles from Ebrary (more titles are available via an advanced subject search on stocks, investments, estate planning, and related topics):

Clifford, Denis. Estate Planning Basics. Nolo Press, 2007.

Robert, Clyatt. Work Less, Live More : The Way to Semi-Retirement (2nd Edition). Nolo Press, 2007.

Randolph, Mary. 8 Ways to Avoid Probate. Nolo Press, 2006 .

Haacke, Carl. Frenzy : Bubbles, Busts, and How to Come Out Ahead. Palgrave Macmillan,2004.

Hirt, Geoffrey A. & Stanley B. Block. Managing Investments. McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Fontanills, George A. & Tom Gentile. The Stock Market Course. John Wiley, 2001.

You can also access numerous Netlibrary (online) ebooks for Personal Finance, Investing and Retirement. You will need to login to netLibrary and/or create a personal netlibrary account before you can read these from home. You can use our quarterly library database password to get into netlibrary and view/search the books, then create a free personal netlibrary account which will allow you to login with your own username and password, save book titles to an online favorites list, and more!

The public libraries in the Tri-Cities will also have many books on these topics.

Gender Pay Gap

Articles

Billitteri, Thomas J. "Gender Pay Gap: Are women paid fairly in the workplace?" CQ Researcher, March 14, 2008.

More than four decades after Congress passed landmark anti-discrimination legislation — including the Equal Pay Act of 1963 — a debate continues to rage over whether women are paid fairly in the workplace. Contending that gender bias contributes to a significant "pay gap," reformists support proposed federal legislation aimed at bringing women's wages more closely in line with those of men. Others say new laws are not needed because the wage gap largely can be explained by such factors as women's choices of occupation and the amount of time they spend in the labor force. Meanwhile, a class-action suit charging Wal-Mart Stores with gender bias in pay and promotions — the biggest sex-discrimination lawsuit in U.S. history — may be heading for the Supreme Court. Some women's advocates argue that a controversial high-court ruling last year makes it more difficult to sue over wage discrimination.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

EBSCO Search
( pay or wage* or salar* ) and ( equit* or differential* or equal ) and ( gender or sex )

ProQuest Search
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Gale Virtual Reference
"Equal Pay Act of 1963." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Shirelle Phelps and Jeffrey Lehman. Vol. 4. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 186-188.

"Comparable Worth." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Shirelle Phelps and Jeffrey Lehman. Vol. 3. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 49-52.

Student Aid

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Student Aid." CQ Researcher 18.4 (2008): 73-96.

Will many low-income students be left out? With a record number of students hoping to attend college next year — and fees higher than ever — finding a way to pay the bills will be tough for many. Congress and the Bush administration made common cause in 2007 to increase federal Pell Grants for students and reduce some student-loan interest rates. Nevertheless, critics say the increases won't go far enough. To help middle-class families, states increasingly offer merit-based grants for college aid. But with merit scholarships replacing need-based aid, low-income and minority students — who often don't have the grades for scholarships — are finding their college dreams harder to realize. Meanwhile, longtime concern that private lenders rake in excess profits from their high-interest student loans has reached new heights. Investigations of student lending are being conducted in several states, even as universities and lenders settle allegations of loan fraud with New York's attorney general.

From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

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( student aid* or financial aid* or grants or scholarship* ) and ( need based or merit based or low-income ) -EBSCOhost, 800+ full text articles


(student aid or financial aid or SCHOLARSHIP* or grants) AND (merit based or need based or low income) -ProQuest, 5000+ full text articles

Books from the CBC Library Catalog: (costs or finance or aid or economic) and (college? or "education higher") and "united states"

Mass Transit Boom

Billitteri, Thomas J. "Mass Transit Boom." CQ Researcher 18.3 (2008): 49-72.

Do new systems boost ridership, relieve congestion?Pressed by rising gas prices, highway gridlock and global-warming concerns, cities are spending unprecedented amounts on public transit systems — from streetcars and other "light-rail" lines to commuter trains and rapid-transit buses. They also are experimenting with "congestion-pricing" plans that impose tolls on motorists to induce them to use transit or alter driving habits. While traffic congestion is partly behind the transit boom, it is not the only force driving it. Some light-rail projects are built hand-in-hand with "transit-oriented developments" — walkable, mixed-use projects designed to attract residents, shoppers and office workers to urban neighborhoods. Cities from Portland, Ore., to Charlotte, N.C., have embraced rail projects, but critics argue that such ventures aren't boosting ridership or reducing traffic. Some worry, too, that they benefit the wealthy at the expense of low-income residents whose needs may not be well-served by new rail lines.

From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

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(mass transit or public transport*) AND (congestion or environment* or econom* )-ProQuest, 4400+ full text articles

( mass transit or public transportation ) and ( congestion or environment* or econom* ) -EBSCOhost, 370+ full text articles

Oil

Katel, Peter. "Oil Jitters." CQ Researcher 18.1 (2008): 1-24.

Vastly increased demand for oil in rapidly modernizing China and India, warfare and instability in the Middle East and the weakening U.S. dollar have revived fears of a new energy crisis. Gasoline shortages — and the accompanying lines at gas stations — were thought to have ended with the Jimmy Carter administration. But as 2008 began, American drivers were paying more than $3 a gallon, and crude oil hit a milestone — $100 a barrel. Some oil experts warn of even bigger price shocks to come as oil-producing nations use more and more of their own oil, and energy demand jumps 50 percent by 2030. Some experts predict an oil "production crunch" within four to five years that will have severe geopolitical and economic impacts, and one expert says the energy supply-demand gap could create "social chaos and war" by 2020. In any event, the days of cheap, plentiful oil appear to be over, and motorists may have to learn how to conserve energy.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

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SU(oil or gas or petroleum) AND (conserv* or efficien* or fuel econom*) - ProQuest, 6000+ full text articles

(gasoline or petroleum) AND united states - EBSCOhost, 5000+ articles

(gasoline or petroleum) AND united states - EBSCOhost, 350+ scholarly journal articles

Books:

Margonelli, Lisa. Oil on the brain : adventures from the pump to the pipeline. New York: Doubleday, 2007. HD9560.5 .M3185 2007

Tertzakian, Peter. A thousand barrels a second : the coming oil break point and the challenges facing an energy dependent world. New York : McGraw-Hill, 2006. HD9502 .A2T473 2006

CEO PAY

Billitteri, Thomas J. "Curbing CEO Pay." CQ Researcher 17.10 (2007): 217-240. CQ Press. 12 Mar. 2007 . .

Is executive compensation out of control? This spring's shareholder proxy season promises to trigger fireworks among shareholders. Scores of public companies are under scrutiny from shareholders and politicians for rewarding their chief executive officers with huge pay and severance packages, sometimes despite spectacular management failures. Home Depot's Robert L. Nardelli, for example, received a $210 million severance package in January, while Capital One Financial's Richard D. Fairbank took home $280 million in compensation in 2005. Meanwhile, an investigation is proceeding into the possible manipulation of executive stock options at up to 200 companies. New federal rules requiring companies to disclose once-hidden details of their compensation took effect this year, setting the stage for bitter controversy over corporate pay. A coalition of shareholders is petitioning some 50 corporations for the right to advise their boards on the companies' executive compensation, and the new Democrat-controlled Congress has made moves aimed at curbing pay.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

ProQuest Search: (ceo or executive) and (pay or salar* or compensation) and (shareholder* or stockholder*)