Executive Summary

This document provides context for the 2006 Texas Water Quality Inventory Waller Creek data sheetWaller Creek Working Grou

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Includes: The Changing Relationship Between Federal, State and Local Governments, by Tim Penny; The Implications of Changing Federalism: County View, by Barbara Sheen Todd; The Implications of Changing Federalism State View, by Tom Stinson; Shaping National Values: A Non-Profit Perspective, by David Mathews; The Role of Religion in Public Policy Debate, by Gary Farley; Does the Press Shape or Reflect National Values? by Hasso Hering; What Does it Mean? by Daryll Ray; Implications of the 1996 Farm Bill-Comments, by Chuck Hassebrook; Implications of the 1996 Farm Bill-Another Comment, by John M. Schnittker; The Changing Work Force and Implications for Work and Family, by Cali Williams; Work-Life: An Interplay of Issues, by Patricia Hendel; Forms of Property Rights and the Impacts of Changing Ownership, by Bonnie McCay; Common Property Issues and Alaska's Bering Sea Communities, by Larry Merculieff; Maine's Lobster Fishery - Managing a Common Property Resource, by James WilsonAgricultural and Food Policy,

Entrepreneurship Summit Executive Summary

Summarizes discussions from an April 2008 conference on the core components of an effective entrepreneurship support program, policy options for building an infrastructure that fosters innovation, and concepts to be explored, such as "economic gardening.

An Assessment of Methods and Findings of the New York City Economic Development Corporation's Living Wage Study

In this research brief, we provide an initial assessment of the executive summary of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC)'s living wage study, The Economic Impact on New York City of Proposed Living Wage Mandate: Key Findings, released May 9, 2011 (hereafter "the EDC "study summary"). The study is being conducted for EDC by Charles River Associates and a staff of consultant economists.We emphasize that the executive summary provided by EDC omits many details about the methodology and data used and the basis for its conclusions, making a definitive assessment impossible at this time. However, even the limited explanation presented in the executive summary reveals a series of fundamental errors in methodology and analysis