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American Time Use Survey Home Page The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) measures the amount of time people spend doing various activities, such as paid work, childcare, volunteering, and socializing. In 2015, 38% of workers in management do some work from home on days they work In 2015, 38 percent of workers in management, business, and financial operations occupations, and 35 percent of workers in professional and related occupations, did some or all of their work from home on days they worked.

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Americans for Tax Fairness » Corporate Tax Dodger Trading Cards Corporate Tax Dodger Trading Cards Leading up to Tax Day, April 15, Americans for Tax Fairness is calling attention to 10 corporations that are dodging paying their fair share of taxes. We are releasing a set of Corporate Tax Dodger Trading Cards to explain their tricks of the trade. The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families (Part 1) The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths. But their monopoly over the global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch. According to company 10K filings to the SEC, the Four Horsemen of Banking are among the top ten stock holders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation. [1] So who then are the stockholders in these money center banks? This information is guarded much more closely.

The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission Release FCPA Resource Guide Office of Public Affairs Wednesday, November 14, 2012 The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission Release FCPA Resource Guide The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today released A Resource Guide to the U.S. All About Strategic Planning Pro Bono, Online Program to Learn Strategic Planning Facilitation The Consultants Development Institute's Series Facilitating Strategic Planning provides free online courses, downloadable tools and interaction with faculty to learn the core skills to facilitate strategic planning for any kind of organization. Enrollment is unlimited. Sections of This Topic Include

Enduring Voices Project, Endangered Languages, Map, Facts, Photos, Videos Explore Talking Dictionaries The Enduring Voices team is pleased to present these Talking Dictionaries, giving listeners around the world a chance to hear some of the most little-known sounds of human speech. Several communities are now offering the online record of their language to be shared by any interested person around the world. While you probably won't walk away from these Talking Dictionaries knowing how to speak a new language, you will encounter fascinating and beautiful sounds--forms of human speech you've never heard before--and through them, get a further glimpse into the rich diversity of culture and experience that humans have created in every part of the globe. Explore the Talking Dictionaries for yourself. Losing Our World's Languages

The Fed Audit - $16 TRILLION in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. An amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders to the Wall Street reform law passed one year ago this week directed the Government Accountability Office to conduct the study. Board of Directors The Board is responsible for determining the strategic and policy direction of the BIS, supervising the management, and fulfilling the specific tasks given to it by the Bank's Statutes. It meets at least six times a year. Four advisory committees assist the Board in its work: The Administrative Committee reviews key areas of the Bank's administration, such as budget and expenditures, HR policies and IT. The Committee's Chairman is Jens Weidmann. The Audit Committee meets with internal and external auditors, as well as with the compliance unit.

Marks on Governance Norman Marks, CRMA, CPA, is a vice president for SAP and has been a chief audit executive and chief risk officer at major global corporations for more than 20 years. PwC has completed and published their 2012 Annual Corporate Directors Survey. Their overall comment is that “progress [has been] made, but challenges persist.” I am not sure that they got this right, as my observations as I look at the data are sometimes different from theirs.

Strategic Management The Strategic Planning ProcessAn overview of the strategic planning process including mission statement, environmental scan, strategy formulation, implementation, and control. Business Vision and Mission StatementUses a framework proposed by Collins and Porras to describe three components of business vision including core values, core purpose, and visionary goals. Hierarchical Levels of StrategyDescribes the role of strategy at the corporate level, business unit level, and functional or department level of the firm. PEST AnalysisHow a PEST analysis fits into the environmental scan. Provides some examples of the political, economic, social, and technological factors of the external macroenvironment.

Fighting Against Apartheid: The Activism of Fatima Meer UN photo This lesson is an online supplement to the curriculum unit Freedom in Our Lifetime: South Africa's Struggle. Objectives Students will: Consider what it was like to live in South Africa under apartheid.Hear firsthand from a South African anti-apartheid activist.Examine the ways in which one activist worked to achieve justice and equality in South Africa. Money, Power and Wall Street Did the Fed’s Emergency Lending Prop Up “Too Big to Fail”? May 1, 2012, 8:44 pm ET · by Azmat Khan The Obama administration arrived in Washington in early 2009 facing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression — and an American public outraged by bailouts for the financial institutions that had gotten them there. Pioneer Behind Credit Derivatives is Leaving JPMorgan April 3, 2014, 4:16 pm ET · by Jason M.