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Blank Named Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow By American Academy of Political and Social Science

Submitted on May 13, 2010 - 12:00am
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Washington, DC- Under Secretary Blank was inducted as an Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow by the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The event was held at the Newseum in Washington, DC. In appointing its first set of Fellows in 2000, the Academy sought to recognize and honor individual social scientists for their distinguished scholarship in the social sciences, sustained efforts to communicate that scholarship to audiences beyond their own discipline, and professional activities that promise to continue to promote the progress of the social sciences. Each Fellow is designated to a position named after a distinguished scholar and public servant.

New Commerce Department Reports Lay Foundation for Measuring Green Economy, Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Submitted on May 10, 2010 - 4:35pm
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Washington, DC - The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economics and Statistics Administration today released two new reports: one that defines and measures the size and scope of the green economy and another that looks at the ways in which the American economy's greenhouse gas emissions have changed over the past decade. Together, they provide valuable analytic tools needed to understand the emerging green economy, quantify greenhouse gas emissions and help inform future policy decisions.

Report on Gross Domestic Product Statistics for Four U.S. Territories Released

Submitted on May 5, 2010 - 12:00am
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Washington, DC—The U.S. Department of Commerce released newly-developed Gross Domestic Product (GDP) statistics for American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The statistics are a product of a joint effort of the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Interior Department’s Office of Insular Affairs. Policy makers will now have an objective view of the size of these economies, their growth or contraction, and their major components in order to conduct economic-impact analysis on the effects of local and national policy decisions. (More)