Why It's Great to Be the Boss

It pays to be the boss, in more ways than one. This report finds that in addition to bigger paychecks, America's bosses are more satisfied with their family life, jobs and overall financial situation than are non-managerial employees

Walking Away: A Third of the Public Says It's Sometimes OK to Stop Paying a Mortgage

Presents survey findings on the prevalence of "underwater" mortgages and views of those who stop payments and allow for foreclosure, analyzed by gender, race/ethnicity, age, region, education, political affiliation, and financial and homeownership status

America's Four Middle Classes

Presents survey findings on the attitudes, outlook, and financial status of four groups among the middle class -- top-of-the-class, satisfied, anxious, and struggling -- and each group's composition by demographics, education, and income

Industrial production and capacity utilization: recent developments and the 1999 annual revision

In late 1999, the Federal Reserve published revised measures of industrial production, capacity, and capacity utilization for the period January 1992 through October 1999. The updated measures reflect both the incorporation of newly available, more comprehensive source data typical of annual revisions and the introduction of improved methods for compiling a few series, including computer and office equipment and motor vehicles. The new source data are for recent years, primarily from 1997 on, and the modified methods affect data beginning in 1992. ; The production index for the third quarter of 1999 is at 137.7 percent of output in 1992, compared with 135.2 percent reported before the annual revision, and the capacity index is 170.7 percent of output in 1992, compared with 167.9 percent reported previously. As a result, the rate of industrial capacity utilization was revised up 0.1 percentage point, to 80.7 percent for the third quarter of 1999.Industrial production index ; Industrial capacity

Nonlinear Rescaling of Control Laws with Application to Stabilization in the Presence of Magnitude Saturation

Motivated by some recent results on the stabilization of homogeneous systems, we present a gain-scheduling approach for the stabilization of non-linear systems. Given a one-parameter family of stabilizing feedbacks and associated Lyapunov functions, we show how the parameter can be rescaled as a function of the state to give a new stabilizing controller. In the case of homogeneous systems, we obtain generalizations of some existing results. We show that this approach can also be applied to nonhomogeneous systems. In particular, the main application considered in this paper is to the problem of stabilization with magnitude limitations. For this problem, we develop a design method for single-input controllable systems with eigenvalues in the left closed plane

L’approche locale et communautaire au développement économique des zones défavorisées : le cas de Montréal

Cet article traite du développement économique local et communautaire. Dans la première partie, les auteurs présentent les principales caractéristiques de cette approche et examinent, sur le plan théorique, ses mécanismes de fonctionnement. Dans la seconde partie, ils dressent un portrait des zones de pauvreté à Montréal et se penchent sur l'action des trois premières corporations de développement économique et communautaire mises sur pied dans ces zones.This article concerns community economic development. In the first section, the main characteristics of this approach and its theoretical underpinnings are examined. In the second section, a portrait of zones of poverty in Montréal is presented, followed by an analysis of the interventions of the first three community economic development corporations created in these areas

Inside the Middle Class: Bad Times Hit the Good Life

Discusses survey results about the standard of living, sense of progress and mobility, economic behaviors, anxieties and aspirations, and social and political values of the American middle class. Also examines trends in demographic and income data

Habiter à Bamako : conditions de logement et réponses des ménages dans une ville sahélienne

Cet article porte sur les conditions d'habitation des ménages vivant à Bamako, la capitale du Mali. À l'aide de deux indices se rapportant à la nature des matériaux de construction et à la disponibilité des services urbains, nous faisons d'abord ressortir une différenciation des conditions d'habitation dans l'espace bamakois, mais aussi une diffusion du caractère rudimentaire de ces conditions sur l'ensemble du territoire de la ville. Il se dégage ensuite de notre analyse que les conditions d'habitation sommaires ne sont pas réservées qu'aux seuls locataires, mais constituent également le lot d'un pourcentage élevé de propriétaires-occupants, la proportion des locataires et des propriétaires concernés variant cependant d'un type de quartiers à l'autre. Enfin, nous examinons deux types de réponses des ménages face à leurs conditions d'habitation, à savoir modifier leur logement ou le quitter, en dégageant une nette différence entre locataires et propriétaires.This article addresses the housing conditions in Bamako, the capital of Mali. Referring to the building materials and the availability of urban services, we first outline a diffentiation in housing conditions within the territory of the city, while underscoring the rudimentary nature of these conditions throughout this territory. Then, we show that these rudimentary housing conditions are not limited to tenants, but also concern a significant proportion of owner-occupiers. However the proportion of the tenants and owner-occupiers concerned varies from one type of neighbourhood to another. Finally, we examine two types of households' answers relating to their housing conditions, transforming their dwelling or moving, and we point out a difference between tenants and owner-occupiers