The ACT study also points to a gap between the kinds of careers students say they want to pursue and the kinds of jobs that will likely be open to them.
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The Debit Interchange Fee Study Act is up against sizeable opposition in Congress, though Bernanke and FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair expressed their doubts about interchange fee caps.
Despite repeated opposition claims that small business will bear a heavy burden as a result of the Affordable Care Act, a study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine conducted by the non-partisan, non-profit Rand Corporation and based on sophisticated computer modeling, reveals something quite to the contrary.
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The Institute has taught us a lot about adjusting the ratios on the well-known "plan-do-study-act" cycle.
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The Dodd-Frank financial reform act required the SEC to study ways to beef up investment advisor oversight.
As the market absorbs this change, required by the Jobs Act, regulators can then study the impact and make any necessary adjustments prior to the broader loosening of the restrictions for all Regulation D, 506 offerings.
These particles are notoriously difficult to study because the mere act of observing them alters their behavior.
While many believe that long sentences act as a deterrent, there is no study that supports this among white-collar offenders.
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Although it was largely ignored at the time, that study led to the 1988 Welfare Reform Act, which for the first time recognised a father's duty to support his children (and a mother's responsibility to find a job).
And especially the young people who are here, we need you to act with a sense of urgency -- to study and work and create as if the fate of the country depends on you -- because it does.
"What I firmly believe is that financial risk-taking is a profoundly physical act, " says John Coates who jointly ran the study and is himself a former bank trader.
Mr. LEE HAMILTON (Co-chair, Iraq Study Group): The government of Iraq must act.
Under the recently adopted Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC has been tasked with producing a comprehensive study on whether the standards to which a broker is held should be raised to the higher level historically expected from an investment adviser.
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Since I had the Treasury II proposals umpteen times, nothing in the Act surprised me (I later came to regret my intense study of Treasury II, because I would sometimes get confused about what did and did not get into the Act), I played a big role in planning the transition for our clients.
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The story of how Saatchi lost the plot in the late 1980s and early '90s is itself a case study in being led astray by still trying to act a part in a play that ended a while back, but what's equally interesting is how the company was able to rethink its plot, as Saatchi's chief executive, Kevin Roberts, has noted in his blog.
The study comes less than 15 months before the Affordable Care Act is expected to bring broader medical care coverage to 30 million Americans who do not have health insurance.
Given looming cuts in Medicare payments to providers, a little-noticed study of the impact of payment cuts in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 is even more intriguing.
However, as made clear by the findings of this landmark study, there is too much at stake for us not to act now.
Some day it will be a study in how states can louse up anything, and how states failing to act together can louse up everything.
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The study came about because the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act directed the CFBP to compare credit scores sold to consumers and lenders.
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Sadly, like most other disciplines involving human behavior, the field has taken an empirical, often commercialized turn so that now we study communications instrumentally, always with some discrete end in mind for every communicative act.
Riley worked hard to lobby support for his Education Improvement Act, described as the most comprehensive educational reform measure in the country in a RAND Corporation study.
The Pew Health Group study released last week analyzed and compared the credit card marketplace before and after the CARD Act.
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But a new study from the University of California, San Diego shows that there are often observers to the act of mirroring, and under certain circumstances these observers may think less of the person who mimics another.
The Dodd Frank legislation aimed to change this, by requiring the Securities and Exchange Commission to study the possibility of having something called the fiduciary standard, that is, the requirement to act in their clients best interests, apply to all sellers of financial services, not just investment advisers as the law currently reads.
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