Right of Way Integrated Vegetation Management: Essential to Keep the Us Economy Moving

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 201-206
Author(s):  
John D. Byrd ◽  
Victor Maddox ◽  
David Russell
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Control ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Vegetation Management ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Load Bearing ◽  
Right Of Way ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Land Mass ◽  
The U.S

Transportation and utility rights of way represent an often overlooked yet sizeable land mass across the U.S. that transects diverse topographies and ecosystems. These land uses, along with the necessary safety, drainage, and load bearing features, present unique challenges for vegetation management, especially on transportation rights of way. An integrated approach to vegetation management is essential to maintain the functionality of these corridors and should be part of the initial right of way design, but once constructed, mechanical and chemical control are the primary tactics to manage undesirable vegetation.

scholarly journals Entry Costs and the Macroeconomy

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (233) ◽  
Author(s):  
Germán Gutiérrez ◽  
Callum Jones ◽  
Thomas Philippon
Keyword(s):  
Structural Model ◽  
Micro Data ◽  
Industry Data ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Entry Costs ◽  
The Past ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Entry Regulations ◽  
The U.S

We combine a structural model with cross-sectional micro data to identify the causes and consequences of rising concentration in the US economy. Using asset prices and industry data, we estimate realized and anticipated shocks that drive entry and concentration. We validate our approach by showing that the model-implied entry shocks correlate with independently constructed measures of entry regulations and M&As. We conclude that entry costs have risen in the U.S. over the past 20 years and have depressed capital and consumption by about seven percent.

scholarly journals Job-to-Job Flows and Earnings Growth

2017 ◽  
Vol 107 (5) ◽  
pp. 358-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce K. Hahn ◽  
Henry R. Hyatt ◽  
Hubert P. Janicki ◽  
Stephen R. Tibbets
Keyword(s):  
Average Rate ◽  
Job Flows ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
Earnings Growth ◽  
Data Product ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
The U.S

The US workforce has had little change in real wages, income, or earnings since the year 2000. However, even when there is little change in the average rate at which workers are compensated, individual workers experienced a distribution of wage and earnings changes. In this paper, we demonstrate how earnings evolve in the US economy in the years 2001-2014 on a forthcoming dataset on earnings for stayers and transitioners from the U.S. Census Bureau's Job-to-Job Flows data product. We account for the roles of on-the-job earnings growth, job-to-job flows, and nonemployment in the growth of U.S. earnings.

U.S. African-American Small Business Owners' Leadership Perspectives Around Business Development, Sustainability, and Succession Transition

2021 ◽  
pp. 413-423
Author(s):  
Orna T. Bradley-Swanson ◽  
Darrell Norman Burrell
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Small Business Owners ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Leadership Perspectives ◽  
The U.S

Small businesses produce near 50% of the gross domestic product and are responsible for over 6 out of 10 new jobs. These numbers point to the importance of small business ownership and leadership is important in the US economy. In 2020, there are 124,004 African-American-owned businesses in the U.S. In spite of these numbers, African-American-owned small businesses face tremendous challenges. This exploratory qualitative study examines U.S. African-American small business owners' leadership perspectives around business development, sustainability, and succession transition.

scholarly journals Antitrust’s Implementation Blind Side: Challenges to Major Expansion of U.S. Competition Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-255
Author(s):  
Alison Jones ◽  
William E. Kovacic
Keyword(s):  
Competition Policy ◽  
Blind Side ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
Economic Control ◽  
Failure To Protect ◽  
Power Problem ◽  
Central Tool ◽  
The U.S

For several years, a number of commentators have expressed concern that the U.S. has a growing market power problem. Further that dysfunction in the U.S. antitrust institutions, and their failure to protect competition, has damaged the economy. This Article outlines the principal flaws that this commentary attributes to U.S. antitrust policy (the “crisis in antitrust”), and some of the proposals offered to redirect it and restore it as a central tool of economic control. The paper’s main purpose is not, however, to debate the condition of competition in the US economy or the merits of the measures proposed. Rather, its objective is to identify the magnitude of the implementation challenges that the proposals for a major expansion of the U.S. antitrust program create and the policy implementation challenges that stand between these soaring reform aspirations and their effective realisation in practice. The paper suggests that even though these “implementation” issues are significant, they have been too quickly overlooked in the commentary. In our view the failure to focus on this important matter risks creating a chasm between elevated policy commitments and the capacity of responsible public to produce expected outcomes. The paper consequently acknowledges and addresses this implementation blindside. It analyses the important impediments that are likely, if not carefully addressed, to hamper delivery of the current proposals and proposes ways to overcome them.

Problems of the US Economic Policy

2013 ◽  
pp. 129-143
Author(s):  
V. Klinov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Equitable Distribution ◽  
Investment Rate ◽  
The Us ◽  
Budget Systems ◽  
Enterprise Activity ◽  
The U.S

How to provide for full employment and equitable distribution of incomes and wealth are the keenest issues of the U.S. society. The Democratic and the Republican Parties have elaborated opposing views on economic policy, though both parties are certain that the problems may be resolved through the reform of the federal tax and budget systems. Globalization demands to increase incentives for labor and enterprise activity and for savings to secure proper investment rate. Tax rates for labor and enterprise incomes are to be low, but tax rates for consumption, real estate and land should be progressive.

Palestine Unbound

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-134
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Task Force ◽  
The United States ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
The Us ◽  
Intention To Move ◽  
Arab Israeli Conflict ◽  
The U.S

This section, updated regularly on the blog Palestine Square, covers popular conversations related to the Palestinians and the Arab-Israeli conflict during the quarter 16 November 2017 to 15 February 2018: #JerusalemIstheCapitalofPalestine went viral after U.S. president Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and announced his intention to move the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv. The arrest of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi for slapping an Israeli soldier also prompted a viral campaign under the hashtag #FreeAhed. A smaller campaign protested the exclusion of Palestinian human rights from the agenda of the annual Creating Change conference organized by the US-based National LGBTQ Task Force in Washington. And, UNRWA publicized its emergency funding appeal, following the decision of the United States to slash funding to the organization, with the hashtag #DignityIsPriceless.

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