WASHINGTON (AP) ? The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 1.9 percent in the first three months of the year, slower than first estimated.
The Commerce Department on Thursday lowered its estimate for January-March growth from an initial estimate of 2.2 percent. The downward revision was largely because consumers and governments spent less than first estimated, businesses restocked more slowly, and the U.S. trade deficit grew sharply.
Analysts believe the economy is growing at a slightly faster rate this spring. They estimate growth at an annual rate of between 2 percent and 2.5 percent in the April-June quarter. Many expect the economy will maintain that pace for all of 2012, an improvement from last year's 1.7 percent growth.
Still, growth of 2.5 percent is typically enough just to keep pace with population changes. Most economists say it takes almost twice as much growth to lower the unemployment rate by 1 percentage point over a year.
The government offers three estimates for gross domestic product. GDP is the output of all goods and services, which includes everything from haircuts and coffee to airplanes and appliances.
A rising trade deficit slows growth because the country is spending more on foreign-made products than it is taking in from sales of U.S.-made goods. Less restocking means companies ordered fewer goods, which decreases factory production and weighs on growth.
Consumer spending grew at an annual rate of 2.7 percent in the first quarter. While that was the fastest pace since the end of 2010, it was down from an initial estimate of 2.9 percent. A key reason for the revision was fewer auto purchases.
Government spending at all levels fell at a 3.9 percent annual rate. That's much more than the 3.0 percent decline first estimated. It was the sixth straight quarter that government spending has declined, reflecting budget constraints at the federal, state and local levels.
Still, Jennifer Lee, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, pointed out that a number of components were revised higher. Among them was housing, which is beginning to show signs of a modest recovery after a prolonged period of weakness.
Economists expect growth to pick up slightly this spring because of steady job growth and lower gas prices. Both allow consumers to spend more freely. Consumer spending drives 70 percent of economic activity.
And more demand from consumers leads businesses to step up restocking, which also boosts growth.
One fear is that Europe's debt crisis could deepen. It has already rattled U.S. financial markets. And it could further dampen demand for U.S. exports.
Personal income after deducting taxes rose 0.4 percent in the first three months of the year. But the government sharply revised down its estimate of after-tax income growth in the fourth quarter of last year to only 0.2 percent. That's down from the previous estimate of 1.7 percent.
People financed their increase in spending by saving less. The savings rate fell to 3.6 percent of disposable income in the first quarter. That was down from 4.2 percent in the first quarter and was the lowest savings rate since it stood at 2.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007.
The unemployment rate has fallen a full percentage point since August ? from 9.1 percent to 8.1 percent last month. Part of the season for the drop is that employers added 1.5 million jobs during that time. But it has also declined because some people have grown discouraged and given up looking for work. The government only counts people as unemployed if they are actively looking for a job.
Some fear that means the job market could be weakening. But economists have cautioned that a warm winter led companies to move up some hiring that normally wouldn't occur until spring. That gave the appearance that the economy had strengthened in January and February and weakened in early spring.
The government reports Friday on May job growth. Economists expect 158,000 jobs created, slightly better than the past two months but far below the winter's pace. They also expect no change in the unemployment rate.
One positive development this month: gas prices have fallen sharply.
A gallon of regular unleaded has dropped by 31 cents since peaking in the first week of April. U.S. retail gasoline prices fell by a penny Wednesday to $3.63 per gallon, according to auto club AAA.
Experts see gas falling to at least $3.50 by July 4.
Study: Residential segregation still a problem in USPublic release date: 31-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Daniel Fowler pubinfo@asanet.org 202-527-7885 American Sociological Association
Relatively few black, white families moving into multi-ethnic neighborhoods
WASHINGTON, DC, May 29, 2012 Despite increasing numbers of multiethnic neighborhoods in the United States, relatively few black or white families are actually moving into these types of communities, according to a new study in the June issue of the American Sociological Review.
"We pay a lot of attention to this proliferation of multiethnic neighborhoods, but they are still only a small part of the overall inter-neighborhood mobility picture for blacks and whites," said Kyle Crowder, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington and lead author of the study. "Blacks tend to originate in neighborhoods with very high concentrations of blacks and, when they move, they tend to move to other places that have very high concentrations of blacks. Their typical destination is not a multiethnic neighborhood. The same is even more true for whites."
Titled, "Neighborhood Diversity, Metropolitan Constraints, and Household Migration," the study considers mobility patterns of 44,808 black families and 57,415 white families, some of whom moved several times between 1977 and 2005, the period covered by the analysis. The study, which looks at moves families made from one neighborhood in a metropolitan area to another neighborhood in the same metropolitan area, relies on multiple sources of data, including the Panel Study of Income Dynamicsa nationally representative, longitudinal survey of U.S. residentsand the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses.
According to the study, of the 9,940 moves that black families made between 1977 and 2005, 43.7 percent (4,340) were to predominately black neighborhoods, 5 percent (494) were to predominately white neighborhoods, 17.7 percent (1,763) were to multiethnic neighborhoods (whose populations were at least 10 percent black, at least 10 percent Hispanic or Asian, and at least 40 percent white), and 33.6 percent (3,343) were to other types of neighborhoods detailed in the analysis. By comparison, of the 8,823 moves that white families made during the same time period, 56.8 percent (5,008) were to predominately white neighborhoods, 2 percent (179) were to predominately black neighborhoods, 5.6 percent (493) were to multiethnic neighborhoods, and 35.6 percent (3,143) were to other types of neighborhoods.
"Our study tells a somewhat pessimistic story, but it's also a realistic story," said Crowder, who coauthored the analysis with Jeremy Pais, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, and Scott J. South, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Albany, SUNY. "It's a story that counters this idea that we should stop paying attention to residential segregation. The truth is, when it comes to eliminating residential segregation, we still have a long way to go. This becomes particularly clear when we look at the high percentage of black families from predominately black neighborhoods and the even higher percentage of white families from predominately white neighborhoods who wind up in homogeneous communities when they move."
The study found that of the 3,684 moves that black families made from predominately black neighborhoods between 1977 and 2005, 60.9 percent (2,245) were to other predominately black neighborhoods, 2 percent (74) were to predominately white neighborhoods, 18.9 percent (696) were to multiethnic neighborhoods, and 18.2 percent (669) were to other types of neighborhoods. By comparison, of the 4,987 moves that white families made from predominately white neighborhoods during the same time period, 74.9 percent (3,734) were to other predominately white neighborhoods, 1.5 percent (73) were to predominately black neighborhoods, 2.4 percent (120) were to multiethnic neighborhoods, and just over 21 percent (1,060) were to other types of neighborhoods.
Crowder said it is important to note thatafter controlling for other factorsthe year in which black and white families moved had little or no impact on the kinds of neighborhoods to which they moved. "For black families, year of move is statistically non-significant and for white families it has a minimal impact," Crowder said. "So, by itself, year doesn't seem to be a very important indicator of where blacks and whites movedand there wasn't much change in where blacks and whites moved over time, once we account for other factors that affect destinations."
Interestingly, the study also found that the tendency for white and black families to move between neighborhoods dominated by their own racial group varies significantly across metropolitan areas. "The mobility of black and white families into more integrated neighborhoods is shaped substantially by demographic, economic, political, and spatial features of the broader metropolitan area," Crowder said.
According to the study, metropolitan area characteristics likely to limit residential integration for blacks and whites include: high levels of existing residential segregation and poverty as well as a significant percentage of the population living in the suburbs. "Lower levels of these characteristics promote integration," Crowder said. "Additionally, mobility into more diverse neighborhoods is more common in metropolitan areas with large supplies of new housing and relatively large concentrations of racial and ethnic minorities."
In terms of policy implications, Crowder said the study highlights the need for policymakers to continue working on ways to address residential segregation. "Residential segregation influences such things as the concentration and the propagation of crime as well as racial disparities in health and in exposure to pollution," Crowder said. "When people say, 'Segregation is going away' and 'We don't need to worry about it anymore,' those are messages that people will latch onto quickly. Unfortunately, those types of statements are just untrue."
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About the American Sociological Association and the American Sociological Review
The American Sociological Association, founded in 1905, is a non-profit membership association dedicated to serving sociologists in their work, advancing sociology as a science and profession, and promoting the contributions to and use of sociology by society. The American Sociological Review is the ASA's flagship journal.
The research article described above is available by request for members of the media. For a copy of the full study, contact Daniel Fowler, ASA's Media Relations and Public Affairs Officer, at (202) 527-7885 or pubinfo@asanet.org.
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Study: Residential segregation still a problem in USPublic release date: 31-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Daniel Fowler pubinfo@asanet.org 202-527-7885 American Sociological Association
Relatively few black, white families moving into multi-ethnic neighborhoods
WASHINGTON, DC, May 29, 2012 Despite increasing numbers of multiethnic neighborhoods in the United States, relatively few black or white families are actually moving into these types of communities, according to a new study in the June issue of the American Sociological Review.
"We pay a lot of attention to this proliferation of multiethnic neighborhoods, but they are still only a small part of the overall inter-neighborhood mobility picture for blacks and whites," said Kyle Crowder, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington and lead author of the study. "Blacks tend to originate in neighborhoods with very high concentrations of blacks and, when they move, they tend to move to other places that have very high concentrations of blacks. Their typical destination is not a multiethnic neighborhood. The same is even more true for whites."
Titled, "Neighborhood Diversity, Metropolitan Constraints, and Household Migration," the study considers mobility patterns of 44,808 black families and 57,415 white families, some of whom moved several times between 1977 and 2005, the period covered by the analysis. The study, which looks at moves families made from one neighborhood in a metropolitan area to another neighborhood in the same metropolitan area, relies on multiple sources of data, including the Panel Study of Income Dynamicsa nationally representative, longitudinal survey of U.S. residentsand the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses.
According to the study, of the 9,940 moves that black families made between 1977 and 2005, 43.7 percent (4,340) were to predominately black neighborhoods, 5 percent (494) were to predominately white neighborhoods, 17.7 percent (1,763) were to multiethnic neighborhoods (whose populations were at least 10 percent black, at least 10 percent Hispanic or Asian, and at least 40 percent white), and 33.6 percent (3,343) were to other types of neighborhoods detailed in the analysis. By comparison, of the 8,823 moves that white families made during the same time period, 56.8 percent (5,008) were to predominately white neighborhoods, 2 percent (179) were to predominately black neighborhoods, 5.6 percent (493) were to multiethnic neighborhoods, and 35.6 percent (3,143) were to other types of neighborhoods.
"Our study tells a somewhat pessimistic story, but it's also a realistic story," said Crowder, who coauthored the analysis with Jeremy Pais, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, and Scott J. South, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Albany, SUNY. "It's a story that counters this idea that we should stop paying attention to residential segregation. The truth is, when it comes to eliminating residential segregation, we still have a long way to go. This becomes particularly clear when we look at the high percentage of black families from predominately black neighborhoods and the even higher percentage of white families from predominately white neighborhoods who wind up in homogeneous communities when they move."
The study found that of the 3,684 moves that black families made from predominately black neighborhoods between 1977 and 2005, 60.9 percent (2,245) were to other predominately black neighborhoods, 2 percent (74) were to predominately white neighborhoods, 18.9 percent (696) were to multiethnic neighborhoods, and 18.2 percent (669) were to other types of neighborhoods. By comparison, of the 4,987 moves that white families made from predominately white neighborhoods during the same time period, 74.9 percent (3,734) were to other predominately white neighborhoods, 1.5 percent (73) were to predominately black neighborhoods, 2.4 percent (120) were to multiethnic neighborhoods, and just over 21 percent (1,060) were to other types of neighborhoods.
Crowder said it is important to note thatafter controlling for other factorsthe year in which black and white families moved had little or no impact on the kinds of neighborhoods to which they moved. "For black families, year of move is statistically non-significant and for white families it has a minimal impact," Crowder said. "So, by itself, year doesn't seem to be a very important indicator of where blacks and whites movedand there wasn't much change in where blacks and whites moved over time, once we account for other factors that affect destinations."
Interestingly, the study also found that the tendency for white and black families to move between neighborhoods dominated by their own racial group varies significantly across metropolitan areas. "The mobility of black and white families into more integrated neighborhoods is shaped substantially by demographic, economic, political, and spatial features of the broader metropolitan area," Crowder said.
According to the study, metropolitan area characteristics likely to limit residential integration for blacks and whites include: high levels of existing residential segregation and poverty as well as a significant percentage of the population living in the suburbs. "Lower levels of these characteristics promote integration," Crowder said. "Additionally, mobility into more diverse neighborhoods is more common in metropolitan areas with large supplies of new housing and relatively large concentrations of racial and ethnic minorities."
In terms of policy implications, Crowder said the study highlights the need for policymakers to continue working on ways to address residential segregation. "Residential segregation influences such things as the concentration and the propagation of crime as well as racial disparities in health and in exposure to pollution," Crowder said. "When people say, 'Segregation is going away' and 'We don't need to worry about it anymore,' those are messages that people will latch onto quickly. Unfortunately, those types of statements are just untrue."
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About the American Sociological Association and the American Sociological Review
The American Sociological Association, founded in 1905, is a non-profit membership association dedicated to serving sociologists in their work, advancing sociology as a science and profession, and promoting the contributions to and use of sociology by society. The American Sociological Review is the ASA's flagship journal.
The research article described above is available by request for members of the media. For a copy of the full study, contact Daniel Fowler, ASA's Media Relations and Public Affairs Officer, at (202) 527-7885 or pubinfo@asanet.org.
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The security breach at UNL raised a lot of concerns. Many people ask, is anybody really safe?
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Since news spread of the University of Nebraska's security breach, Dailey's been fielding phone calls all day long. 85 calls an hour to be exact. "As traumatic as this has been for UNL, you really can't control it," said Dailey.
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"NASA this year was breached. They had over 1,400 top secret documents taken. The IRS has been breached numerous times. So even though we're focusing on UNL, the problem is on a much, much larger scale," said Dailey.
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For the full of your life you might have lived by rules that will have severely limited you your lifetime could have turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy a whole lot worse ? a self-imposed prison ? Ask yourself this do I still believe exactly the same things now as once I was a child ? I am fairly confident that you answered no to that question ? because I know your beliefs can have changed with time, experience and maturity. Beliefs change ? this is a simple truth ? however you should take an instant permit it sink within your. Isnt this an extremely powerful piece of knowledge ? because it signifies that your beliefs have enough the ability and reality that you opt to assign for them. Now here comes the truly cool bit ? youll be able to this is the beliefs Imagine that despite the fact you ditch unwanted, disempowering beliefs, you may choose to pick out brand new ones that will work to your advantage and before you ask, I am about to tell you methods to do it. Think within your mind like a computer that already been programmed with information ought to be updating ? the software continues to be good ? it just needs some newdata to help it become run better. The new programming will make positive changes to beliefs forever ? simple ? Ok, youve spent your whole life building and relying the current beliefs, therefore dont expect to change them overnight ? although you recognize it could happen imagine for a moment the one who has just discovered for adult that these were adopted as children ? this type of discovery would surely develop the potential to change everything they ever believed about themself instantly This may be a pretty dramatic example, but it serves to point out that this is of your lifestyle can alter in a very nanosecond ? the fact within your beliefs exposed for what they really are ? pure creation ? The in order to re-programming the mind is easy, butjust as your present beliefs were built, you have to follow this process inside the samesystematic way.
This can all be made when you could have a successful help guide self-improvement within your armory. I developed an obsessive adoration for betterment and private growth once I finally retired from rugby. My career was blighted with struggles and disappointments and I belatedly realized that all troubles I was encountering all originated from within. So I vowed to myself that I was now going to approach life and do things differently. Self improvement lets you become a far better person assists help to make something much more of yourself and your lifestyle. Why compromise your lifetime and you also future by not looking at strategies to grow, improve and develop everyday as someone.
I am speaking to the one that carries no dream, doesnt have an initiative and merely may seem to exist without purpose. Or maybe, you had a dream, but it was shattered because things didnt turn out the best way that you expected these to. I am conversing with the person who has learned to get their heads associated with the cloud because they will never accomplish anything special. You have settled due to opinions of probably well meaning, but thoughtless men. Refuse to live frequent life, an existence filled with mediocrity and aimlessness. Discovering that Divine purpose will enable you to reside in a fulfilled lifetime of total satisfaction and joy.
Our happiness is decided because when we expect concerning the events in this lives, as opposed to by the events themselves. Worrying with what might or wont happen is very unproductive, and totally destroys your capability to relish the existing moment. So, how will we learn to permit go of worries, guilt and anger Well, the very first thing to be able to become consciously conscious of wat were thinking whenever we feel worried, guilty or angry. Notice whats happening in your inner dialogue, and acknowledge thiss your thinking about the external event thats making you feel the way you need to do, rather than the wedding itself. Then reframe your thinking to reflect whats occurring near you in a more positive light. Whenever you catch yourself thinking that old thought, banish it immediately and replace it with the new one.
14 And let our people furthermore learn to maintain good works, to fulfill urgent needs, these people is probably not unfruitful. This just isnt to express that salvation or our redemption derives from good works, but rather good works should be the result of salvation. For by grace youve been saved through faith, and which of yourselves it can be the gift of God, . 9. For weve been His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus once and for all works, which God prepared beforehand that we must always walk all of them. So we have a choice to make, do we walk within the things of God or of what exactly in the flesh.
Thats why Peter said the particular unction from the Holy Spirit, that were sojourners or in other words we have been inside the technique of an outing. We are learning and should figure out how to your Word of God into practice now. God the Father is telling us to become like Him, wed wonder the way we could be like Him, and walk in holiness as his Word tells us to. And walk in love, as Christ even offers loved us and given Himself for many people, an offering any sacrifice to God for the sweet-smelling aroma. But fornication and all of uncleanness or covetousness, allow it to go not even be named among you, out of the box fitting for saints . 4.
Top UFC stars lead the pack of fitness celebrities at the 11th annual Bodybuilding.com Fitness Expo (BFE). Light heavyweight champion Jon ?Bones? Jones, number four middleweight in the world Michael Bisping, and former lightweight champion Frankie Edgar will be drawing in the fans at the Northwest?s largest, free health and fitness expo.
Boise, ID (PRWEB) May 30, 2012
Top UFC stars lead the pack of fitness celebrities at the 11th annual Bodybuilding.com Fitness Expo (BFE). Light heavyweight champion Jon ?Bones? Jones, number four middleweight in the world Michael Bisping, and former lightweight champion Frankie Edgar will be drawing in the fans at the Northwest?s largest, free health and fitness expo.
Bodybuilding.com, the Internet?s most-visited bodybuilding and fitness site and largest online retailer of nutritional supplements, and Optimum Nutrition, one of the world?s most trusted performance nutrition brands, will be holding the action packed BFE on Saturday, June 9, 2012 from 10:00am to 4:00pm at the Century Link Arena in Boise, Idaho. The FIT USA Show Powered by MusclePharm will take place after the BFE at 7:00pm (cocktail hour starts at 6:00pm) at the historic Egyptian Theatre. The crowd will watch as the nation?s top 20 men and women battle it out for the title of ?The USA?s Fittest Body?. There will also be a special performance by the internationally acclaimed American Acrobats.
This year Bodybuilding.com has partnered with The Idaho Foodbank in order to help provide nutritious, healthy food to those in need. All those who bring a healthy canned food item to the BFE will receive a free Bodybuilding.com Mesh Workout Bag. One lucky guest will take home a workout bag stuffed with a $100 gift card to Bodybuilding.com. Plus, all ticket proceeds from the BFE?s official evening event, The FIT USA Show, will go directly towards The Idaho Foodbank.
In addition to the top UFC stars, the BFE will be featuring: Jamie Eason (one of the most recognized faces in the fitness industry, appearing on countless magazine covers around the world); Mike O?Hearn (real life superhero best known as Titan from NBC?s ?American Gladiators?); Ashley Conrad (A-list celebrity trainer and global boxing trainer for Adidas); NFL favorites Mark Megna and Doug Martin; industry experts Rich Gaspari, Tom Fuller and Layne Norton; Pro Bodybuilders Flex Wheeler, Andy Haman, and Ben Pakulski; Strongmen Brian Shaw, Grant Higa and Corey St. Clair; IFBB Figure and Bikini Pros Jessica Paxon, Alicia Harris and Nicole Nagrani; plus many more surprise guests.
There will be plenty of action and things to do with Gaspari?s Grapplers Quest, Dymatize?s CrossFit Competition, Military Contests, Strong Man Exhibitions, Sundae Marshall?s Bikini Fashion Show, the annual Mr. Puniverse Competition (where being puny is in), as well as other entertaining acts. There is something for everyone!
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?The BFE just keeps getting bigger and better every year! When Bodybuilding.com throws an event they pull out all the stops,? ? Bodybuilding.com Spokesperson, Jamie Eason.
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