1. Cholera Eradication Plan Announced, But Funding Still in Question
(Matching tags: minustah, sanitation, haitian government, aid pledge, cholera, public sector, accountability)

... also envisions a strengthening of the public health sector and of the coordination between NGOs and the government. To this end, the government plans to “integrate their support into the national health ...

2. From Camp to Kanaan to One of Haiti’s First Sewage Treatment Plants
(Matching tags: shelter, reconstruction, sanitation, displacement, idps, cholera, public sector, dinepa)

... on the Champ de Mars, the public park in downtown Port-au-Prince across from where the national palace once stood, which later became home to at least 20,000 people. Sonny lived there with his family in ...

3. Visualizing State Union Numbers
(Matching tags: labor market, public sector, workers, unions, labor, private sector, states)

... in the private and public sectors. Early analysis has emphasized specific measures such as the implementation of so-called “right-to-work” legislation in Indiana or the attacks on public-sector bargaining ...

4. Public-Sector Union Numbers, 2012
(Matching tags: public sector, workers, unions, labor, private sector)

... percentage points in the private sector and 1.1 percentage points in the public sector. (CEPR's advance estimates were very close to the official numbers.) The big drop in unionization in the public ...

5. Union Membership, 2012
(Matching tags: jobs, labor market, public sector, unions, private sector)

... for union membership and coverage for 2012 and find a large drop in unionization last year. Most of the losses occurred in the public sector, where union membership fell 1.0 percentage points or about ...

6. Fear and Loathing in Port-au-Prince (and Beyond)
(Matching tags: contractors, relief coordination, haitian ngos, aid, public sector, recovery)

An article by Tate Watkins in The American Interest attempts to explain some of the reasons why, as the title puts it, Haiti’s rebuilding “is…taking so long?” Among the factors Watkins details are the ...

7. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, Oct. 31 – Nov. 4, 2011
(Matching tags: labor market, public sector, workers, Social Security)

Two new reports were released this week, by CEPR and NELP. Center for Economic and Policy Research Maintaining and Improving Social Security for Poorly Compensated Workers Shawn Fremstad National ...