Running on Empty: Families, Time, and Workplace Injuries

Running on empty? The compensatory reserve index.

BACKGROUND Hemorrhage is a leading cause of traumatic death. We hypothesized that state-of-the-art feature extraction and machine learning techniques could be used to discover, detect, and continuously trend beat-to-beat changes in arterial pulse waveforms associated with the progression to hemodynamic decompensation. METHODS We exposed 184 healthy humans to progressive central hypovolemia us...

Workplace Injuries and Job Flows

The growth rates of workplace injury and illness rates exhibit a negative (time-varying) mean and a pro-cyclical response to variations in economic activity, as they decline in recessions before rebounding (and overshooting) during economic recoveries. Using a structural time series model, it is shown that this business cycle behavior is driven by job flows. In recessions, the acceleration of j...

Running on Empty: The Operating Reserves of U.S. Nonprofit Organizations

Operating reserves allow nonprofit organizations to smooth out imbalances between revenues and expenses, helping to maintain program output in the presence of fiscal shocks. We know surprisingly little about why nonprofits might save operating reserves and what factors explain variation between organizations’ savings behavior. Findings suggest that operating reserves are reduced in the presence...

Running on empty: the state budget crisis worsens.

This issue brief reviews the status of state budget shortfalls and their growing impact on the Medicaid program. It describes the magnitude of the shortfalls, the forces behind them, and how states have responded with spending cuts and tax increases. It also discusses how long the budget crisis is expected to continue and what budget balancing options remain for fiscal year 2003.

Introduction [to Workplace Injuries and Diseases]