The law would last one year, during which the TLC would complete a study on the impact of for-hire vehicle services on the city.
The task force will be led by Jared Bernstein, a prominent liberal economist who has been writing a study on the impact of Mr. Obama's stimulus plan.
This was the first and largest study on the impact of anaemia in garment factories and found that the condition could be a global issue within the industry.
A recent BMJ study on the impact of the recession on suicide rates linked low employment rates to higher rates of people taking their own life.
"We are recreating kafala," said Virginia Mantouvalou, co-director at UCL's Institute for Human Rights, which has shown the Guardian its study on the impact of tied visas before its publication later this year.
The definitive study on the impact of badger culling on the spread of bovine TB in cattle is the Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT) undertaken by the last government between 1997 and 2007.
It has also been revealed that a separate government field study on the impact of the pesticides on bees was seriously compromised by contamination because the chemicals are so widespread in the environment.
The House of Representatives passed a bill in June that would require the environmental agency to consider a study on the impact of dredging, now under way at the National Academy of Sciences, before authorizing any new dredging.
The task force, with Mr. Biden as chairman, will have as its executive director Jared Bernstein, a prominent liberal economist who has been writing a study on the impact of Mr. Obama's stimulus plan.
While Mr. Gore never had an economics adviser, Mr. Biden has hired Jared Bernstein, a prominent liberal economist who was assigned to help write a study on the impact of Mr. Obama's stimulus plan.
The Bush administration violated federal law by missing deadlines to produce a study on the impact of global warming, now as much as two years overdue, and must issue a summary by March, a federal judge ruled.
