News release: “State and local government defined-benefit employee retirement systems paid $168 billion to 7.5 million retirees and survivors in fiscal year 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. This is a $12 billion increase from the previous year when 7.3 million received payments. There were 2,547 retirement systems in 2007, with memberships of 18.6… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Census Bureau Projects U.S. Population of 305.5 Million on New Year's Day
News release: ” As our nation prepares to ring in the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau today projected the Jan. 1, 2009, total U.S. population will be 305,529,237 up 2,743,429, or 0.9 percent, from New Years Day 2008. In January 2009, one birth is expected to occur every eight seconds in the United… Continue Reading
Report: Lifetime Losses – The Career Wage Gap
Center for American Progress Action Fund, Lifetime Losses: The Career Wage Gap, by Jessica Arons: “Unfortunately, even in the absence of intentional discrimination, most women in this country also are likely to lose substantial amounts of income due to something we at the Center for American Progress Action Fund have termed the career wage gap.… Continue Reading
OECD Information Technology Outlook 2008
“Information technology (IT) and broadband are major drivers of research, innovation, economic growth and social change. The 2008 edition of the OECD Information Technology Outlook analyses recent developments in the IT goods and services industries, and suggests that the outlook is for continued long-term growth, constrained by the currently very uncertain macroeconomic environment in OECD… Continue Reading
NASA's Top Science, Exploration and Discovery Stories of 2008
NASA Year in Review 2008: “NASA landed on Mars, photographed distant worlds, added to the International Space Station, took part in a lunar science mission with India and made major progress toward returning astronauts to the moon as the agency celebrated its 50th birthday in 2008. Here on Earth, NASA researchers recorded the continued decline… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: Neurolaw and Criminal Justice
Neurolaw and Criminal Justice: Ken Strutin’s article highlights selected recent publications, news sources and other online materials concerning the applications of cognitive research to criminal law as well as basic information on the science and technology involved. Continue Reading
Report: Recent Surge in Homicides Involving Young Black Males and Guns
The Recent Surge in Homicides involving Young Black Males and Guns: Time to Reinvest in Prevention and Crime Control, December 2008, James Alan Fox, Ph.D., The Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice, and Professor of Law, Policy & Society and Marc L. Swatt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University Summary of Findings: “While… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: Deep Web Research 2009
Deep Web Research 2009: Marcus P. Zillman’s guide includes links to: articles, papers, forums, audios and videos, cross database articles, search services and search tools, peer to peer, file sharing, grid/matrix search engines, presentations, resources on deep web research, semantic web research, and bot research resources and sites. Continue Reading
Gartner Says 2008 Should Be the Last Christmas for Retail CDs
News release: “The music industry must move away from the retail CD as its primary revenue generator before Christmas 2009, according to Gartner. Gartner said that reliance on revenue from the sale of prerecorded CDs is hindering the music industry from fully embracing online distribution opportunities…Enabling the transition away from retail music CDs toward online… Continue Reading
Growing Income Gap among U.S. Families Suggests Increasing Economic Insecurity, Threat to Middle Class
News release: “The incomes of American families with children have become increasingly stratified since 1975, with income inequality increasing two-thirds during a 30-year period, according to findings published in the December issue of the peer-reviewed science journal American Sociological Review. The gap between the haves and the have-nots is widening for families with children in… Continue Reading
Release of Bush White House Data to National Archives Overwhelms Infrastructure
New York Times: “The National Archives has put into effect an emergency plan to handle electronic records from the Bush White House amid growing doubts about whether its new $144 million computer system can cope with the vast quantities of digital data it will receive when President Bush leaves office on Jan. 20. The technical… Continue Reading
Report: The Clean Coal Smoke Screen
The Clean Coal Smoke Screen by Daniel J. Weiss, Nick Kong, Sam Schiller, Alexandra Kougentakis | December 22, 2008. Data Analysis for Clean Coal Smoke Screen, by Daniel J. Weiss, Nick Kong, Sam Schiller, Alexandra Kougentakis | December 22, 2008 “A series of feel-good ads this year showcased a variety of people straight from central… Continue Reading
