News release: “The nonprofit Partnership for Public Service [presented] nine Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals (Sammies) at a Washington, D.C. gala on September 15 to outstanding public servants who are making high-impact contributions to the health, safety and well-being of Americans. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Sammies have earned a reputation as one… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Economist: Europe's currency crisis How to save the euro
It requires urgent action on a huge scale. Unless Germany rises to the challenge, disaster looms “So grave, so menacing, so unstoppable has the euro crisis become that even rescue talk only fuels ever-rising panic. Investors have sniffed out that Europes leaders seem unwilling ever to do enough. Yet unless politicians act fast to persuade… Continue Reading
HHS Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan 2011 2015
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan, 2011 2015. In developing and executing the federal health IT strategy, the government strives to “Put individuals and their interests first. In order to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, the government must meet the needs… Continue Reading
Social Media and Disasters: Current Uses, Future Options, and Policy Considerations
CRS: Social Media and Disasters: Current Uses, Future Options, and Policy Considerations, Bruce R. Lindsay, Analyst in American National Goverment, September 6, 2011 “In the last five years social media have played an increasing role in emergencies and disasters. Social media sites rank as the fourth most popular source to access emergency information. They have… Continue Reading
FTC Seeks Comment on Proposed Revisions to Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on proposed amendments to the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Rule, which gives parents control over what personal information websites may collect from children under 13. The FTC proposes these amendments to ensure that the Rule continues to protect childrens privacy, as mandated by Congress, as… Continue Reading
CBO – The Medium-Term Budget Outlook and Policy Options
The Medium-Term Budget Outlook and Policy Options – CBO Director Doug Elmendorf’s presentation to the Macroeconomic Advisers’ Washington Policy Seminar, September 14, 2011 “The past combination of policies cannot be repeated when it comes to the federal budget: The aging of our population and the rising cost of health care have changed the backdrop for… Continue Reading
UNC LifeTime Library – Now Offering Library Science Students Perpetual Online Access
Alex Campbell: “Incoming students at the University of North Carolinas School of Information and Library Science this year are getting a new kind of welcome-to-campus perk: Free data storage, for keeps. The service, called LifeTime Library, works on students personal computers, allowing them to automatically archive files and folders. The data are preserved on the… Continue Reading
An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity
Kampelmann, Stephan and Rycx, Francois, Are Occupations Paid What They are Worth? An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity. IZA Discussion Paper No. 5951. Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, Institute for the Study of Labor [download via SSRN] “Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in… Continue Reading
USDA – Rural Income, Poverty, and Welfare
Economic Research Service, updated September 17, 2011: “ERS research in this area focuses on the economic, social, and demographic factors that affect the income and poverty status of rural residents and their participation in Federal assistance programs, including food assistance programs. The industrial sources of earned income vary widely across rural areas. Social Security and… Continue Reading
UK Guardian – The death of books has been greatly exaggerated
Radical change is certainly producing some alarming symptoms: “According to Nielsen BookScan, the publishing industry standard for book sales data, book sales are pretty healthy, with one significant proviso which I’ll come to. Ten years ago in 2001, 162m books were sold in Britain. Ten years later a decade in which the internet bloomed,… Continue Reading
HathiTrust Statement on Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. HathiTrust et al.
Press release: “On September 12, 2011 the Authors’ Guild and a number of other entities filed suit against HathiTrust and a number of its university partners. The issues in the suit are the orphan works project as well as the digitization effort that we have been engaged in for almost two decades. Digitization is a… Continue Reading
New Labor Statistics: Unemployment Rates Up in Most States
WSH Interactive Map: “Follow the change in unemployment from the end of the recent recession. Below, the state-by-state unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, seasonally adjusted. Updated: 9/16/2011” Continue Reading
