BizJournals: “A total of 184 U.S. counties and independent cities now have majority-minority populations, according to an On Numbers breakdown of the latest U.S. Census Bureau data…The majority-minority list includes 15 counties with populations of more than 500,000. The largest are Kings and Queens County, N.Y. (better known as the New York City boroughs of… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2011
USGS – Examining Our Past: Historical Map Collection Now Online
News release: “Nearly 90,000 high resolution scans of the more than 200,000 historical USGS topographic maps, some dating as far back as 1884, are now available online. The Historical Topographic Map Collection includes published U.S. maps of all scales and editions, and are offered as a georeferenced digital download or as a scanned print from… Continue Reading
Education, Demand, and Unemployment in Metropolitan America
Education, Demand, and Unemployment in Metropolitan America – Jonathan Rothwell and Alan Berube “Inadequate demand and inadequate education, relative to available occupations, are both hampering economic recovery in U.S. metropolitan areas. With a still weakened private sector, strategic public investment and regional economic diversification can help address the first problem. Yet even when the economy… Continue Reading
Independent Commission on Banking – Final Report Recommendations
Independent Commission on Banking – Final Report Recommendations, September 2011 [via Richard McKinney] “The recommendations in this report aim to create a more stable and competitive basis for UK banking in the longer term. That means much more than greater resilience against future financial crises and removing risks from banks to the public finances. It… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Interagency Contracting, Securing the Southwest Land Border
Interagency Contracting: Improvements Needed in Setting Fee Rates for Selected Programs, GAO-11-784, September 9, 2011 Observations on the Costs and Benefits of an Increased Department of Defense Role in Helping to Secure the Southwest Land Border. GAO-11-856R, September 12, 2011 Continue Reading
New website – Business without Borders
“Business without Borders [sponsored by HSBC] is a unique resource in the United States an online platform for businesses expanding beyond the U.S. borders. Targeted content from Business without Borders, and content partners The Wall Street Journal, Economist Intelligence Unit, and video content from Bloomberg Master Class, address the issues and needs of growing… Continue Reading
LexisNexis® Launches Open Alliance Program for HPCC Systems, Enterprise-Proven, Open Source Alternative to Hadoop
News release: “LexisNexis® Risk Solutions today unveiled the HPCC Systems Alliance Program, which is a collaboration of partners to stimulate innovation and accelerate market adoption of the newly open sourced HPCC Systems, an enterprise-proven, open source solution to help large organizations process Big Data. Built on a high performing computer cluster technology, HPCC Systems is… Continue Reading
Fact Sheet: Combating the Financing of Terrorism, Disrupting Terrorism at its Core
Treasury news release, 9/8/2011: “Terrorist organizations rely on financing and support networks to sustain operations and launch attacks. The U.S. Department of the Treasurys Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) has developed a sophisticated and comprehensive approach including intelligence analysis, sanctions administration and enforcement, financial regulatory action, policy expertise, and outreach to the… Continue Reading
Fiscal Policy Institute: State of Working New York 2011
“A new report released by the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) shows that two years into the recovery from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, 1.4 million, or one in every seven, New York workers is unemployed, under-employed or has given up looking for work. Long-term unemployment is at record levels. Half of the unemployed have been… Continue Reading
A Google Maps Project Focused on Scholarly Publishing
Citation by Citation, New Maps Chart Hot Research and Scholarship’s Hidden Terrain, by Jennifer Howard Imagine a Google Maps of scholarship, a set of tools sophisticated enough to help researchers locate hot research, spot hidden connections to other fields, and even identify new disciplines as they emerge in the sprawling terrain of scholarly communication. Creating… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve: The Subprime Crisis: Is Government Housing Policy to Blame?
The Subprime Crisis: Is Government Housing Policy to Blame? Robert B. Avery and Kenneth P. Brevoort, 2011-36 “Abstract: A growing literature suggests that housing policy, embodied by the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and the affordable housing goals of the government sponsored enterprises, may have caused the subprime crisis. The conclusions drawn in this literature, for… Continue Reading
EIA – Short Term Energy Outlook
Short-Term Energy Outlook, September 7, 2011 Release: “EIA’s economic growth assumptions have been lowered substantially compared with last month’s Outlook. This forecast assumes that U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) grows by 1.5 percent this year and 1.9 percent next year compared with 2.4 percent and 2.6 percent, respectively, in the previous Outlook. World oil-consumption-weighted… Continue Reading
