“…the New York Fed released a set of interactive maps and charts illuminating school finances in New York and New Jersey. These user-friendly graphics illustrate the progression of various school finance indicators over time. They also make clear the large variability in finances across districts and states. The interactive maps and charts are an exciting way to… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2013
What Families Need to Get By
The 2013 Update of EPI’s Family Budget Calculator By Elise Gould, Hilary Wething, Natalie Sabadish, and Nicholas Finio | July 3, 2013 “The income level necessary for families to secure an adequate but modest living standard is an important economic yardstick. While poverty thresholds, generally set at the national level, help to evaluate what it takes for families to live free… Continue Reading
DeepField Blog – Google Sets New Internet Record
Craig Labovitch via DeepField Blog: “While it is old news that Google is BIG , the sheer scale and dominance of Google in the Internet infrastructure has significant implications on network design and evolution. When we last published some large-scale measurements in 2010, Google represented (a now seemingly small) 6% of Internet traffic. Today, Google… Continue Reading
Deposit Rate Advantages at Big Banks
Deposit Rate Advantages at the Largest Banks, Stefan Jacewitz – Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Jonathan Pogach – Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, May 31, 2013 “We estimate differences in funding costs between the largest banks and the rest of the industry. Using deposit rates offered at the branch level, we eliminate many non-risk related differences between banks. We document significant and… Continue Reading
Distressed Residential Real Estate
“On October 5, 2012, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Rockefeller Institute of Government co-hosted the conference Distressed Residential Real Estate: Dimensions, Impacts, and Remedies. This post not only makes available a compendium of the findings of the conference, but also updates and extends some of the analysis presented. In particular, we look across states… Continue Reading
The Policy Elasticity
The Policy Elasticity, Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard University, June 2013 “This paper provides a generic framework for evaluating the welfare impact of government policy changes towards taxes, transfers, and publicly provided goods. The results show that the behavioral response required for welfare measurement is the causal impact of each agent’s response to the policy on the government’s budget. A… Continue Reading
State-Specific Healthy Life Expectancy at Age 65 Years
State-Specific Healthy Life Expectancy at Age 65 Years — United States, 2007–2009, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). July 19, 2013 / 62(28);561-566 “In this report, difference in Health Life Expectancies (HLE) were reported at the state level for adults aged 65 years based on self-reported health in the 2007–2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey, National Vital… Continue Reading
LinkedIn has growing value for lawyers
Via LLRX.com – LinkedIn has growing value for lawyers Nicole L. Black’s commentary on LinkedIn provides perspective on how it is billed as the “professional” social network, which is why lawyers dipping their toes into social media for the first time often start with LinkedIn. She states that the problem is that as far as social… Continue Reading
FOIA Facts: The Crazy World of FOIA Fees
Via LLRX.com – FOIA Facts: The Crazy World of FOIA Fees Scott Hodes discusses how the issue of FOIA fees may be the most complex area of an already confusing subject. There are multiple agencies involved in overseeing the issue and in general the money collected doesn’t help agency FOIA operations in the least. He clarifies… Continue Reading
Big Data, Little Privacy: Tracking the Usual Suspects
Via LLRX.com – Big Data, Little Privacy: Tracking the Usual Suspects In his article, Ken Strutin examines how the 21st century use of watch lists might or might not resemble the labeling of the McCarthy period, and how the experience of that era might inform an evaluation of present-day designation of the dangerous. After first describing… Continue Reading
Life Span of U.S. Supreme Court Citation Containing an Internet Link
Liebler, Raizel and Liebert, June (2013) Something Rotten in the State of Legal Citation: The Life Span of a United States Supreme Court Citation Containing an Internet Link (1996-2010), Yale Journal of Law and Technology: Vol. 15: Iss. 2, Article 2. “Citations are the cornerstone upon which judicial opinions and law review articles stand. Within… Continue Reading
UK Guardian – Secret court lets NSA extend its trawl of Verizon customers’ phone records
“The National Security Agency has been allowed to extend its dragnet of the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon through a court order issued by the secret court that oversees surveillance. In an unprecedented move prompted by the Guardian’s disclosure in June of the NSA‘s indiscriminate collection of Verizon metadata, the Office… Continue Reading
