“Recent changes to the OCLC Research ArchiveGrid collection of archival material descriptions have resulted in a better experience for ArchiveGrid users. The latest ArchiveGrid index update puts the number of archival material descriptions in ArchiveGrid over the two million mark, giving users access to more archival descriptions than ever. The ArchiveGrid user interface now utilizes… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Calculating Restitution for Mortgage Fraud
The Arithmetic of Justice: Calculating Restitution for Mortgage Fraud, T. Dietrich Hill, Columbia University – Law School – October 21, 2013. Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming “The Mandatory Victims Restitution Act requires restitution for federal crimes involving property. In particular, the defendant is required to return any property taken, or, if return is impossible, to pay… Continue Reading
Federal Regulators Provide Guidance on Qualified Mortgage Fair Lending Risks
News release: “Five federal regulatory agencies today issued a statement to address industry questions about fair lending risks associated with offering only Qualified Mortgages. Creditors have asked for clarity regarding whether the disparate impact doctrine of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and its implementing regulation, Regulation B, allows them to originate only Qualified Mortgages.… Continue Reading
Student Financial Aid, Academic Year 2011-12
Student Financial Aid, Academic Year 2011–12, First Look (Provisional Data): “This provisional First Look presents fully edited and imputed data findings on student financial aid, including the number of undergraduate students receiving aid and the amount of aid received by those students for the 2011-12 academic year.” See also Degrees of Debt: Student Loan Repayment… Continue Reading
Literacy, Numeracy, and Problem Solving in Technology
“This report presents results of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). Results are reported for a representative sample of adults in the United States age 16 to 65 and are compared to an international average of adults in countries/regions that participated in the PIAAC 2012 assessment. The report presents average score… Continue Reading
The Macroeconomic Policy Paradox – Failing by Succeeding
The Macroeconomic Policy Paradox – Failing by Succeeding, Alan S. Blinder “While objections can be (and have been) raised, the U.S. government’s multifaceted macroeconomic policy responses to the financial crisis after September 2008 appear to have been quite effective. Yet, politically, they are more reviled than admired. The paradox is that economic success—in the sense of… Continue Reading
Poll: Nearly half say replace everyone in Congress
“The impasse that shut down much of the federal government for 16 days has left Americans in the sort of throw-the-bums-out mood that presaged two recent tumultuous elections in which control of the House of Representatives shifted from one party to the other. In a nationwide USA TODAY/Princeton Survey Research Poll, just 4% of those… Continue Reading
Le Monde documents NSA PRISM surveillance of citizens
Jacques Follorou and Glenn Greenwald, Le Monde: “According to the documents retrieved from the NSA database by its ex-analyst, telephone communications of French citizens are intercepted on a massive scale. Le Monde has been able to obtain access to documents which describe the techniques used to violate the secrets or simply the private life of… Continue Reading
Report – What the Government Does with Americans’ Data
What the Government Does with Americans’ Data, by Rachel Levinson-Waldman, Brennan Center for Justice, October 8, 2013. “After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the government’s authority to collect, keep, and share information about Americans with little or no basis to suspect wrongdoing dramatically expanded. While the risks and benefits of this approach are the… Continue Reading
Updating the Statutory Framework for Communications for the Digital Age
CRS – Updating the Statutory Framework for Communications for the Digital Age: Issues for Congress. Charles B. Goldfarb, Specialist in Telecommunications Policy. September 30, 2013 “The statutory framework for the communications sector largely was enacted prior to the commercial development and deployment of digital technology, Internet Protocol (IP), broadband networks, and online voice, data, and… Continue Reading
Recent Articles from BLS Monthly Labor Review
Labor market lessons from occupational colleges 10/01/2013 Coming to America: the Latino impact 10/01/2013 Scheduled passenger air transportation in the Producer Price Index: improvements and trends 09/26/2013 Recent trends in spending patterns of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants and other low-income Americans 09/13/2013 Research highlights of the Consumer Expenditure Survey redesign 09/09/2013 A working we… Continue Reading
Report Card released by UNICEF charts well-being of children in 29 rich countries
“Report Card 11: Child well-being in rich countries, from UNICEF’s Office of Research, examines the state of children across the ‘rich’ world. As debates continue to generate strongly opposed views on the pros and cons of austerity measures and social spending cuts, Report Card 11 charts the achievements of 29 of the world’s advanced economies… Continue Reading
