“The FTC has filed an amicus brief in a case before a federal appeals court concerning Facebook users. If a controversial settlement is approved, Facebook will display the images of users, including young children, in Facebook advertising without consent. Several Facebook users formally objected to the plan, arguing that it would violate state laws. A children’s advocacy organization also objected, stating that… Continue Reading
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Making the Grade: Access to Information Scorecard 2014
“A building block of American democracy is the idea that as citizens, we have a right to information about how our government works and what it does in our name. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires federal agencies to promptly respond to public requests for information unless disclosure of the requested information would harm… Continue Reading
FOIA.gov
“You can explore the FOIA data that makes up an agency’s annual FOIA report. Search for data from a single agency or compare data from multiple agencies. Just follow these steps: At the “Select Report” column, click on a category, such as “Requests” or “Administration” to select the type of report you would like to… Continue Reading
Program for Digital Archiving of Vatican Apostolic Library Manuscripts
News release – NTT DATA Corporation, a global IT solutions provider, today announced it was selected to contribute to the project of digitally archiving manuscripts of the Vatican Apostolic Library: “About the Vatican Apostolic Library: The Vatican Apostolic Library, known as the “Popes’ library”, is located in Vatican City. Founded by Pope Nicholas V Parentucelli (1447-1455) in… Continue Reading
Bloomberg Visual Data Products
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Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers, 2013
“This report presents highlights and statistical tables of minimum wage workers in 2013. The data are obtained from the Current Population Survey (CPS), a national monthly survey of approximately 60,000 households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Information on earnings is collected from one-fourth of the CPS sample each month.The CPS does not include questions on whether workers are covered by the minimum… Continue Reading
Expansive Survey of America’s Public Schools Reveals Troubling Racial Disparities
News release: “The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released today the first comprehensive look at civil rights data from every public school in the country in nearly 15 years. The Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) from the 2011-12 school year was announced by U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan and U.S.… Continue Reading
Possible Elimination of FR and CFR indexes
Via GOVDOC-L – “Please see the following message from Emily Feltren, Director of Government Relations for AALL, and contact her if you have any examples to share. “Hi Advocates—Last week, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee reported out the Federal Register Modernization Act (HR 4195). The bill, introduced the night before the mark up,… Continue Reading
World Wide Web Timeline
Pew – “Since its founding in 1989, the World Wide Web has touched the lives of billions of people around the world and fundamentally changed how we connect with others, the nature of our work, how we discover and share news and new ideas, how we entertain ourselves and how communities form and function. The timeline is… Continue Reading
Are the Long-Term Unemployed on the Margins of the Labor Market?
Are the Long-Term Unemployed on the Margins of the Labor Market? Alan B. Krueger, Princeton University & NBER; Judd Cramer, Princeton University; David Cho, Princeton University. March 2014. “This paper explores the plausibility of a unified explanation for the recent shifts in the price and real wage Phillips Curves and Beveridge Curve in the U.S.: namely, that the long-term unemployed,… Continue Reading
Paper – Taxes and Inequality
“This paper by Leonard E. Burman reviews historical trends in economic inequality and tax policy’s role in reducing it. It documents the various reasons why income inequality continues to rise, paying particular attention to the interplay between regressive and progressive federal and state taxes. The report also considers the trade-off between the social welfare gains that… Continue Reading
Brookings – The Wealthy Hand-to-Mouth
The Wealthy Hand-to-Mouth. Greg Kaplan, Princeton University, NBER, and IFS; Giovanni L. Violante, New York University, CEPR, NBER, and IFS; Justin Weidner, Princeton University “The wealthy hand-to-mouth are households who hold little or no liquid wealth (cash, checking, and savings accounts), despite owning sizable amounts of illiquid assets (assets that carry a transaction cost, such as housing or retirement… Continue Reading
