HBR Blog: “The American workforce is now 34% freelancer, according to a new study commissioned by the Freelancers Union and the recently-merged Elance-oDesk. Well, sort of: 14.3 million of the 53 million freelancers counted in the survey are “moonlighters” (people with full-time jobs doing independent work in their spare time). Another 5.5 million are temp workers. Here’s the full… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2014
College May Not Pay Off for Everyone
Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz. This post is the third in a series of four Liberty Street Economics posts examining the value of a college degree. “In our recent Current Issues article and blog post on the value of a college degree, we showed that the economic benefits of a bachelor’s degree still far outweigh the costs. However, this does not mean… Continue Reading
Four states supply domestic uranium concentrate in 2013
EIA: Although most of the uranium used in domestic nuclear power plants is imported, domestic uranium processing facilities still provide sizeable volumes of uranium concentrate to U.S. nuclear power plants. In 2013, uranium concentrate was produced at seven facilities in four states. Wyoming accounted for 59% of domestic production, followed by Utah (22%), Nebraska (15%), and Texas (4%), according to the World Nuclear Association. Uranium… Continue Reading
Newly Revealed NSA Program ICREACH Extends the NSA’s Reach Even Further
EFF: Turns out, the DEA and FBI may know what medical conditions you have, whether you are having an affair, where you were last night, and more—all without any knowing that you have ever broken a law. That’s because the DEA and FBI, as part of over 1000 analysts at 23 U.S. intelligence agencies, have the ability… Continue Reading
Hidden in Plain Sight: A statistical analysis of violence against children
UNICEF Report, September 2014: “Interpersonal violence – in all its forms – has a grave effect on children: Violence undermines children’s future potential; damages their physical, psychological and emotional well-being; and in many cases, ends their lives. The report sheds light on the prevalence of different forms of violence against children, with global figures and… Continue Reading
Census Flows Mapper Highlights Labor Force Characteristics of Movers Between Counties
News release: “Of the 16.6 million people who lived in a different county one year before, 7.3 million were employed and 1.3 million were unemployed, according to new migration statistics released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. A little over 5 percent of the U.S. population lived in a different county one year earlier. The County-to-County Migration… Continue Reading
18F launches alpha foia.gov
Via E Pluribus Unum, Alexander B. Howard: “18F, the federal government’s new IT development shop, has launched a new look at the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the form of a open source application hosted on Github. Today’s announcement is the most substantive evidence yet that the Obama administration will indeed modernize the Freedom of Information Act, as the United… Continue Reading
Suicide Among Adults Aged 35–64 Years – United States, 1999–2010
CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) “Suicide is an increasing public health concern. In 2009, the number of deaths from suicide surpassed the number of deaths from motor vehicle crashes in the United States. Traditionally, suicide prevention efforts have been focused mostly on youths and older adults, but recent evidence suggests that there have… Continue Reading
From StreetView to the new mapping tool, Cartographer, get a glimpse of how GoogleMaps works
Google Maps Blog: “With Google Maps by your side, you have a co-pilot for everything from turn-by-turn directions, to discovering new restaurants to deciding which hiking trails to climb next. This is possible in large part because Google Maps includes information from thousands of authoritative sources as varied as the U.S. Geological Survey, the Ordnance Survey of… Continue Reading
New Bank for International Settlement Working Papers
Working Papers – September 2014: Cross-Border Banking and Global Liquidity The international monetary and financial system: a capital account historical perspective The international monetary and financial system: its Achilles heel and what to do about it Continue Reading
Report on supervisory colleges for financial conglomerates
“The Joint Forum has today released its report on supervisory colleges for financial conglomerates. The report, the result of a recent self-assessment survey of Joint Forum members, presents findings on how far cross-sectoral issues, and specific questions related to financial conglomerates, are effectively addressed within supervisory colleges. This stocktaking exercise also provides information on the implementation of the… Continue Reading
Forecast Rationality Tests in the Presence of Instabilities
Forecast Rationality Tests in the Presence of Instabilities, With Applications to Federal Reserve and Survey Forecasts. Barbara Rossi and Tatevik Sekhposyany. June 8, 2014. Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional. “This paper proposes a framework to implement regression-based tests of predictive ability in unstable environments, including, in particular, forecast unbiasedness and efficiency tests, commonly referred to as tests of forecast rationality. Our… Continue Reading
