July 14, 2015 – “The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today released results from its June 2015 SCE Credit Access Survey, which provides information on consumers’ experiences and expectations regarding credit demand and credit access. The release shows an increase in application rates for credit over the last twelve months, and a significant decline… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2015
EIA – Drilling Productivity Report
“The Drilling Productivity Report – July 13, 2015 – uses recent data on the total number of drilling rigs in operation along with estimates of drilling productivity and estimated changes in production from existing oil and natural gas wells to provide estimated changes in oil and natural gas production for seven key regions. EIA’s approach… Continue Reading
GAO Reports – Unaccompanied Alien Children, C-130 Force Structure, DOE Project Management
Unaccompanied Alien Children: Actions Needed to Ensure Children Receive Required Care in DHS Custody, GAO-15-521: Published: Jul 14, 2015. Publicly Released: Jul 14, 2015. C-130 Force Structure: Air Force Addressed Statutory Elements in Its Report, but Decided Not to Transfer Certain Aircraft as Proposed, GAO-15-637R: Published: Jul 13, 2015. Publicly Released: Jul 13, 2015. DOE… Continue Reading
Twitter archive project at LC deemed a failure
Politico: “In the spring of 2010, the Library of Congress announced it was taking a big stride toward preserving the nation’s increasingly digital heritage — by acquiring Twitter’s entire archive of tweets and planning to make it all available to “How Tweet It Is!” the library said in an exuberant blog post, which generated fanfare… Continue Reading
Support continues for public release of CRS reports paid for by taxpayers
Roll Call – “The walls between members of the public and Capitol Hill’s exclusive division of policy and legal analysts are too tall, according to transparency advocates both inside and outside of Congress. Such sentiment is prompting their calls to lawmakers with jurisdiction over the Library of Congress and the House clerk’s office to examine making public… Continue Reading
HHS – Aging.gov
“More than 10,000 people turn 65 every day in the United States, and people are living longer, healthier lives. Healthy lifestyles, planning for retirement, and knowing your options for health care and long-term care are more important than ever before.” Resources available on Aging.gov include the following: Healthy Aging Health Issues Long-Term Care Elder Justice… Continue Reading
Longitudinal Study Correlating Law Student Applicant Data and Law School Outcomes
Marks, Alexia Brunet and Moss, Scott A., What Makes a Law Student Succeed or Fail? A Longitudinal Study Correlating Law Student Applicant Data and Law School Outcomes (July 6, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2627330 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2627330 “Despite the rise of “big data” empiricism, law school admission remains heavily impressionistic; admission decisions based on… Continue Reading
NY Fed – U.S. Economy in a Snapshot
“Overview of the July 2015 Snapshot Real consumption expenditures are showing signs of a pickup from the weakness during the first quarter. Business equipment spending continued to be sluggish compared to its pace in the second and third quarters of 2014 There recent has been moderate improvement in housing market conditions June payroll growth was… Continue Reading
Cities leverage open data to share wealth of info with citizens
Bianca Spinosa, July 10, 2015: “Government agencies have no shortage of shareable data. Data.gov, the open-data clearinghouse that launched in May 2009, had more than 147,331 datasets as of mid-July, and state and local governments are joining federal agencies in releasing ever-broader arrays of information. The challenge, however, remains making all that data usable. Obama… Continue Reading
Filmmaker Laura Poitras suing to shine light on travel detainment
Via The Intercept: “Over six years, filmmaker Laura Poitras was searched, interrogated and detained more than 50 times at U.S. and foreign airports. When she asked why, U.S. agencies wouldn’t say. Now, after receiving no response to her Freedom of Information Act requests for documents pertaining to her systemic targeting, Poitras is suing the U.S.… Continue Reading
NSA collected and stored social media, email, chats of non targeted Americans
Via The Atlantic – “The Washington Post’s latest article drawing on Snowden’s leaked cache of documents includes files “described as useless by the analysts but nonetheless retained” that “tell stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes. The daily lives of more than 10,000… Continue Reading
Census reports on Living Arrangements of Adults
“A new table looks at the living arrangements of the adult population 18 years and older. Table AD-3 describes the living arrangements of people in the United States by age and sex since 1967. Continue Reading
