“Statistics from the 2014 Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) indicate that manufacturing establishments show gains in receipts but lower employment over time. The infographic contains three visualizations, including a time-series graph of changes in employment and receipts from 2002-2014, a comparison of employment and receipts by subsector for the years 2013 and 2014, and a… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: May 2016
GAO Reports – Disaster Recovery, DoD Financial Management, Human Trafficking, Immigration Detention, Imported Food Safety, Rail Grant Oversight
Disaster Recovery: FEMA Needs to Assess Its Effectiveness in Implementing the National Disaster Recovery Framework, GAO-16-476: Published: May 26, 2016. Publicly Released: May 26, 2016. DOD Financial Management: Greater Visibility Needed to Better Assess Audit Readiness for Property, Plant, and Equipment, GAO-16-383: Published: May 26, 2016. Publicly Released: May 26, 2016. Human Trafficking: Actions Taken… Continue Reading
How the Internet works: Submarine fiber, brains in jars, and coaxial cables
Via Ars Technica – this is a must read for all researchers – we must not take for granted that the internet is always on, secure, and not subject to monumental disruption from human, environmental, hardware/software and geopolitical factors to name just a few. “A deep dive into Internet infrastructure, plus a rare visit to… Continue Reading
Congress.gov adds RSS and email alerts for researchers
Via Emily Carr, LC – “…new email alerts and RSS feeds are now available from Congress.gov. For more details, see New Email Alerts and RSS Feeds on Congress.gov: “Building on those email alerts, there is now an additional set of email alerts and the first RSS feeds that you can subscribe to from Congress.gov Most-Viewed Bills (email |… Continue Reading
First Global Registry of Beneficial Ownership Launched
“TRACE International is pleased to introduce TRACEpublic, the first global registry of beneficial ownership. Developed in direct response to the risks inherent in secret company ownership, TRACEpublic enables companies to voluntarily and publicly provide their ownership information as a means to enhance corporate transparency and facilitate meaningful due diligence. Although identifying the beneficial owners of third party intermediaries, joint venture partners, distributers, suppliers and agents is… Continue Reading
Conference Board – Rebound in Global Productivity Growth Not in Sight
Data Sources & Methods Archive “Productivity developments in 2015 – Growth in global output per worker slowed down in 2015, mainly because of a slowdown in output growth in emerging markets and developing economies: Productivity in resources-rich economies in Latin America, Africa and Russia is declining on the back of declining oil prices China’s labor… Continue Reading
Legal Information Institute and Justia provide new home for Oyez Project
Follow up to previous posting – Founder of Oyez.org seeks new manager and large purchase price – via Law.com – ‘Oyez Project’ New Home Will Keep Supreme Court Audio Free to Public‘ “The project is now housed at Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago under an agreement that expires soon. By the time the new… Continue Reading
Working Longer: Aging, Work, and Retirement Planning in America
AP release: “Retirement Planning in America: Anxiety, Inequality, and the Role of Social Security, focuses on attitudes and planning behaviors about retirement. The results reveal a number of inequalities in older Americans’ retirement planning, with significant divides between lower- and upper-income Americans. Income levels and feelings of anxiety are also related to the type and… Continue Reading
Troubled Water: A Map of Tomorrow’s Thirsty Future
Via Pacific Standard: Troubled Water: A Map of Tomorrow’s Thirsty Future A survey of regional water crises: community stress and political standoffs “North America – The Ogallala aquifer provides nearly one-third of the groundwater used for irrigation in the United States. In 2013, researchers estimated that, at current rates, farming in places like Kansas is… Continue Reading
Open-access index delists thousands of journals
Baker, M. (2016). Open-access index delists thousands of journals Nature DOI: 10.1038/nature. Van Noorden, R. (2014). Open-access website gets tough Nature, 512 (7512), 17-17 DOI: 10.1038/512017a Morrison, Heather, 2014-03, “Dramatic Growth of Open Access”, http://hdl.handle.net/10864/10660 Morrison, Heather; V11. “A leading index of open-access journals is set to shrink by more than one-quarter after delisting around… Continue Reading
Fo First Time in Modern Era, Living With Parents Edges Out Other Living Arrangements for 18- to 34-Year-Olds
“Broad demographic shifts in marital status, educational attainment and employment have transformed the way young adults in the U.S. are living, and a new Pew Research Center analysis of census data highlights the implications of these changes for the most basic element of their lives – where they call home. In 2014, for the first… Continue Reading
LexisNexis Introduces New, Interactive Rule of Law Awareness Tool
“LexisNexis Legal & Professional today launches an interactive online tool that shows how the rule of law is measured and why it’s important. This first-of-its-kind data tool, the LexisNexis Rule of Law Impact Tracker, quantifies the relationship between rule of law and social and economic development. According to the United Nations, approximately 4 billion people… Continue Reading
