“The online database OECD Health Statistics 2016 was released on June 30 and all datasets have been updated on October 12. The OECD Health Database offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries. It is an essential tool to carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from international comparisons of diverse health systems.”
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Daily Archives: December 8, 2016
Hate Index Tracking the Toll of Intolerance Post-Election 2016
“What is The Hate Index? The Hate Index represents a journalistic effort to chronicle hate crimes and other acts of intolerance since the Nov. 8, 2016 Presidential Election victory of Republicans Donald Trump and Mike Pence over Democrats Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine. The idea is to tally as many verifiable incidents as possible, and… Continue Reading
Options for Reducing the Deficit: 2017 to 2026
“The Congress faces an array of policy choices as it confronts the challenges posed by the amount of federal debt held by the public—which has more than doubled relative to the size of the economy since 2007—and the prospect of continued growth in that debt over the coming decades if the large annual budget deficits… Continue Reading
TIME 100 – The Most Influential Images of All Time
TIME: “Though photography is a much younger medium than painting—the first photo is widely considered to date from 1826—the astonishing technological advances since then mean that there are now far more pictures taken every day than there are canvases in all the world’s galleries and museums. In 2016 alone, hundreds of billions of images were… Continue Reading
American dream of exceeding income of parents drops to 50% for children born in 1985
Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States – Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics); Emmanuel Saez (UC Berkeley and NBER); Gabriel Zucman (UC Berkeley and NBER). December 2, 2016 Abstract – “This paper combines tax, survey, and national accounts data to estimate the distribution of national income in the United States since… Continue Reading
Library of Congress – Chronicling America searchable newspaper archive
“Search America’s historic newspaper pages from 1789-1924 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. Learn more. Continue Reading
New Publications Examine Harmful Speech Online
“The Harmful Speech Online project at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to announce a new set of publications authored by a global and multidisciplinary group of project collaborators within our community. Harmful speech is proliferating online, and calls to restrain it come from virtually every country and community. Over the… Continue Reading
BNA 2017 Outlook on IP Privacy Tech and Telecom
“2017 promises to set the course for potentially seismic regulatory shifts due to the incoming Trump administration’s policies and a shifting European regulatory mindset. From new administration regulatory shifts that will impact corporate giants such as AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp. to the way U.S. multinationals do business with Europe, 2017 will likely bring legal and regulatory changes… Continue Reading
LC to harvest Twitter account of Donald J. Trump
“As part of its web archiving program (https://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/), the Library of Congress is harvesting the Twitter account of Donald J. Trump as part of a collection for the 2016 election. The Library of Congress anticipates continuing to harvest this Twitter account if President Elect Trump continues to use it in addition to, or perhaps instead… Continue Reading
