Federal Computer Week, Chase Gunter: “…While many agencies have indeed moved to HTTPS, 31 percent of the approximately 1,200 .gov domains monitored by the Pulse dashboard have not completed these conversions…To help transitioning agencies, GSA also launched a help site that provides technical advice and assistance, and “works directly with federal staff who are working… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2017
Survey of Business Owners: U.S. Exporting Firms Tables
“This release combines 2012 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) data with the 2012 Profile of U.S. Exporting Companies. This combined data product provides a look at the ownership characteristics (specifically, gender, ethnicity and race) of exporting companies. These data were first produced in 2007.” Continue Reading
Ranks of Super Rich Grew in 2014
WSj via FastCompany – “There’s no need to panic—the rich are doing fine. According to new data from the Internal Revenue Service, income reported on tax returns for the 400 wealthiest individuals rose 20% in 2014, the Wall Street Journal reports. The significant income boost reveals what many of us already suspected: The rich are getting… Continue Reading
COIN: A Study of Strategic Illusion
Etzioni, Amitai, COIN: A Study of Strategic Illusion (March 12, 2015). Small Wars & Insurgencies, 26:3, 345-376, 2015.. Available for download at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2577457 “Has the United States military become a learning institution, one able to transition from relying on a conventional war model to fighting against irregular adversaries such as insurgents and terrorists? This… Continue Reading
French workers win legal right to avoid checking work email out-of-hours
Agence France-Presse via The Guardian – “From 1 January, workers have ‘right to disconnect’ as France seeks to establish agreements that afford work flexibility but avoid burnout woman checks her phone while lying in bed From Sunday, French companies will be required to guarantee their employees a “right to disconnect” from technology as the country… Continue Reading
Commentary – How Social Isolation Is Killing Us
Dhruv Khullar, New York Times 12-22-16 – “Social isolation is a growing epidemic — one that’s increasingly recognized as having dire physical, mental and emotional consequences. Since the 1980s, the percentage of American adults who say they’re lonely has doubled from 20 percent to 40 percent. About one-third of Americans older than 65 now live… Continue Reading
Science reports American Community Survey and Census Bureau lack funding
Jeffrey Mervis – Census: “Add the U.S. Census Bureau to the list of government agencies whose activities may be threatened by the election of Donald Trump and the new Congress. The bureau has traditionally maintained a fairly low profile among federal agencies. At the same time, it symbolizes many things that the president-elect and congressional… Continue Reading
Legislative History of “Repeal and Replacement” of the Obamacare: Overview
This guide as created and is maintained by experts at the The Legal Research Center, Drexel School of Law. “The election of 2016 saw the GOP obtain control of the presidency and retain control of both chambers of Congress. This created an opportunity for Republicans to “repeal and replace” the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA),… Continue Reading
OPM 2017 Salary Tables and Effective Date
OPM news release: “We have posted the 2017 salary tables on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM’s) website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/. The 2017 pay schedules will become effective the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2017 (January 8, 2017, based on the standard biweekly payroll cycle). The… Continue Reading
NIST Periodic Table of the Elements
Periodic Table of the Elements – 2016 periodic table Version History | Database Disclaimer R.A. Dragoset, A. Musgrove, C.W. Clark, and W.C. Martin NIST, Physical Measurement Laboratory “A periodic table, containing NIST critically-evaluated data on atomic properties of the elements was designed as a NIST handout for use at exhibitions and trade shows. The publication… Continue Reading
24/7 Wall St – The World’s 31 Mega-Cities
“The share of the world’s population living in cities is steadily increasing. A majority of the world’s population has lived in an urban setting since 2007. This trend of urbanization will likely continue — an estimated two of every three people will be living in a city by 2050. To identify the largest cities in… Continue Reading
Updated Household Projections, 2015 – 2035: Methodology and Results
“Using new Census Bureau projections and a revised methodology for predicting headship rates, this paper updates the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies’ (JCHS) household projections for 2015 to 2035. The paper incorporates new population projections from the US Census Bureau that are substantially larger than the Census Bureau’s previous projections.The paper also makes… Continue Reading
