Political Typology Reveals Deep Fissures on the Right and Left Conservative Republican groups divided on immigration, ‘openness’: “Nearly a year after Donald Trump was elected president, the Republican coalition is deeply divided on such major issues as immigration, America’s role in the world and the fundamental fairness of the U.S. economic system. The Democratic coalition… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: October 2017
Climate Change: Information on Potential Economic Effects Could Help Guide Federal Efforts to Reduce Fiscal Exposure
Climate Change: Information on Potential Economic Effects Could Help Guide Federal Efforts to Reduce Fiscal Exposure, GAO-17-720: Published: Sep 28, 2017. Publicly Released: Oct 24, 2017. “Climate-related impacts, such as coastal property damage, have already cost the federal government billions of dollars, and these costs will likely rise in the future. We found that information… Continue Reading
Study – Waiting periods and gun deaths
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences – Waiting periods and gun deaths. Michael Luca, September 21, 2017. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1619896114 “Each year, more than 33,000 gun-related deaths occur in the United States. Waiting period laws have the potential to deter gun violence by delaying the acquisition of a firearm. Michael Luca et al. compared the… Continue Reading
Occupational Outlook Handbook Updated October 2017
“The OOH can help you find career information on duties, education and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations.” Updated October 24, 2017. Contrary to news and prevailing sentiment: “Employment of librarians is projected to grow 9 percent from 2016 to 2026, about as fast as the average for all occupations [emphasis added]. Communities… Continue Reading
Employment is projected to grow by 11.5 million from 2016 to 2026, led by health care
BLS: “Employment is projected to increase by 11.5 million over the 2016-26 decade, an increase from 156.1 million to 167.6 million, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This growth–0.7 percent annually–is faster than the 0.5 percent rate of growth during the 2006–16 decade, a period heavily affected by the 2007–09 recession. Health care… Continue Reading
GPO and LC Digital Release of Historical Congressional Record For 1911-1921
“The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) partners with the Library of Congress to release the digital version of the bound Congressional Record from 1911-1921 on GPO’s (https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/crecb_gpo/_crecb). This release covers the debates and proceedings of the 62nd through the 66th Congresses. This era of Congress covers historical topics such as: The final year of the… Continue Reading
2017 Municipal Equality Index
Human Rights Campaign – “HRC in partnership with the Equality Federation Institute, released its sixth annual Municipal Equality Index (MEI), assessing LGBTQ equality in 506 cities across the nation, including seven in Wisconsin. The 2017 Municipal Equality Index, the only nationwide rating system of LGBTQ inclusion in municipal law and policy, shows that cities across the… Continue Reading
Google AI is learning human movements using video dataset
Quartz: “Google, which owns YouTube, announced on Oct. 19 a new dataset of film clips, designed to teach machines how humans move in the world. Called AVA, or “atomic visual actions,” the videos aren’t anything special to human eyes—they’re three second clips of people drinking water and cooking curated from YouTube. But each clip is… Continue Reading
FERC Proposes New Security Management Controls for Grid Cyber Systems
“The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) [on October 19, 2017] proposed new cyber security management controls to further enhance the reliability and resilience of the nation’s bulk electric system. These include mandatory controls to address the risks posed by malware from transient electronic devices like laptop computers, thumb drives and other devices used at low-impact… Continue Reading
Commentary – The Supreme Court Is Allergic To Math
Oliver Roeder on FiveThirtyEight: “The Supreme Court does not compute. Or at least some of its members would rather not. The justices, the most powerful jurists in the land, seem to have a reluctance — even an allergy — to taking math and statistics seriously. For decades, the court has struggled with quantitative evidence of… Continue Reading
Zillow – Climate Change and Homes: Who Would Lose the Most to a Rising Tide?
From an article by Lauren Bretz, October 18, 2017: One-third (32 percent) of underwater homes would be valued in the bottom third nationally, meaning $123 billion in losses. Two in five (39 percent) underwater homes would be valued in the top third nationally, translating to $597 billion in lost high-end real estate. In rural and… Continue Reading
White House deleted chat and social apps from government devices
FCW.com: “White House officials no longer have text or social media messaging apps on their official phones because of records management headaches, according to a letter from a key House oversight official. The news came in an account of an Oct. 18 staff briefing on the administration’s records management practices from three officials in the… Continue Reading
