“The Federal Reserve Bank of New York today launched its monthly Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE), which contains insight into Americans’ views on inflation, prices, the labor market and household finances. The just released survey for December 2013 shows that consumer expectations for overall inflation and home prices remained stable in recent months. Median earnings and household… Continue Reading
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Prisoners In 2012: Trends In Admissions And Releases, 1991-2012
“The total U.S. correctional population (on probation, parole, in prison or jail) decreased for the fourth consecutive year during 2012 (down 51,000 offenders or 0.7 percent), the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced [December 19, 2013]. This was the smallest decrease in the population since 2009. Nearly the entire drop in the total correctional population during 2012… Continue Reading
HuffPo: James Risen Takes His Press Freedom Fight To The Supreme Court
Jack Mirkinson: “New York Times reporter James Risen said Monday that he has formally taken his legal battle to prevent him from having to reveal confidential sources all the way to the Supreme Court. Risen was ordered last year to testify in the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA agent charged with leaking classified information… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Clean Water Act, Cruise Vessels, Space Acquisitions, VA Surgical Implants
CLEAN WATER ACT – Changes Needed If Key EPA Program Is to Help Fulfill the Nation’s Water Quality Goals, GAO-14-80, Dec 5, 2013 CRUISE VESSELS – Most Required Security and Safety Measures Have Been Implemented, but Concerns Remain About Crime Reporting, GAO-14-43, Dec 20, 2013 SPACE ACQUISITIONS – Assessment of Overhead Persistent Infrared Technology Report, GAO-14-287R, Jan 13, 2014 VA… Continue Reading
GAO Report – IT DASHBOARD: Agencies Are Managing Investment Risk
Agencies Are Managing Investment Risk, but Related Ratings Need to Be More Accurate and Available, GAO-14-64, Dec 12, 2013 “As of August 2013, the Chief Information Officers (CIO) at the eight selected agencies rated 198 of their 244 major information technology (IT) investments listed on the Federal IT Dashboard (Dashboard) as low risk or moderately low… Continue Reading
Ancient human ancestor ‘Nutcracker Man’ lived on tiger nuts
“An Oxford University study has concluded that our ancient ancestors who lived in East Africa between 2.4 million and 1.4 million years ago survived mainly on a diet of tiger nuts. Tiger nuts are edible grass bulbs still eaten in parts of the world today. The study, published in the journal PLOS One, also suggests that these early… Continue Reading
Results from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Mental Health Findings
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Results from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Mental Health Findings, NSDUH Series H-47, HHS Publication No. (SMA) 13-4805. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2013. “In 2012, an estimated 43.7 million adults aged 18 or older in the United States had any mental… Continue Reading
New Report on Women and Poverty in America available free until January 15, 2013
The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink “reveals this national crisis through the eyes of women. In an era when women have solidified their position as half of the U.S. workforce and a whopping two-thirds of the primary or co-breadwinners in American families, the reality is that a third of all American… Continue Reading
State Regulations and Their Protection of Electronic Book Data
A New Approach to Digital Reader Privacy: State Regulations and Their Protection of Electronic Book Data, Andrew A. Proia. Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 88, No. 4, 2013. “On October 3, 2011, California Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Reader Privacy Act into law. Currently, book service providers within California are prohibited from disclosing to third parties personal… Continue Reading
ESET Releases Annual Threat Trends Predictions for 2014
“ESET, the global leader in proactive digital protection…has released today its annual predictions for the threatscape in the upcoming year Trends 2014 – The Challenge of Internet Privacy. This year, in wake of revelations of Edward Snowden related to the US National Security Agency (NSA), the main topic focuses on the growing concern expressed by… Continue Reading
E-Government Information and Public Access – Impact of the government shutdown
Via LLRX – E-Government Information and Public Access: Online electronic government information and the impact of the government shutdown on public access Crystal Vicente’s paper focuses on the impact of the dramatic termination of e-government access during the October 2013 federal funding gap that resulted in a shutdown of government processes. As she documents, the public’s access… Continue Reading
Small San Francisco mobile company first to release transparency report
Wired – Kim Zetter: “A small telecom believed to be at the center of a historic court battle over government surveillance published its first transparency report on Thursday, noting that it had received 16 government requests for customer data in 2013. But the report may be most significant for what it doesn’t say. Credo Mobile, the… Continue Reading
