News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), joined by the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is recognizing the Friday before Memorial Day as Dont Fry Day, to encourage Americans to take a few simple steps to protect their… Continue Reading
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Report – The Condition of Education 2013
“The Condition of Education 2013 [May 2013] summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report presents 42 indicators on the status and condition of education, in addition to Spotlights that look more closely at 4 issues of current interest. The indicators represent a consensus of professional judgment on the… Continue Reading
Speech – Lessons at the Zero Bound: The Japanese and U.S. Experience
Lessons at the Zero Bound: The Japanese and U.S. Experience, May 21, 2013. William C. Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer/NY Fed. Remarks at the Japan Society, New York City. “The monetary and fiscal stimulus that was provided helped Japan avoid a deep recession. But expectations about future nominal income growth for both households and… Continue Reading
NYC Department of Records Online Archives – access to over 800,000 photos, records, maps
“Welcome to the New York City Municipal Archives Online Gallery. This ever-expanding gallery is your entry point into the vast visual holdings of the Archives. The Online Gallery provides free and open research access to over 800,000 items digitized from the Municipal Archives collections, including photographs, maps, motion-pictures and audio recordings. The holdings are arranged… Continue Reading
Congress.gov, currently in beta test, to eventually replace THOMAS
Library of Congress Magazine: “The Law Library and CRS, working with the Library’s web services experts, maintain THOMAS, the Internet-accessible database that makes legislative information-bills, resolutions, treaties and the Congressional Record-available to Congress and the public. Congress.gov, a beta website operated jointly by the Library of Congress, the House, the Senate and the other legislative… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Performance Management and Oversight, Hazardous Waste Cleanup, Spectrum Management, VA Education Benefits,
Government Efficiency and Effectiveness – Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication through Enhanced Performance Management and Oversight, GAO-13-590T, May 22, 2013 Hazardous Waste Cleanup – Observations on States’ Role, Liabilities at DOD and Hardrock Mining Sites, and Litigation Issues, GAO-13-633T, May 22, 2013 Spectrum Management – Federal Relocation Costs and Auction Revenues, GAO-13-472, May… Continue Reading
TRAC: Decisions on ICE Detainees Vary Widely by State
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: “Of the 1,500 individuals taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on a typical work day, the latest ICE data record that about 1,000 were eventually “removed” — deported and barred from returning to the U.S. for years. About 360 individuals were released after posting bond, on their own… Continue Reading
The 2011 FDIC assessment on banks managed liabilities: interest rate and balance-sheet responses
The 2011 FDIC assessment on banks managed liabilities: interest rate and balance-sheet responses by Lawrence L Kreicher, Robert N McCauley and Patrick McGuire, Working Papers No 413, May 2013 “The global financial crisis led to discussion of corrective bank taxes to promote financial stability. This paper interprets the widening of the FDIC assessment base from… Continue Reading
"EFF Takes FOIA Fight Over Secret Wiretaps to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court"
“Today, EFF filed a motion in a secret court. This secret court isnt in a developing nation, struggling beneath a dictatorship. Its not in a country experimenting for the first time with a judiciary and the rule of law. And, as Wired recently noted, its not in Iran or Venezuela, as one might expect. No,… Continue Reading
TRAC: Civil Filing Information for April 2013
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: “There were 27,588 new civil court suits filed in federal district courts during the month of April 2013, up 14.9 percent from March. Contributing significantly to this increase were over 1,500 filings in the Eastern District of Louisiana (New Orleans) under the Oil Pollution Act, 33 USC 2701, presumably related to… Continue Reading
Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee Testimony by Chairman Bernanke on the economic outlook
“The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on April 30-May 1, 2013. The minutes for each regularly scheduled meeting of the Committee ordinarily are made available three weeks after the day of the policy decision and subsequently are published in the… Continue Reading
NextGov: Massive Catalog of Streaming Government Data Set to Launch
NextGov: “Government data officials have nearly completed an exhaustive list of nearly 300 application programming interfaces that will allow outsiders to stream up-to-date information from government agencies straight to their computers, websites and mobile apps. The final version of the federal API catalog will be released Thursday on the government dataset trove Data.gov to mark… Continue Reading
