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News release: “From cell phone location tracking to the use of surveillance drones, from secret interpretations of electronic surveillance law to the expanding use of biometrics, EFF has long been at the forefront of the push for greater transparency on the governments increasingly secretive use of new technologies. With the launch of our new Transparency …
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC): “The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Justice Department has just released a report criticizing the statistics of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). Lost in the news coverage of the OIG’s report are several important points: First, in criticizing the EOIR numbers, the OIG’s report doesn’t acknowledge …
Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office: “At the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks at MIT in November, Associate Professor Devavrat Shah and his student Stanislav Nikolov will present a new algorithm that can, with 95 percent accuracy, predict which topics will trend an average of an hour and a half before Twitters …
What time do the polls close? All times are Eastern Time
Taxes and the Economy: An Economic Analysis of the Top Tax Rates Since 1945. Thomas L. Hungerford, Specialist in Public Finance, September 14, 2012 “Income tax rates have been at the center of recent policy debates over taxes. Some policymakers have argued that raising tax rates, especially on higher income taxpayers, to increase tax revenues …
How Teens Do Research in the Digital World – by Kristen Purcell, Lee Rainie, Alan Heaps, Judy Buchanan, Linda Friedrich, Amanda Jacklin, Clara Chen, Kathryn Zickuhr, Nov 1, 2012. The teachers who instruct the most advanced American secondary school students render mixed verdicts about students research habits and the impact of technology on their studies. …
A new street code for New York cyclists – post Sandy, residents dust off their bicycles and hit the streets to get to their destinations.
“The FAS is the sole source of global supply-side data on financial inclusion, encompassing internationally-comparable basic indicators of financial access and usage. In addition to providing policy makers and researchers with annual geographic and demographic data on access to basic consumer financial services worldwide, the FAS is the data source for the G-20 Basic Set …
International Finance Corporation, World Bank: “Doing Business 2013: Smarter Regulations for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises assesses regulations affecting domestic firms in 185 economies and ranks the economies in 10 areas of business regulation, such as starting a business, resolving insolvency and trading across borders. This years report data cover regulations measured from June 2011 through …
News release: “The years string of weird weather what weather professionals generally refer to as anomalies appears to have had some significant impact on Americans attitudes toward global warming as a factor in determining every-day weather, according to new survey results. A question that arises now and in coming cooler months involves just …
Issues Paper 3 – Financial Inclusion A Pathway to Financial Stability? Understanding the Linkages, Oct 26, 2012 Issues Paper 2 – Proportionality in Practice across the Standard-Setting Bodies: Applying Standards and Guidance while Supporting a Financial Inclusion Agenda, Oct 26, 2012 Issues Paper 1 – Standard-Setting Body Engagement on Financial Inclusion: Progress and Challenges, …
News release: “Unemployment rates were lower in September than a year earlier in 345 of the 372 metropolitan areas, higher in 22 areas, and unchanged in 5 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Two areas recorded jobless rates of at least 15.0 percent, while 41 areas registered rates of less than 5.0 …
