Day archives: February 6th, 2013

Clearspending.org – Keeping Tabs on USASpending.gov

ClearSpending Background on Federal Spending Reporting Systems: “Clearspending analyzes the quality of data in USASpending.gov. To fully understand our analysis — and to understand why it’s necessary — it is important to know the history of the systems that have evolved into USASpending.gov. The infrastructure used to track federal spending has been steadily growing over …

Subjects: Government Documents

EPIC Urges Public Support for Driver Privacy Safeguards

“The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has proposed regulations for event data recorders (EDR) that will become mandatory in all cars and small trucks by 2014. Building on state privacy laws, EPIC has urged the federal agency to adopt comprehensive privacy safeguards for vehicle owners and operators, including driver ownership of data, limitations on disclosure, …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Privacy

BIS – Understanding Global Liquidity

Understanding Global Liquidity, by Sandra Eickmeier, Leonardo Gambacorta and Boris Hofmann. Working Papers No 402, February 2013 “We explore the concept of global liquidity based on a factor model estimated using a large set of financial and macroeconomic variables from 24 advanced and emerging market economies. We measure global liquidity conditions based on the common …

Subjects: Government Documents

Pew – Coming and Going on Facebook

Report: Social Networking – Coming and Going on Facebook, by Lee Rainie, Aaron Smith, Maeve Duggan, Feb 5, 2013. “Two-thirds of online American adults (67%) are Facebook users, making Facebook the dominant social networking site in this country. And new findings from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project indicate there is considerable …

Subjects: Internet

CRS – The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC)

The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC), Christine Scott, Specialist in Social Policy, February 4, 2013 “The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is meant to induce employers to hire members of families receiving benefits under the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program and other groups thought to experience employment problems regardless of general economic conditions …

Subjects: Government Documents

Report – As Traffic Jams Worsen, Commuters Allowing Extra Time for Urgent Trips

“As traffic congestion continues to worsen, the time required for a given trip becomes more unpredictable, and researchers now have a way to measure that degree of unreliability, introduced for the first time as part of the annual Urban Mobility Report (UMR), published by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). The Planning Time Index (PTI), …

Subjects: Government Documents