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“A new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation counters the popular misperception that the steady rise in Medicare Advantage enrollment has been driven by members of the Baby Boom generation overwhelmingly choosing the private plans as they become eligible for Medicare. Instead, the study finds that a majority of new enrollees in Medicare Advantage in …
Bank for International Settlements: “This is an annual publication that provides data on payments and payment, clearing and settlement systems in the CPMI countries. This version of the statistical update contains data for 2013 and earlier years. There are detailed tables for each individual country as well as a number of comparative tables. A preliminary version was …
“Data provide critical inputs in designing effective development policy recommendations, supporting their implementation, and evaluating results. In this new report “Big Data in Action for Development,” the World Bank Group collaborated with Second Muse, a global innovation agency, to explore big data’s transformative potential for socioeconomic development. The report develops a conceptual framework to work …
Via 18F: “There are a lot of .gov domains: over 5,300 of them. About 1,300 of these are used by the federal government’s executive, legislative, and judicial branches. The rest are spread across states, territories, counties, cities, and native tribes. For a while now, the public has been able to download a dataset of the roughly …
This Proposed Rule document was issued by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) For related information, Open Docket Folder Action Proposed rule and 12-month finding. Due Jan 27 2015. Summary – “We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a proposed rule and a 12-month finding on a petition to list the African lion (Panthera leo leo) as …
BLS Monthly Labor Review – “Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this article examines the process of household formation for young adults born between 1980 and 1984. The analysis finds that, by age 27, about 90 percent of these individuals had left their parental households at least once and more than …
Human Capital: OPM Needs to Better Analyze and Manage Dual Compensation Waiver Data, GAO-15-252: Published: Dec 29, 2014. Publicly Released: Jan 5, 2015. Social Security Disability Benefits: Agency Could Improve Oversight of Representatives Providing Disability Advocacy Services, GAO-15-62: Published: Dec 3, 2014. Publicly Released: Jan 5, 2015.
Update to my posting New on LLRX – Tell the FCC to Require Read-Aloud for Future Kindles and Other E Ink Devices – via author David Rothman – the most recent version of the LibraryCity post with mention of an unofficial January 9, 2015 deadline and a link to the FCC’s easy comment form. You need to submit formally. The …
