Day archives: November 24th, 2016

Kasier – Key Medicaid Questions Post-Election

“Medicaid covers about 73 million people nationwide.  Jointly financed by the federal and state governments, states have substantial flexibility to administer the program under existing law.  Medicaid provides health insurance for low-income children and adults, financing for the safety net, and is the largest payer for long-term care services in the community and nursing homes …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management

Socrata Announces Free, Open and Public Tool using Valuable Commerce Datasets

“The open data movement has been alive at the Department of Commerce for a very long time. The predecessors to the National Weather Service have been providing open weather reports since the founding of our nation and regular weather reports have been around since the early 1900s. The Census Bureau, one of our nation’s leading …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Survey – A Quarter of American Adults Volunteered in 2015

“Approximately a quarter of all American adults volunteered through an organization in 2015, while nearly two-thirds helped their neighbors in some manner, an annual report from the Corporation for National and Community Service finds. According to the report, Volunteering and Civic Life in America, 62.6 million adults (24.9 percent) volunteered in 2015, providing nearly 7.8 …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

WaPo – Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election

Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say – Craig Timberg –  “Researchers found that Russians used sophisticated tools to boost Donald Trump and target Hillary Clinton, and exploited various platforms to attack U.S. democracy at a particularly vulnerable moment. The techniques may complicate efforts by Facebook and Google to crack down …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

UK bill opens government sweeping access to citizen browsing history

Belfast Telegraph – “The Investigatory Powers Bill…forces internet providers to keep a full list of Internet Connection Records (ICRs) for a year, and make them available to the government if it asks….Those include expected law enforcement organisations like the police, the military and the secret service – but also contain bodies like the Food Standards …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Internet, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy