Supplemental 2012 Temperature and Precipitation Information 2012 by the numbers Year-to-date temperature evolution for select U.S. cities Year-to-date temperature evolution for the contiguous U.S. Annual and seasonal statewide temperatures 2012 station temperature and precipitation extremes All-time station temperature records set in 2012 Evolution of monthly temperature anomalies and evolution of 2012 drought conditions 100°F days… Continue Reading
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New on LLRX – Knowledge Discovery Resources 2013
Via LLRX.com – Knowledge Discovery Resources 2013 – An Internet Annotated Link Dataset Compilation – Marcus P. Zillman’s current annotated link compilation encompasses top value-added resources for knowledge discovery available through the Internet. The selected resources and sites provide a wide range of actionable knowledge and avenues for information discovery to leverage as part of… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Board Annual Report 2011
98th Report, 2011: Report on operations of the Board during the year. Provides minutes of Federal Open Market Committee meetings, financial statements of the Board and combined financial statements of the Reserve Banks, financial statements for Federal Reserve priced services, information on other services provided by the Reserve Banks, directories of Federal Reserve officials and… Continue Reading
FRASER Digital Collection on Government Debt
“Government debt is the debt owed by the United States government, and is money borrowed through government securities and federal government agencies. U.S. public debt comes from debt held by the public and debt held by government accounts. This debt has a limit on the total amount of bonds that can be issued, known as… Continue Reading
FBI Records Update: Attempted Assassination of President Ronald Reagan
“On March 31, 1981, John W. Hinckley, Jr., shot President Ronald Reagan and several others in a failed assassination attempt. The FBI conducted an extensive investigation, named REAGAT. This FOIA release consists of an extensive Prosecutive Report submitted by the FBI to the Department of Justice in May 1981 as Justice lawyers considered how to… Continue Reading
Global Security Contingency Fund: Summary and Issue Overview
CRS – Global Security Contingency Fund: Summary and Issue Overview. Nina M. Serafino, Specialist in International Security Affairs, January 22, 2013 “The FY2012 National Defense Authorization Act (P.L. 112-81), Section 1207, created a new Global Security Contingency Fund (GSCF) as a four-year pilot project to be jointly administered and funded by the Department of Defense… Continue Reading
Assessing the Macroeconomic Impact of Structural Reforms The Case of Italy
IMF – Assessing the Macroeconomic Impact of Structural Reforms The Case of Italy, Lusine Lusinyan and Dirk Muir. January 24, 2013 “Wide-ranging structural reforms are underway in Italy, aimed at addressing key bottlenecks in the product and labor markets. Our analysis, based on the IMFs Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal model (GIMF), attempts to quantify… Continue Reading
Receipt of Unemployment Insurance by Higher-Income Unemployed Workers
CRS – Receipt of Unemployment Insurance by Higher-Income Unemployed Workers (Millionaires). Donald Hirasuna, Analyst in Labor Policy, January 23, 2013 To inform the ongoing policy debate, this report provides information relevant to proposals that would restrict the payment of unemployment benefits to individuals with high incomes. Three primary areas that may be of interest to… Continue Reading
Tax Havens: International Tax Avoidance and Evasion
CRS – Tax Havens: International Tax Avoidance and Evasion. Jane G. Gravelle, Senior Specialist in Economic Policy, January 23, 2013 “Multinational firms can artificially shift profits from high-tax to low-tax jurisdictions using a variety of techniques, such as shifting debt to high-tax jurisdictions. Since tax on the income of foreign subsidiaries (except for certain passive… Continue Reading
America's Children and the Environment, Third Edition
“Americas Children and the Environment, Third Edition; Appendices to the Report (data tables, metadata, alignment of ACE3 indicators with Healthy People 2020 objectives) is an EPA report that presents key information on environmental stressors that can affect childrens health. In January 2013, EPA released an updated third edition of this report (ACE3) that shows the… Continue Reading
UK – Recession hits workplaces, but not employee attitudes
National Institute of Economic and Social Research: “According to the latest Workplace Employment Relations Study, the recession has had a profound impact on Britain’s workplaces. In many workplaces, managers have responded with changes in their staffing practices, with one third (33%) of employees seeing their wages frozen or cut and 29% seeing their workload increased.… Continue Reading
MappyHealth – We are tracking disease trends, 140 characters at a time
“MappyHealth mines twitter data looking for health term trends. It is hypothesized that social data could be a predictor to outbreaks of disease. We track disease terms and associated qualifiers to present these social trends. We have found that every term and condition trend tracked on our site has a band of social noise. This… Continue Reading
