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“If current laws governing taxes and spending did not change, the United States would face steadily increasing federal budget deficits and debt over the next 30 years, according to projections by CBO. Federal debt held by the public, which was equal to 39 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of fiscal year …
Via Bloomberg: “As you may have suspected, your car is spying on you. Fire up a new model and it updates more than 100,000 data points, including rather personal details like the front-seat passenger’s weight. The navigation system tracks every mile and remembers your route to work. The vehicular brain is smart enough to help …
Via RollCall, Luisita Lopez Torregrosa, a journalist and writer based in New York City, is a professor at Fordham University:For the second time in more than half a century, Dallas is at the center of a seminal moment in our history. It’s a moment set against imploding national anxiety and anger, stark racial divisions, black-and-white …
Via RollCall: “The Library of Congress could soon have the first African American and first woman chief librarian in its 200-year history. But some employees worry that the expected arrival of Carla D. Hayden won’t be enough to end a decades-long struggle with discrimination and diversity in its workforce. “Yeah, she’d make history,” said Priscilla …
D-Lib Magazine July/August 2016 Volume 22, Number 7/8 Analysis of International Linked Data Survey for Implementers, Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research DOI: 10.1045/july2016-smith-yoshimura “The International Linked Data Survey for Implementers conducted by OCLC Research in 2014 and 2015 attracted responses from 90 institutions in 20 countries. This analysis of the 112 linked data projects or services …
Via the Greenlining Institute: “Despite a congressional mandate to pay more attention to diversity within federal financial regulatory agencies, Greenlining found that these agencies generally lack diversity at executive and upper management levels and often lack the systems needed to track progress. Greenlining examined 2014 data from eight agencies that oversee banking and financial businesses. …
“In a review of its systemic program over the past 10 years, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reports significant success in advancing workplace opportunity by tackling systemic discrimination…. “As a direct result of EEOC’s systemic work, more than 71,000 workers have received jobs and recovered lost wages, and many more have benefited from …
“Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Israel, Singapore, the Netherlands and the United States are leading the world when it comes to generating economic impact from investments in information and communications technologies (ICT), according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report 2016. On average, this group of high-achieving economies at the pinnacle of the report’s Networked …
The future of America’s greatest city is at risk by Jeff Goodell – Rolling Stone, July 5, 2016. “Almost every coastal city in the world is vulnerable to sea-level rise, but nowhere is there more at stake than in New York. In purely economic terms, the New York metropolitan area is responsible for almost 10 …
July 11, 2016 – Europeans Fear Wave of Refugees Will Mean More Terrorism, Fewer Jobs – Sharp ideological divides across EU on views about minorities, diversity and national identity by Richard Wike, Bruce Stokes and Katie Simmons “The recent surge of refugees into Europe has featured prominently in the anti-immigrant rhetoric of right-wing parties across …
How scholars, companies and workers are using Mechanical Turk, a ‘gig economy’ platform, for tasks computers can’t handle “Digital age platforms are providing researchers the ability to outsource portions of their work – not just to increasingly intelligent machines, but also to a relatively low-cost online labor force comprised of humans. These so-called “online outsourcing” …
“The NIST Ballistics Toolmark Research Database (NBTRD) is an open-access research database of bullet and cartridge case toolmark data. The development of the database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice. The database is being developed to: foster the development and validation of measurement methods, algorithms, metrics, and quantitative confidence …
