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No Secrets, by Raffi Khatchadourian: “[Julian Paul] Assange is an international trafficker, of sorts. He and his colleagues collect documents and imagery that governments and other institutions regard as confidential and publish them on a Web site called WikiLeaks.org. Since it went online, three and a half years ago, the site has published an extensive …
Financial Reform or Financial Dementia? Remarks by Richard W. Fisher at the SW Graduate School of Banking 53rd Annual Keynote Address and Banquet Dallas, Texas, June 3, 2010 “My message to you tonight is to remember where we have been. We have collectively been to hell and back. Lets not go there again. Lets remember …
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this Website by Andy Lintner, Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster using NOAA data [via NewsLib and Tom Johnson]. This mashup allows users to enter a geographical location in the United States and the dimensions of the oil spill are then relocated to show the impact …
Subsidized Jobs: Helping Americans Get Back To Work – “Because the Recovery Act is a temporary stimulus designed to boost job creation through a period of great labor market distress, programs in the Act sunset according to a preset schedule. However, if a program is still needed after its assigned shutoff dateSeptember 30, 2010 in …
News release: “Total nonfarm payroll employment grew by 431,000 in May, reflecting the hiring of 411,000 temporary employees to work on Census 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Private-sector employment changed little (+41,000). Manufacturing, temporary help services, and mining added jobs, while construction employment declined. The unemployment rate edged down to 9.7 …
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this news release, via WSJ.com: “New supercomputer studies suggest it is “very likely” ocean currents will carry oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico around the tip of Florida and thousands of miles up the U.S. East Coast this summer, researchers …
News release: “The William Clinton Presidential Library will open records relating to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagans tenure at the White House Domestic Policy Council and the White House Counsels Office. The release of papers from the approximately 160,000 pages of material will be made available on the Clinton Library web site in batches …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a final new health standard for sulfur dioxide (SO2). This one-hour health standard will protect millions of Americans from short-term exposure to SO2, which is primarily emitted from power plants and other industrial facilities. Exposure to SO2 can aggravate asthma and cause other respiratory difficulties. …
News release: “Targeted killings pose a rapidly growing challenge to the international rule of law. They are increasingly used in circumstances which violate the relevant rules of international law. The international community needs to be more forceful in demanding accountability, said Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions. Alstons report to the Human …
“The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) gathers information on family life, marriage and divorce, pregnancy, infertility, use of contraception, and men’s and women’s health. The survey results are used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and others to plan health services and health education programs, and to do statistical studies of …
Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Summary, April 2010: “Unemployment rates were higher in April than a year earlier in 291 of the 372 metropolitan areas, lower in 73 areas, and unchanged in 8 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Fourteen areas recorded jobless rates of at least 15.0 percent, while 8 areas …
Google Public Policy Blog: “When we launched Google Patent Search in 2006, we wanted to make it easier for people to understand the world of inventions, whether they were browsing for curious patents or researching serious engineering. Recently, weve also worked on a number of public data search features, as well as experimental features like …
