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NBER – Labor Market Impacts of ICE Activity in Trump 2.0. Elizabeth Cox & Chloe N. East. Working Paper 35129. DOI 10.3386/w35129. Issue Date, April 2026. We provide the first causal, national empirical analysis of the labor market impacts of heightened immigration enforcement during the second Trump administration. Enforcement increased everywhere, but, we take advantage of the …
NiemanLab: “If you’re trying to get a handle on evidence from academic research about the state of local news, it’s hard to know where to start. The research is scattered — across disciplines from political science to economics to computer science; across universities; across paywalled journals. To some extent, it’s part of the academic job …
NBC News: “Over the past two years, medical providers across America have quietly embraced a new AI tool called OpenEvidence to help them make clinical decisions, brush up on medical knowledge and even prepare for their licensing exams. The service, a sort of chatbot for doctors, was used by about 65% of U.S. doctors across …
Tristan Davey’s Punch Card Archive: “Punched cards were once a ubiquitous part of accounting, data collection and early computing. At their peak of use, in the 1950s and 60s, hundreds of companies around the world printed millions of punch cards every month. Yet within a few years of their obsolescence they all but disappeared from …
“A new report from Wakely Consulting Group, an HMA Company, models changes to the 2026 ACA market enrollment due to the loss of federal subsidies. Findings suggest a larger drop in ACA marketplace enrollment – lower than some feared, but higher than the CBO analysis. Download Full Report – “Based on unique data collection from …
“Browse millions of annual returns filed by tax-exempt organizations with ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer. See details like executive compensation, revenue, expenses and more. Search for an organization or a person, or search the full text of filings…Nonprofit Explorer includes summary data for nonprofit tax returns and full Form 990 documents, in both PDF and digital formats. …
Addy Osmani: “Right now, it’s too easy to let AI write the code while you skip the learning. The bug gets fixed. Your mental model doesn’t move. We are silently trading future capability for present-day speed, and the tools won’t force us to do otherwise. That part has to come from you. There’s a default …
Per Thirty Six: “How a giant nuclear reactor in the sky and some silicon makes electricity, and why that’s the easy part. How The Heck?, a series of interactive explanations of everyday technology designed primarily for curious, non-technical readers. Every hour, the Earth receives enough sunlight to power all of human civilization for a year. …
Politico: “The Health and Human Services Department is moving hundreds of senior career staff to a new civil service classification that will make it easier to fire them. President Donald Trump tinkered with the idea late in his first term and the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, recommended the reclassification of career staff with …
404 Media: “The FBI is seeking up to $36 million for nationwide access to automated license plate reader (ALPRs) data, which could let it query vehicle movements across the U.S. and its territories through a commercial database. 404 Media reports: “The FBI has a crucial need for accessible LPRs to provide a diverse and reliable …
“The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has launched the WIPO Lex Trade Secrets Case Law Collection, a new online resource designed to improve access to judicial decisions relating to trade secret protection across jurisdictions. In an increasingly interconnected and innovation-driven global economy, effective intellectual property (IP) protection plays a vital role in promoting economic growth, …
The New York Times: “The Trump administration announced on Monday the creation of a $1.8 billion fund to compensate those who claim they were targeted by the Biden Justice Department and Democrats, forging a pipeline to funnel taxpayer money to President Trump’s allies. The highly unusual “anti-weaponization” fund — denounced by critics as a political …