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Trump Mulls Changing Official Unemployment Rate
President Trump is considering a move that would increase the official unemployment rate by a full point, and it’s an idea that many liberals would be OK with. That’s because it wouldn’t involve any workers losing their jobs. Rather, the new administration is considering switching the calculation the Labor Department uses as the official unemployment rate in place of a broader definition of what constitutes unemployment.
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5 Q?s for Ed Kearns, Chief Data Officer at NOAA
The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Ed Kearns, chief data officer at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Kearns discussed NOAA?s Big Data Project, as well as NOAA?s new National Water Model.
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What do we Know About When Data Influences Policy?
While development actors are now creating more data than ever, examples of impactful use are anecdotal and scant. Put bluntly, despite this supply-side push for more data, we are far from realizing an evidence-based utopia filled with data-driven decisions.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Data Reveals Each Colleges’ Share of Rich Kids
The data comes from a trail-blazing new study from economists Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and their colleagues. The study highlights schools that provide opportunities for socioeconomic mobility and shine a spotlight on those that don?t.
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Visualization of the Week
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Income Taxes You Would Pay in Each State
Whether a state is lower or higher for you depends on more than just the high brackets. FlowingData created a data visualization to make clear the differences between states by several variables.
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Notable Data Publications
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Federal Rulemaking and Calls for Comment
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APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections. We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):
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Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Annual Parole Survey, Annual Probation Survey (June 26, 2017)
Census Bureau
- American Community Survey Methods Panel Tests, 2017 Mail Design Test (May 20, 2017)
- Limited-Access Highway Classification Codes (May 25, 2017)
- State & Local Government Finance Collections (May 20, 2017)
National Center for Health Statistics
- Developmental Projects to Improve the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and Related Programs Generic (June 19, 2017)
National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
- Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering (June 26, 2017)
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