On Wednesday, the Senate passed the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. This act is a significant development in the nation’s workforce development system utilizing evidence-based strategies for this development. One portion of the bill that…
The U.S. Census Bureau announced this week that two new members will join the Census Scientific Advisory Committee. Kenneth Simonson — the Associated General Contractors of America’s chief economist — and Jack Levis — the…
APDU has just learned that Senator David Vitter (R-LA) has filed an amendment to the FY2015 Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations bill (H.R. 4660), being considered now in the U.S. Senate, that would prohibit the…
A look at data-related legislative and public policy issues for the week of June 10, 2014.
John Thompson, Census Bureau Director discussed the American Community Survey at the 54th Annual Conference of the Council for Community and Economic Research’s (C2ER).
A look at data legislation in the news, for the week of May 22.
It’s been a busy week in data-related issues in Washington DC. Here’s a look at legislation, budgets, and reports.
Last week, Jeff Strohl and Tamara Jayasundera from the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University presented findings from their just-released report on online jobs ads data, as part of the Public Data University 301-level series special topic series.
APDU joined a group of concerned national organizations, representing the newly formed Friends of BLS, to meet with Justin Gibbons and Stephen Steigleder, staffers for the Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations Subcommittee on April 25 to express our concerns about how recent budget actions have impacted Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
Susan Aud from NCES discusses the new Career/Technical Education (CTE) Statistics system on a Public Data University APDU webinar.
Based on feedback from the recent member survey, APDU is interested in engaging individual members through committees. These committees give members a chance to have a voice in their membership network, while helping carry out APDU’s mission to serve the many needs of data users.
The Census was all over the news yesterday, as changes to health insurance coverage questions raised concerns that quality of data could be degraded, especially with regard to the Affordable Care Act. Specifically, the Current Population Survey (CPS) will see changes to the wording of certain questions.