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October 18, 2018 FEATURE BPC Obtains Documents Revealing Labor Dept Cut Funds for Program Evaluation The Bipartisan Policy Center obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act that reveal the Department of Labor sharply cut…
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October 11, 2018 FEATURE Census Citizenship Question Lawsuits Move Toward Supreme Court Showdown Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has temporarily blocked lower court orders for depositions by two senior Trump administration officials in the…
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October 4, 2018 FEATURE Senate Confirmation Hearing of New Census Director Nominee On Wednesday, October 3 the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will consider the nomination of Dr. Steven Dillingham to be the…
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September 27, 2018 FEATURE Executive Leadership Workshop CREC and the Coleridge Initiative invite you our special workshop: ?Executive Leadership Workshop: Using Data to Create Stronger Local Economies and More Efficient Labor Markets?. Cut through the…
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September 20, 2018 FEATURES Extension of Period Comment on ERS Relocation The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is extending the period for interested parties to submit an expression of interest for a proposed new headquarters…
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September 13, 2018 FEATURES Webinar: USDA Research Relocation and Reorganization: Perspectives from Former USDA Chief Scientists and Administrators On August 9, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue surprised Congress and USDA stakeholders with…
John Abowd of the Census Bureau Calls for Response to Federal Register Notice
It is imperative that sophisticated data users respond to this FRN. As John Abowd’s blog makes clear, we can control the fitness-for-use of the 2020 Census data products, but the Census Bureau cannot give every use case the same margin-of-error (just as we currently cannot give every statistic from the ACS the same MOE).
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September 6, 2018 FEATURES Last Chance to Register: Reorganizing Federal Data Agencies Webinar This June the White House released a proposal that would shift the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the Department of Labor to…
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August 30, 2018 FEATURES How the Federal Government?s Bad Data Practices Made the Immigrant Family Separation Crisis Worse To avoid exacerbating future crises, the federal government needs to make significant progress towards addressing its problems…
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August 23, 2018 FEATURES More States Appoint ?Chief Privacy Officers? to Protect People?s Data In this age of hackers and cyber-criminals, every state has a top security official focused on preventing breaches and protecting the…
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August 16, 2018 FEATURES Important Changes at the Economic Research Service The Secretary of Agriculture announced on Thursday, August 9 that the Economic Research Service will undergo several significant changes in the coming year. APDU will…
Public Data Leaders Gather to Look Ahead: Closing Thoughts on our 2018 APDU Conference
This year, in mid-July, public data collectors and users across the country gathered in Arlington, Virginia to discuss the future of public data and its promise to inform public and private sector decisions. APDU Vice President and Conference Chair Kevin McAvey gives his thoughts in this blog post.