Features     Agenda, hotel, vendor details released for APDU 2014 The 2014 APDU Annual Conference takes place in Arlington VA, September 16-17. A draft agenda of the two-meeting is now online, along with hotel… 

Features     APDU website gets a new face This week, a new, redesigned APDU.org launched. The new site features a sleeker, more modern layout, a mobile-friendly structure, and some new features. One such feature… 

Features   BEA releases new personal income statistics Today, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released comprehensive statistics on regional differences in incomes for 50 states and 381 metro areas. For the first time, Americans looking… 

Features     Announcing APDU member committees Based on feedback from the annual membership survey, APDU is rolling out a few committees for members to serve on as advisors to the Board and staff. If… 

Features     This week in data advocacy A number of bills and advocacy efforts related to public and open data have been in the news in the past week. Three years in the making,… 

Features   Public data making rounds in the media Government officials, advocates, and journalists are making the case for preserving public data. Read pieces from Forbes, The Hill, the Washington Post, and others on the APDU blog.… 

Features         Budget news for BEA and BLS; Commerce strategic plan The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has announced that it will restore a portion of statistical detail to its Local Area Personal Income (LAPI)… 

Features     APDU calling on Congress to restore, modernize BLS budget APDU has learned that the Senate and House are developing appropriations proposals that must ready in the next few weeks. To that end,… 

Features     APDU Joins 100+ Organizations in Defense of ACS Good news from the Hill: the move to re-introduce an unpopular bill that would affect the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey has failed. Earlier… 

Feature President Obama Announces his 2015 Budget On Tuesday, the President released his 2015 budget, which includes funds allocated to the federal statistical agencies. Earlier in the week, APDU joined a number of other organizations… 

Feature     2014 Budget Calls for Cuts to Bureau of Labor Statistics On Friday, January 17, 2014, President Obama signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 providing $592.2 million in funding to the… 

Feature     White House Issues Memo on Administrative Data To encourage the greater use of administrative data for statistical purposes, this Memorandum provides agencies with guidance for addressing the legal, policy, and operational issues…