Features Thompson discusses continuing struggles of ACS Census Bureau Director John Thompson delivered the morning keynote on the final day of last week?s C2ER Annual Conference and discussed the implications of changing the American Community…
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…