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.
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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,…
Public data making the rounds in the media
As the appropriations process gears up on Capitol Hill, government officials, advocates, and journalists are making the case for preserving public data.
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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.…
BEA to restore LAPI program
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has announced that it will restore a portion of statistical detail to its Local Area Personal Income (LAPI) program.
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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)…
Peg Young discusses county level data at BTS
Peg Young from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) discusses county-level data.
APDU calling on Congress to restore and modernize BLS budget
APDU is calling on the House and Senate to increase the total BLS budget request to $631.4 million.
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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,…
Ian Mead Discusses Cuts to BEA Data
Yesterday on the Introduction to Data Sets webinar with the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Ian Mead (Chief, Regional Product Division) gave an overview of BEA’s data products and answered questions from APDU members.
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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…
APDU Joins 100+ Orgs in Defense of ACS
Good news from the Hill: the move to re-introduce an unpopular bill in committee that would affect the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey has failed.
Late last week, word leaked that House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) would present the bill for markup on Wednesday, March 12. Organized by The Census Project, APDU joined over 100 other organizations in a letter to the committee leadership urging the Census Bureau’s authorizing committee not to bring up the Poe bill, which would make ACS response voluntary, for a vote this week.