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Jun 23 2020
News
Should all police officers wear body cameras?
In recent weeks, protests calling for police reform have swept the nation and the globe. These protests began with the killing of George Floyd at the hands of law enforcement officers in Minneapolis. Lawmakers have responded with numerous police reforms at the state and federal level, including competing federal proposals from the house and senate.
While data and research emerges on
The ThreadMar 17 2021
News
Southwest border crossings on pace for highest levels in 20 years, Biden admin says
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday the U.S. is expected to reach the highest number of people apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border in two decades.
“We are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years. We are expelling most single adults and families. We are not expelling unaccompanied children," Mayorkas said
NBC News DigitalAug 14 2020
News
The U.S. budget deficit is rising amid COVID-19, but public concern about it is falling
Among the collateral damage from the coronavirus pandemic has been the U.S. economy and the federal budget. The pandemic has caused massive economic disruption, and the government’s response has pushed the federal budget further out of balance than it’s been in nearly eight decades. But Americans appear to be slightly less concerned about the deficit than they have been in recent years.
Pew Research CenterJun 02 2021
Analysis
The Media’s Memory-Hole Privilege
In our digital future, individuals will be held accountable for all their sins, while the ruling institutions will correct their mistakes secretly. With COVID, it’s happened already.
In the dystopian novel 1984, our protagonist Winston Smith gets the order to rewrite an article that showed Big Brother had commended a person who was now in the Party’s disfavor: “reporting bb dayorder
National Review (News)Mar 19 2015
News
Bloomberg Business
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BloombergMay 23 2020
Analysis
A Fundamental Flub From The CDC
After two months lived under the threat of coronavirus, the key characteristic of the crisis remains uncertainty. We don’t know where the virus came from. We still don’t know for sure all the ways it attacks the body, which is a big part of why we still don’t know how best to treat it. We certainly don’t know how to cure it. And as it spreads—despite our best efforts, among asymptomatic
The DispatchAug 12 2020
Background
Sex, contraception, or abortion? Explaining class gaps in unintended childbearing
There are wide class gaps in unintended childbearing among single women in the United States, resulting from different contraceptive and abortion choices across income groups. In this paper, we use data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG 2011-2013) to estimate how sexual activity, contraceptive use, and abortion use vary across income lines. Though rates of sexual activity are
Brookings InstitutionAug 12 2020
Data
Unemployment rate is higher than officially recorded, more so for women and certain other groups
The COVID-19 outbreak has presented a unique set of measurement challenges for statistical agencies. Most recently, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the U.S. unemployment rate stood at 13% in May 2020, nonseasonally adjusted. At the same time, the bureau noted that the rate may have been as high as 16% if not for an error in the classification of the employment status of
Feb 16 2021
News
Cash for kids: Emerging plans to fight child poverty
The United States has one of the highest rates of childhood poverty in the developed world. More than 11 million American children lived in poverty in 2019, a figure that’s expected to grow once data on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic becomes available. In the past week, two plans have emerged in Washington that take widely different approaches to achieving the same goal: combating
Yahoo! The 360Dec 26 2019
News
How Close Did Russia Really Come to Hacking the 2016 Election?
On November 6, 2016, the Sunday before the presidential election that sent Donald Trump to the White House, a worker in the elections office in Durham County, North Carolina, encountered a problem.
There appeared to be an issue with a crucial bit of software that handled the county’s list of eligible voters. To prepare for Election Day, staff members needed to load the voter data from a
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