(OH) American minimum wage workers’ salary compared to CEOs
A faculty member wanted to know how many hours American workers worked a week, American worker productivity, hours of vacation, and average worker makes compared to a CEO. The average hours worked was found in the Statistical Abstract of the U.S., worker productivity, vacation days and extra hours was found in the Dobbs Report: The Perils of Productivity and the CEO salary was found on Congressman Bernie Sander's website (retrieved 7/13/2004). According to the Congressman's website, in 1980 the average CEO pay was 97 times larger than the pay of a minimum wage worker. In 1998 the average CEO pay was 989 times larger. Today, the CEO only has to work two hours to earn as much as a minimum wage worker earns in an entire year. The spread is amazing. The faculty member was pleased with the above information. She said, thank you so very much for this information. It is exactly what I needed. You make my work so much easier! Continue reading
Library Missing Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Files
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library lost a file folder that contains works of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts on affirmative action more than 20 years ago. According to officials at the library and the National Archives and Records Administration, the file folder disappeared after it was reviewed by two lawyers from the White House and the Justice Department in July. Complete article at Washington Post. (Subscription required but go to BugMeNot for an anonymous user name and password.) We know that it's possible to remove government documents from a physical library. However it'll be easier to remove documents in a digital system without the knowledge of FDLP librarians. It would save the two lawyers' trip to the library and allow them to remove the documents anonymously. This is not rocket science. It's common sense. A centralized digital system will potentially invite more of these incidents. Continue reading
Hiroshima Documents Posted by National Security Archive
In 1945 the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, destroying the two cities and killing over 200,000 people by the end of the year. On the 60th anniversary of the bombing, the National Security Archive has published on-line collection to date of declassified U.S. government documents on the first use of the atomic bomb and the end of the war in the Pacific. The documents include "Top Secret Ultra" summaries and translations of Japanese diplomatic cable traffic intercepted under the "Magic" program etc. The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources Continue reading
Secret Documents About Indymedia Server Disappearance Unsealed
The story below has large implications for the GPO's Future Digital System. What would happen if the FBI wanted to look over the server log files of a centralized, government-controlled system of government information? The FBI wouldn't even need a subpoena. They would already have the information they needed and users would be none the wiser. >>>>>>> On Thursday, October 7, 2004, two Independent Media Center (IMC or Indymedia) Web Servers were seized from the US-owned web hosting company Rackspace operating in London (UK) by the US Justice Department acting at the request of Italian and Swiss authorities. Eectronic Frontier Foundation last week won a motion that allows EFF access to sealed court documents about the disappearance of two web servers used to host news websites for Indymedia. The unsealed documents reveal that the government never officially demanded the computer servers, but requested only the server log files from the Rackspace. Continue reading
Preserving records in cyberspace: feds can learn from state archivists
Washington state has a system that preserves electronic records while the National Archives and Records Administration struggles to create its digital archive system. Some wonder why state and federal governments are not collaborating on their efforts on digital preservation. BY Aliya Sternstein. More here Continue reading
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