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A Roundup of Recent Government Info News and New Resources
Time once again for a selection of news and new resources that we hope will be an interest to the FGI community. The following posts are from INFOdocket.com (@infofodocket) where we compile and post new items daily. The oldest item in this roundup was posted on January 26, 2012.
1. President Requests $231,953,777 for Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
2. MEDLINE/PubMed: List of Serials Indexed for Online Users, 2012 Now Available in XML
3. South Dakota: State Archives Going Digital
4. Recently Launched iOS App: United Nations News Reader from the UN News Centre
6. Montana: “New State Librarian Leads Digitization”
8. New Reference Resource: PACrimeStats.Info (Pennsylvania Crime Data)
9. EPA Releases New Interactive Tool with Information About Water Pollution Across the U.S.
10. FEMA Grant Helps Restore New Orleans’ Katrina-Damaged Archives
12. New Feature: The World Factbook Now Allows Users to Listen to the National Anthems of Most Countries
13. U.S. Congress: THOMAS Adds Direct Links to House Committee Hearings
14. New Document from NIH: Public Access Policy Implications
15. New Database: See Who’s Donating to Super PACs
16. LOCPix: New iOS App Provides Access to Digitized Photos from the Library of Congress
17. New Interactive Reference Resource: State Transportation Facts and Figures
18. U.S. Congress: Financial Contributions: MapLight Launches New Company Pages
19. Let’s Fly! FAA Launches Mobile Web App
20. New Search Tool from the IRS: Exempt Organizations Select Check
A snapshot of income disparity
A snapshot of income disparity. Opinion, by Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times (February 24, 2010).
[I]n 1992, the Clinton administration asked the Internal Revenue Service to begin tracking the incomes and tax payments of the country’s 400 richest households. During the George W. Bush years, the IRS continued to collect the data, but — you’ll be shocked to know — didn’t release it to the public.
But the data are now available:
- The 400 Individual Income Tax Returns Reporting the Highest Adjusted Gross Incomes Each Year, 1992-2007, Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division. December 15, 2009.
Rutten notes that the IRS figures show that in just one year (2006-2007) “the average income of the country’s 400 top taxpayers rose 31%.” He continues:
That’s all of a piece with trends documented by economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, whose research into global income patterns shows that between 1992 and 2007, America’s 400 richest households increased their average income by 399%, while the bottom 90% of the country’s households gained just 13%. (Those percentages, by the way, reflect inflation-adjusted dollars.)
Your tax dollars at work, literally
Here are two news items for taxpayers to chew on:
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