Fed Transcripts: Financial Crisis of 2008
Today the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System released transcripts of eight scheduled meetings and six emergency sessions of its Federal Open Market Committee during the 2008 financial crisis. (The Fed delays release of such transcripts for five years.) FOMC: Transcripts and Other Historical Materials, 2008, Federal Open Market Committee. A Chronicle […]
GISIG: Cabinet agencies release full inventory lists of their public data
Happy Open Data Day indeed! Sunlight Foundation Blog, via GISIG Just in time for Open Data Day, your Uncle Sam — aided and abetted by developers here at Sunlight — is giving you a present. It has taken weeks, but it appears that all Cabinet agencies have released complete machine-readable lists of their public data holdings, in […]
How Government Data Is Fueling a New Economy
NextGov, the online technology newsletter from the same media company that publishes The Atlantic magazine and National Journal, is launching a new project to profile companies and nonprofits that are building their businesses with government data. The first two companies are Panjiva, which pays to get U.S. customs data overnighted on CD-ROMs because the data […]
Beta version of redesigned census.gov
The U.S. Census Bureau today released a beta version of its new census.gov website. With a new look and topic-based navigation, the redesigned site is intended to provide easier access to statistics on America’s people, places and economy. Census Bureau Provides Preview of Redesigned Census.gov [press release] beta.census.gov
GISIG: POTUS Gov Doc: Executive Order — Minimum Wage for Contractors
via gov-info.tumblr.com Executive Order — Minimum Wage for Contractors By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act, 40 U.S.C. 101 et seq., and in order to promote economy and efficiency in procurement by contracting with […]