Pius XII Memorial Library Government Documents

Catching up to the revolution in the dissemination of data comes the announcement of DATA.gov, “a searchable data catalog that includes access to data in two ways: through the “raw” data catalog and using tools.”   Wired Blog has a interesting brief note on the introduction.

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Campaign cash– the business of the Federal Election Commission, FEC. You can get a graphic sense of how the national candidates are rasing funds to ensconce themselves for the upcoming term using this interactive website.

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No I am not making this up — headline in a USA Today article, “Pentagon envisions spaceship troopers.” Of course the DOD has been ramping up for space warfare (dominance is their term of choice) for years. However, given the current financial situation perhaps the money would be better spent tilting at windmills.

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We in docs-land are often ask how many homeless are there? The Census Bureau does not directly count these folks; they use  a category of “group quarters” to nail down a number. There are numerous studies and estimates in Census land and they did attempt to make a count in 1990 but that proved ineffective.
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Hey, it is not so bad. The 700 billion dollar bailout comes to only about $6119.73 per U.S. Household;  chump change my friends. Don’t like my calculations, try the Census Bureau web site, get some numbers and make up your own scenerio — its fun and it is free!

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Harry Truman on the campaign trail in 1948 exercising his second amendment rights!
Fifty years ago at the Democratic Convention it was Missouri’s time to shine with Harry Truman heading up the ticket — not just our junior senator sandwiched between Ted Kennedy and Michelle Obama; but the state could still be pivotal in the White [...]

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Watch the campaign’s reaction when this Census Bureau press release is released:

Income, Poverty and Health Insurance

The U.S. Census Bureau will release the 2007 report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage for the nation at a news conference on Aug. 26, 2008, at 10 a.m. (EDT). The data are derived from the Annual Social [...]

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If you want a sense of Missouri demographics, you need to bookmark the MCDC site. The fine folks at the Missouri Census Data Center put out great data on a wide array of demographic topics — the latest considers the loss or gain of population for St. Louis City.

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Federal Computer Week reports that Federal Employees will be getting a 3.9 percent raise in the coming fiscal year. Look closely at your pay stub, are you beating inflation?

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Not a pretty statistical picture:
From the Federal Government Statistics section of www.whitehouse.gov…
Life expectancy in the United States was the highest ever in 2002, but infant mortality increased from a rate of 6.8 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2001 to a rate of 7.0 per 1,000 births in 2002, the first year since [...]

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