Searching for and comparing population and unemployment data
Google search has added a new “wow” feature: Adding search power to public data. It’s an embryonic example of where Google is going, to make it easier to search for and compare select types of public data. In this current…
Report on foreclosure and renters posted
Hidden Impact: California Renters in the Foreclosure Crisis, released by renters’ advocacy organization Tenants Together on March 31 is now posted on Legal Services of Northern California’s housing webpage. The report estimates, conservatively, that 1 in 3 residential units in…
Primer on Social Security Disability Insurance
Social Security Disability Insurance: A Primer is a newly published, 24-page primer by the AARP Public Policy Institute (April 2009), with an informative overview of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, including who is covered, what benefits they receive,…
Taxes and tea parties
California Budget Bites has a timely and topical post today, a reality tonic, if you will, entitled Taxes Are What We Pay for a Civilized Society, by Jean Ross of the non-partisan California Budget Project. (The title of the post…
Latest Pew report on undocumented immigrants
The Pew Hispanic Center has issued a new report entitled A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States, which details the demographics of an immigrant population that is “more geographically dispersed than in the past,” and includes population and…
Beyond LexisNexis & Westlaw
UCLA has published a new online legal research guide, somewhat cumbersomely called Beyond LexisNexis & Westlaw. (BLAW? Blah? Let’s hope not.) The site includes a section on California law. (via Technola)
