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Congress contemplates actions to stimulate economy. In the next two weeks, the Congress will be considering the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009. This package is the first crucial step in a concerted effort to create and save 3 to 4 million jobs, jumpstart our economy, and begin the process of transforming it for the 21st century with $275 billion in economic recovery tax cuts and $550 billion in thoughtful and carefully targeted priority investments with unprecedented accountability measures built in.
Many of these initiatives are technology and data centric that will also augment decision-making information resources.
The package contains targeted efforts in:
See more here -- http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/PressSummary01-15-09.pdf
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The Hawaii Decision-Making Information Guide (http://proximityone.com/hidmi/guide) provides an integrated summary of selected demographic-economic characteristics and patterns for Hawaii and sub-state geography and access to corresponding data and tools for further analysis and extension. The Guide is designed to help further empower stakeholders to better understand the existing conditions and examine how demographic-economic characteristics are changing for wide-ranging application areas and geographies. Design, data, methods, and tools reviewed apply any state or region.
Included within the Guide -- interactive Google map and data access/analysis
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Many of America's largest companies are experiencing downsizing and other forms of change due to the current economic climate. Which of these companies are changing and how? How might this affect the areas where they are located and of interest to you?
Situation & Outlook (S&O) reports on America's largest 1,000 companies by metro. A partial list of these companies in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MSA is shown in the following graphic.
Future DMINews sections will provide more information on assessing the impact of change in these companies, on individual metros, and show how a national scope company point shapefile can be used to flexibly these companies by company/industry characteristic.
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 | New 2007-08 School Districts: Mapping & Geospatial Analysis -- Phoenix Area |
New national scope 2007-08 school district boundary files are available as of December 2008 (boundary reference date as of January 1, 2008). These boundaries reflect completion of the Census Bureau TIGER/Line MTAIP geography accuracy improvement for all U.S. counties. The school district boundaries are consistent with all other geographies including streets, census blocks, tracts, landmarks, water areas, etc.
This section illustrates use of new 2007-08 school district boundary files (in shapefile structure) with applications using the CommunityViewer GIS software and Arizona school districts.
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MetroDynamics (MD) is updated with the detailed (subject matter data by maximum detailed NAICS category) 2008Q2 quarterly establishments, employment, and earnings (EEE) data based on employer reported data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics ES-202 program. See description of subject matter included in MD. MD provides quarterly time series EEE data from 2004Q1 forward, then making a 18 quarter series. Use the optional MD feature to estimate suppressed data and use continuous quarterly measurements in your analyses. Data release date: January 13, 2009.
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HLIAnalyst integrated software and database enables uses to analyze county level quarterly economic high level industry trend data. The quarterly updated database enables users to examine employer reported "ES-202" data on establishments, employment and earnings with only a 7-8 month lag from the reporting period. Easy access to county (or custom aggregate) area economic trend data. Supported with on-demand graphic analysis/charts and analytical operations such as location quotient analysis.
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The 111th U.S. Congress is in session from January 3, 2009 until January 3, 2011. The incoming freshman class in the House of Representatives has 54 members. See the new 11th Congressional District ranking table at http://proximityone.com/cd.htm. Use this interactive Web table to view Congressional members by name, district and summary demographics for each district. Rank/compare districts on selected demographics.
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| New Interstate Highways Shapefiles & Geospatial Alignment with Census Blocks |
Have you tried to develop maps or perform geospatial analyses with Census Bureau TIGER/Line roads shapefiles in the past? A near impossibility for counties that had not been completed under the MTAIP. The inability to geospatially depict Interstate highways has been limiting. The December 2008 vintage TIGER/Line shapefiles enable vastly improved opportunities.
The new Proximity national scope Interstate highway shapefile is synched with all official political and statistical boundaries and geographic areas. It enables locating a ramp, intersection, census block, place, and similar geography/geocodes for the left and right side of the highway segment for approximately 350,000 highway segments. The Interstate shapefile was developed initially using the Census Bureau MAF/TIGER TIGER/Line edge shapefiles. The MTAIP updated TIGER/Line shapefiles became available for all states/counties in December 2008. Before MTAIP completion of these files, quality of the roads data rendered of limited value.
The extended Interstate shapefile dbf contains all of the original edge shapefile dbf fields, content and structure. The shapefile dbf also contains important fields derived from the edges shapefile dbf and other datasets. These fields enable legacy software and methods to be used for routing, address-matching and other gespatial operations. Roads are further updated with editing and remain 100-percent consistent with the original edge segments/records.
Interstate (red) in the Washington, DC MSA vicinity (transparent orange fill pattern). State boundaries in blue. Places as green fill pattern.
Zoom-in to DC Beltway view; see Alexandria location by pointer
Focused further zoom-in view on two tracts (yellow label, green boundary) and census blocks (blue label, blue boundary). Point shows location of I-395, creating tract boundary.
Using Identify tool to show boundary segment of I-395 between tracts.
Similar depictions and geospatial analyses can be performed anywhere in the U.S.
Contact Proximity for more information. Mention
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Recent Ranking/Crosswalk Table additions:
Ranking Table main page: http://proximityone.com/rankingtables.htm
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Additional Information
Contact Proximity for more information about any of the topics reviewed in this section.
