Federal Government
Britishnoun
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Gen. Andrea Joy Campbell, who co-led the suit along with Bonta, said in a statement that “there is no way for institutions to reasonably deliver accurate data in the federal government’s rushed and arbitrary time frame, and it is unfair for schools to be threatened with fines, potential losses of funding, and baseless investigations should they not fulfill the administration’s request.”
From Los Angeles Times
The median price of sold homes was $405,300 at the end of 2025, down from $419,300 the year prior, according to federal government data.
From MarketWatch
These “EyeBonds”—imagined as a pilot program for a wider portfolio of “BioBonds” funding other medical research—would be backed partially by a guarantee from the federal government via a bill that Petrou and the Foundation for Fighting Blindness got introduced into the House, with bipartisan support, in 2018.
The federal government also maintains its own sensitive records.
From Salon
“The reality is that the federal government isn’t just relying on one kind of source of information; they’re coupling data obtained from the IRS, for example, with school enrollment information or public benefits databases,” Alejandra Montoya-Boyer, senior director of The Leadership Conference’s Center for Civil Rights and Technology, told Salon.
From Salon
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