The U.S. Census Bureau today announced the start of a second phase of the experimental Small Business Pulse Survey. Data collection will begin August 9, 2020. Results will be released weekly starting August 20 through Oct 15, 2020. The second phase includes questions on the core concepts from the first phase […]
The U.S. Census Bureau has targeted mid-August to resume data collection for the experimental Household Pulse Survey. The Household Pulse Survey was temporarily suspended to allow the Census Bureau to prepare for a second phase of data collection. As part of the second phase, the agency has reviewed the questionnaire to ensure that the […]
Credit card purchase volumes fell in the first quarter of 2020 as the economy entered its first recession in a decade, according to the American Bankers Association’s latest quarterly Credit Card Market Monitor. In line with the onset of the pandemic-induced economic downturn and prior industry reports, seasonally adjusted monthly purchase […]
The U.S. Census Bureau continues to evaluate its operational plans to collect and process 2020 Census data. Today, we are announcing updates to our plan that will include enumerator awards and the hiring of more employees to accelerate the completion of data collection and apportionment counts by our statutory deadline […]
The Census Bureau today released new data from the experimental Household Pulse Survey. The Household Pulse Survey is the result of an effort by the Census Bureau and other federal statistical agencies to document temporal trends in how individuals are experiencing business curtailment and closures, stay-at-home orders, school closures, changes in […]
The outlook for bank construction lending was strong prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and bankers remain optimistic despite challenges resulting from the health and economic crisis, according to a report released by the American Bankers Association today. More than 90% of bank respondents surveyed at the end […]
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Census Bureau jointly announced the following new residential sales statistics for June 2020: New Home Sales Sales of new single-family houses in June 2020 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 776,000. This is 13.8 percent (±17.8 […]
U.S. house prices fell in May, down 0.3 percent from the previous month, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) House Price Index (HPI). House prices rose 4.9 percent from May 2019 to May 2020. The previously reported 0.2 percentincrease for April 2020 was revised downward to 0.1 percent. For the nine census […]
Deadline to Submit Responses to CDFI Fund Now November 5, 2020 The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) will extend the deadline to submit comments in response to its solicitation for public feedback on a revised Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) Certification Application, Annual Certification and Data Collection Report (ACR), and new Certification […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) today announced the addition of a trends view to the Consumer Complaint Database (Database). The trends view allows users to see information about complaints over time using a robust set of filter options. For several years, the database has provided users with the ability […]
