EDA: $2.9 Million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance Invested to Create Center for National Pandemic Resliency in Biosciences in St. Louis, MO
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.9 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to BioSTL, St. Louis, Missouri, to create the Center for National Pandemic Resilience in Biosciences. The EDA grant, to be matched with $741,030 in local investment, is expected to create…
Census Bureau: July 1, 2020 Estimates of Population and Housing Units Released
The U.S. Census Bureau today released July 1, 2020 estimates of the total population and voting-age population for the nation and states. Additional estimates for metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas, counties, cities, towns, and Puerto Rico and its municipios, as well as estimates of housing units for the nation, states and counties will be released on a flow basis…
FDIC: New Application Programming Interface and Modernized Version of BankFind Released
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today announced the release of two bank data tools—the Application Programming Interface (API) for financial data and a modernized version of BankFind. These tools make it simpler for the public to connect with the FDIC by offering easy-to-use interfaces, interactive maps, a sleek mobile-ready experience and modern data delivery options. …
Census Bureau: New Demographic Data on Nonemployer Businesses Released
The U.S. Census Bureau today released a new annual data product that provides demographic characteristics for nonemployer businesses in the United States. The new product, known as the Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics (NES-D), replaces the nonemployer component of the Census Bureau’s Survey of Business Owners (SBO), which was conducted every five years. NES-D provides more frequent…
Census Bureau: Data from the 2017 Economic Census of Island Areas of Puerto Rico Released
Today the U.S. Census Bureau published new data for Puerto Rico as part of the 2017 Economic Census of Island Areas. This program provides comprehensive information on employer businesses in American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These data for Puerto Rico include: Data at the…
FHFA: Third Quarter 2020 Foreclosure Prevention and Refinance Report Released
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) today released its third quarter 2020 Foreclosure Prevention and Refinance Report. The report shows that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises) completed 539,451 foreclosure prevention actions in the third quarter of 2020, bringing to 5.2 million the number of troubled homeowners who have been helped during conservatorships. Of…
Census Bureau: More Resources Released on COVID-19 Interactive Data
The U.S. Census Bureau has released an updated version of the interactive data hub on its COVID-19 resource page. The resource page is designed to help federal agencies, businesses and communities make decisions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Version 2.0 of the interactive data hub includes new Census Bureau data, Community Resilience Estimates, and phase 3 results from the Small…
Census Bureau: Household Pulse Survey Phase 3 Biweekly Data Released
The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the third phase of 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…
FDIC: New 2020 Community Banking Study Released
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today released a new large-scale study on the state of the nation’s community banks. The FDIC’s 2020 Community Banking Study finds community banks played a critical role in providing access to credit in several key areas of the U.S. economy, particularly through lending to support commercial real estate, small businesses and…
OCC: Report Shows Decline in Mortgage Performance in Third Quarter 2020
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) reported that the performance of first-lien mortgages in the federal banking system declined during the third quarter of 2020. The OCC Mortgage Metrics Report, Third Quarter 2020 showed that 92.5 percent of mortgages included in the report were current and performing at the end of the quarter, compared…