tigris v2.3.0, one of the major milestones from this summer's R Consortium grant, is now on CRAN. - The package has a modern httr2 backend now, which will help the package last into the future; - New features include `population_centers()`, shown here; - The open issue count is now at zero!

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And founded our department at Wisconsin!

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BLS tracks it too. Their website is poorly designed, but I discovered that the Claude Chrome plug-in actually did an excellent job of scraping it. It looks like the numbers roughly track each other, which is a rare win.

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FWIW, the FBI UCR program tracks policing employment numbers (www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-h...), which are available through this portal (cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webap...). But you still have to figure out the overlapping jurisdictions issue.

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Reaping [tax escrow lowering the salience of property taxes, allowing for higher rates]: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Sowing [the salience property tax skyrocketing as people pay off their mortgages]: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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