The Insights Association joined with 82 other business and community groups to call for serious investment in modernizing the Census Bureau in Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22).
The U.S. Senate confirmed veteran survey statistician Robert Santos, President Joe Biden's choice for director of the Census Bureau, on November 4, 2021. The Insights Association, the leading trade association for the market research and data analytics industry, endorsed and supported Santos.
October brought Insights Association advocacy focused on: data privacy and new laws in California; COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employers; labor and tax legislation in California; funding for the census; and the signing into law of California A.B. 1561, our fix to the state’s 2020 law requiring prorated hourly minimum wages for California research subjects who receive incentives.
In August, the Insights Association tussled with more state and federal privacy legislation, laws and regulation; considered the implications of COVID-19-related mandates for employers; analyzed pending changes to the pharmaceutical industry’s restrictions on interactions with doctors; and opposed a potential federal tax on companies operating online. We’re also nearing the finish line in our campaign to fix the California law requiring a minimum wage for research subjects.
In July, the Insights Association lamented more new state privacy laws while issuing helpful CCPA compliance information for members; welcomed an important data security protection in Connecticut; endorsed a new nominee to run the Census Bureau; and continued to advance a fix to the 2020 California law requiring a minimum wage for research subjects.
The Insights Association urged the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to approve Robert Santos' nomination to lead the U.S. Census Bureau.
State of Play, a program on Black News Channel, recently spoke with the Insights Association to learn more about the importance of the census.
This month, the Insights Association is dealing with new state privacy and data security laws, funding for the census, how insights offices can approach reopening as the pandemic ends, and a variety of other policy concerns, while helping to advance a fix to California A.B. 2257 through the state legislature.
A recent op-ed from the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation makes the case for breaking up the Department of Commerce, calling it “a grab bag of incoherent functions, lacking key domestic industrial policy capabilities.”
The Biden Administration released a belated budget proposal for FY2022, including a 30 percent increase in funding for the Census Bureau.