Guardian UK – From young Mozart to black holes, 350 years of the Royal Society go online: “Britain’s academy of the sciences marks anniversary with online archive including letters from Newton and Captain Cook.”
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Daily Archives: November 29, 2009
Report: Food Stamp Usage Across the Country
New York Times graphic – Food Stamp Recipients in Each County, June 2009, and related article, Food Stamp Use Soars, and Stigma Fades: “The number of food stamp recipients has climbed by about 10 million over the past two years, resulting in a program that now feeds 1 in 8 Americans and nearly 1 in… Continue Reading
Senate Foreign Relations Cmte Report – Tora Bora Revisited: How We Failed to Get Bin Laden and Why It Matters Today
Tora Bora Revisited: How We Failed to Get Bin Laden and Why It Matters Today, November 30, 2009: “This report by the Committee majority staff is part of our continuing examination of the conflict in Afghanistan. When we went to war less than a month after the attacks of September 11, the objective was to… Continue Reading
US GDP Continues to Decline – Longest Recession on Record
Financial Times: “The US economy continued to shrink in the second quarter, but the pace of contraction slowed as aggressive government spending started to loosen the grip of the longest recession on record.” News release: “Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United… Continue Reading
CBO: An Analysis of Health Insurance Premiums Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
An Analysis of Health Insurance Premiums Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, November 30, 2009 – Letter to the Honorable Evan Bayh “There is great interest in how proposals being considered by the Congress to change the health care and health insurance systems would affect premiums paid for health insurance in various markets.… Continue Reading
24th Trouble in Toyland Report
The 24th Annual Survey of Toy Safety, U.S. PIRG Education Fund, November 2009: “Toys should bring kids joy, but sometimes they bring injury, serious harm, or even death. This holiday season, as we have for the past 23 years, U.S. PIRG is working to reduce the number of injuries and tragedies caused by dangerous toys.… Continue Reading
OECD Economic Outlook November 2009
OECD Economic Outlook No. 86, November 2009: “The economic recovery now spreading across OECD countries is still too timid to halt the continuing rise in unemployment. The jobless rate is expected to peak in the first half of 2010 in the US, but it may not be until 2011 that unemployment begins to fall in… Continue Reading
Rethinking School Feeding: Social Safety Nets, Child Development, and the Education Sector
World Bank news release: “According to the new report – Rethinking School Feeding: Social Safety Nets, Child Development, and the Education Sector – school feeding programs in poor countries boost school attendance, help children to learn more effectively, and spur better performance in class, especially when these programs are twinned with other measures such as… Continue Reading
