New York Times, New York Finds Extreme Crisis in Youth Prisons: “A draft report by a New York state task force, Charting a New Course: A Blueprint for Transforming Juvenile Justice in New York, shines a harsh light on the problems in the state’s prisons for juvenile offenders. The problems are so acute that the state agency overseeing the prisons has asked New Yorks Family Court judges not to send youths to any of them unless they are a significant risk to public safety, recommending alternatives, like therapeutic foster care.”
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Daily Archives: December 13, 2009
Free and Fee Sites Provide Consumers With Credit Score Info
How to Learn Your Credit Score, by Andrea Coobes, WSJ “The world of credit ratings is getting more transparent, thanks in part to a number of Web sites offering free credit scores and credit-management tools. But that doesn’t mean understanding your credit ranking is any easier. It may be more complicated than ever. Those Web… Continue Reading
Google Launches Prototype Technology to Monitor Global Deforestation
Google.org blog: “…at the International Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen we demonstrated a new technology prototype that enables online, global-scale observation and measurement of changes in the earth’s forests. We hope this technology will help stop the destruction of the world’s rapidly-disappearing forests. Emissions from tropical deforestation are comparable to the emissions of all… Continue Reading
Pew Report – Between Two Worlds: How Young Latinos Come of Age in America
Pew Hispanic Center Report – Between Two Worlds: How Young Latinos Come of Age in America, December 2009 (156 pages, PDF) “Hispanics are the largest and youngest minority group in the United States. One- in-five schoolchildren is Hispanic. One-in-four newborns is Hispanic. Never before in this country’s history has a minority ethnic group made up… Continue Reading
HHS OIG Audit: FDA's Food Facility Registry
HHS OIG FDA’s Food Facility Registry, December 2009, OEI-02-08-00060: “Each year, more than 300,000 Americans are hospitalized and 5,000 die after consuming contaminated foods and beverages. In the event of an outbreak of a foodborne illness, FDA is responsible for finding the source of the contamination and helping to remove the contaminated food products from… Continue Reading
2008 Annual Survey of State Government Finances
Census news release: “State governments took in nearly $1.7 trillion in total revenues in fiscal year 2008, a 15.8 percent decrease from 2007, according to new data on state government finances released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The largest share of those revenues came from taxes ($780.7 billion), which made up 46.5 percent. The decline… Continue Reading
Prisoners in 2008 & Probation and Parole in the United States, 2008
Prisoners in 2008: “Presents data on prisoners under jurisdiction of federal or state correctional authorities on December 31, 2008, collected from the National Prisoner Statistics series. This annual report compares changes in the prison population during 2008 to changes from yearend 2000 through yearend 2007. These are the only comprehensive national-level data on prison admissions… Continue Reading
Caregiving in the U.S. 2009
National Alliance for Caregiving in Collaboration with AARP: “Caregiving is still mostly a woman’s job and many women are putting their career and financial futures on hold as they juggle part-time caregiving and full-time job requirements. This is the reality reported in Caregiving in the U.S. 2009, the most comprehensive examination to date of caregiving… Continue Reading
Investing for Success: Examining a Federal Capital Budget and a National Infrastructure Bank
Investing for Success Examining a Federal Capital Budget and a National Infrastructure Bank, Emilia Istrate and Robert Puentes, Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings “Todays fiscally constrained environment demands a new approach to infrastructure policy, allowing us to upgrade our existing infrastructure, expand choices in moving people and goods (and ideas), ease the burden on household… Continue Reading
CRS Report: Lobbying the Executive Branch: Current Practices and Options for Change
Via U.S. Dept. of State: Lobbying the Executive Branch: Current Practices and Options for Change, Jacob R. Straus, Analyst on the Congress, December 1, 2009 “This report outlines the development of registration requirements for lobbyists engaging executive branch officials since 1995. It also summarizes steps taken by the Obama Administration to limit and monitor lobbying… Continue Reading
