“Making voluntary family planning available to everyone in developing countries would reduce costs for maternal and newborn health care by $11.3 billion annually, according to The State of World Population 2012, published today by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. Increased access to family planning has proven to be a sound economic investment. One third of the growth of Asian tiger economies is attributed to a demographic shift in which the number of income-generating adults became higher than those who depended on them for support. This shift, says the report, was a consequence of family planning and brought increased productivity, leading to economic development in the region. One recent study predicts that if the fertility rate fell by just one child per woman in Nigeria in the next 20 years, the countrys economy would grow by at least $30 billion. And the benefits are not just economic. The report finds that the costs of ignoring the right to family planning include poverty, exclusion, poor health and gender inequality. Failing to meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents and young people in Malawi, for example, contributed to high rates of unintended pregnancy and HIV. In the United States, the report showed that teenage motherhood reduces a girls chances of obtaining a high school diploma by up to 10 per cent.”
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Daily Archives: November 13, 2012
The Independent Foreclosure Review Deadline is December 31, 2012
“If your primary residence was involved in a foreclosure process between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2010, you may qualify for a free Independent Foreclosure Review. The Independent Foreclosure Review will determine whether individual homeowners suffered financial injury and should receive compensation or other remedy because of errors or other problems during their home… Continue Reading
EPIC – Supreme Court Limits Remedies for Credit Card Privacy Violations
EPIC: In U.S. v. Bormes, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the government could not be sued for violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act under an 1887 law that waived governmental immunity for certain claims “premised on other sources of law.” The case arose after an attorney paid a federal-court filing fee with his credit… Continue Reading
Offsetting a Carbon Taxs Costs on Low-Income Households
Offsetting a Carbon Taxs Costs on Low-Income Households: Working Paper 2012-16, Terry Dinan, Microeconomic Studies Division, Congressional Budget Office, November 13, 2012 “Imposing a tax on carbon dioxide emissions would reduce the damage from climate change but would also impose a larger burden, relative to income, on low-income households than on high-income households. This paper… Continue Reading
Government Transparency and Secrecy: An Examination of Meaning and Its Use in the Executive Branch
CRS – Government Transparency and Secrecy: An Examination of Meaning and Its Use in the Executive Branch, November 8, 2012 “From the beginnings of the American federal government, Congress has required executive branch agencies to release or otherwise make available government information and records. Some scholars and statesmen, including James Madison, thought access to information… Continue Reading
Alternatives for Managing the Nation's Complex Contaminated Groundwater Sites
“Across the United States, thousands of hazardous waste sites are contaminated with chemicals that prevent the underlying groundwater from meeting drinking water standards. These include Superfund sites and other facilities that handle and dispose of hazardous waste, active and inactive dry cleaners, and leaking underground storage tanks; many are at federal facilities such as military… Continue Reading
Pew – Mobile Health 2012 Survey
Mobile Health 2012 – by Susannah Fox, Maeve Duggan, November 8, 2012 “Fully 85% of U.S. adults own a cell phone. Of those, 53% own smartphones. One in three cell phone owners (31%) have used their phone to look for health information. In a comparable, national survey conducted two years ago, 17% of cell phone… Continue Reading
An investigation into the value of health library and information services in Australia
Questions of life and death – An investigation into the value of health library and information services in Australia. October 2012 “Health libraries across Australia, and indeed the world, are under pressure from funding cuts, and it is against this backdrop that Health Libraries Inc and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) have collaborated… Continue Reading
CRS – Social Security: Cost-of-Living Adjustments
Social Security: Cost-of-Living Adjustments, Gary Sidor, Information Research Specialist, November 8, 2012 “To compensate for the effects of inflation, Social Security recipients received cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) through the legislative process sporadically from 1950 to 1974, and automatically through a trigger mechanism in all but two years from 1975 to 2012. No adjustment was made in… Continue Reading
China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues
China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues, Shirley A. Kan, Specialist in Asian Security Affairs November 7, 2012 “Congress has long been concerned about whether U.S. policy advances the national interest in reducing the role of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction… Continue Reading
The United States as a Net Debtor Nation: Overview of the International Investment Position
CRS – The United States as a Net Debtor Nation: Overview of the International Investment Position, James K. Jackson, Specialist in International Trade and Finance, November 8, 2012 “The international investment position of the United States is an annual measure of the assets Americans own abroad and the assets foreigners own in the United States.… Continue Reading
