News release: “Nearly one-third of Americans age 14 or older roughly 77 million people used a public library computer or wireless network to access the Internet in the past year, according to a national report released today. In 2009, as the nation struggled through a recession, people relied on library technology to find… Continue Reading
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Amnesty International – Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Health Care Crisis in the USA
News release: “Amnesty International has called on US President Barack Obama to tackle soaring rates of maternal mortality and pregnancy-related complications that particularly affect minorities and those living in poverty. Amnesty Internationals report, Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Health Care Crisis in the USA, urges action to tackle a crisis that sees between two and three… Continue Reading
2009 Progress Report on the Economic Well-Being of Working-Age People with Disabilities
2009 Progress Report on the Economic Well-Being of Working-Age People with Disabilities September 2009 [posted February 2010], Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities at Cornell University “This progress report on the prevalence rate, employment, poverty, and household income of working-age people with disabilities (ages 21-64) uses data from the… Continue Reading
Obama Administration Details Healthy Food Financing Initiative
News release: “The Obama Administration today released details of an over $400 million Healthy Food Financing Initiative, which will bring grocery stores and other healthy food retailers to underserved urban and rural communities across America. The initiative was announced today in Philadelphia by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. The two cabinet… Continue Reading
UN Report: State of the World's Indigenous Peoples
UN Permanent Forum Origin and Development Report: State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, January 2010. “Indigenous peoples contribute extensibly to humanity’s cultural diversity, enriching it with more than two thirds of its languages and an extraordinary amount of its traditional knowledge. There are over 370 million indigenous people in some 90 countries, living in all… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Loan Performance in Nonprime Mortgage Market, Social Security: Options to Protect Benefits
Loan Performance and Negative Home Equity in the Nonprime Mortgage Market, GAO-10-146R, December 16, 2009: “This report (1) provides information on the performance of these nonprime loans as of June 30, 2009, and describes forecasts made by others of future loan performance; and (2) examines the extent of negative home equity among nonprime borrowers in… Continue Reading
Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission Report, November/December 2009
Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, Report on the Situation of Economic and Social Rights in Afghanistan – IV Qaws 1388 (November/December 2009) “This report aims to assess the status of economic and social rights in Afghanistan in the year 1387 (2008/09). In this report we measure the national and international obligations of the Government with… Continue Reading
Census: The Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 2007 and 2008
News release: “The Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 2007 and 2008 National-level tabulations from the Current Population Survey on this population group are shown by a wide range of characteristics including education, marital status, employment status, occupation and industry, earnings and poverty, and household type and tenure. Unique to this data set are… Continue Reading
A Just and Sustainable Recovery: Bread for the World Institutes 2010 Hunger Report
A Just and Sustainable Recovery: Bread for the World Institutes 2010 Hunger Report “is now available online. This years report focuses on green jobs and domestic economy, but still includes international statistics on food security, poverty, and development. The 2010 report includes new data on economic mobility, housing, health and climate change.” [Christine Matthews, Librarian… Continue Reading
Port of Spain Climate Change Consensus: The Commonwealth Climate Change Declaration
Port of Spain Climate Change Consensus: The Commonwealth Climate Change Declaration: “Climate change is the predominant global challenge. We convened a Special Session on Climate Change in Port of Spain to discuss our profound concern about the undisputed threat that climate change poses to the security, prosperity, economic and social development of our people. For… Continue Reading
Kaiser Foundation – State Variation and Health Reform: A Chartbook
State Variation and Health Reform: A Chartbook – “Health reform initiatives will have differential effects on states. In general, states with more extensive poverty, higher budget shortfalls, lower eligibility levels for public programs, higher rates of uninsured, and more primary care shortages, will be more heavily impacted. This chartbook pulls together data related to state… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Managing Major System Acquisitions, Millennium Challenge Corporation
Information Technology: Agencies Need to Improve the Implementation and Use of Earned Value Techniques to Help Manage Major System Acquisitions, GAO-10-2, October 8, 2009: “In fiscal year 2009, the federal government planned to spend about $71 billion on information technology (IT) investments. To more effectively manage such investments, in 2005 the Office of Management and… Continue Reading
