News release: “Throughout the developing world, infrastructure is improving living conditions and reducing poverty. But these life-changing investments are increasingly threatened as budgets shrink in the global financial crisis. The World Bank estimates all developing countries could face an infrastructure financing gap as high as $270 billion a year. Another $110 billion of privately financed… Continue Reading
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Community Groups to Receive $1 Billion Boost From Recovery Act
News release: “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced plans to make $1 billion available for the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) program. Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the new resources will be allocated to states across the country. States will distribute the new funding to community groups… Continue Reading
Key Health and Health Care Indicators by Race/Ethnicity and State
Kaiser Family Foundation: “This updated fact sheet shows variations across states and racial and ethnic groups for six key health and health care indicators. It provides a quick glance at disparities in rates of infant mortality and diabetes-related mortality and AIDS cases in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as similar… Continue Reading
Responding to a Historic Economic Crisis: The Obama Program
On March 13, 2009 the Brookings Institution hosted Lawrence Summers, Director of the White House National Economic Council, for a discussion of the Obama administrations economic program and the prospects for the American economy. “Transcript Larry Summers: Our single most important priority is bringing about economic recovery and ensuring that the next economic expansion, unlike… Continue Reading
Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2008
“The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is the independent and quasi-judicial control organ monitoring the implementation of the United Nations drug control conventions.” Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2008: “The historical development of international drug control is viewed through the lens of an increasingly globalized world, over a century that has seen… Continue Reading
World Bank: Crisis Reveals Growing Finance Gaps for Developing Countries
News release: “Developing countries face a financing shortfall of $270-700 billion this year, as private sector creditors shun emerging markets, and only one quarter of the most vulnerable countries have the resources to prevent a rise in poverty, the World Bank said. In a paper for next Saturdays meeting of the Group of 20 finance… Continue Reading
Social Security Administration – Income of the Population 55 or Older, 2006
Income of the Population 55 or Older, 2006 (released February 2009) “This report provides a broad income picture of a cross section of the population aged 55 or older, with special emphasis on income of the population aged 65 or older. The tabulations focus on the major sources and amounts of income in 2006, both… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: VA Vocational Rehab and Employment, Developing Countires and Debt Relief
VA Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment: Better Incentives, Workforce Planning, and Performance Reporting Could Improve Program, GAO-09-34, January 26, 2009 Developing Countries: The United States Has Not Fully Funded Its Share of Debt Relief, and the Impact of Debt Relief on Countries’ Poverty-Reducing Spending Is Unknown, GAO-09-162, January 26, 2009 Update of State and Local Government… Continue Reading
Examining the Health Consequences of the 2008-09 Recession
Examining the Health Consequences of the 200809 Recession – The Rapid Health Policy Response Project of the School of Public Health and Health Services at The George Washington University, January 2009. “Unemployment jumped to 7.2 percent in December, with 1.9 million jobs lost in the last four months of 2008. Given the established links between… Continue Reading
U.S. Conference of Mayors Release 2008 Hunger and Homelessness Survey Results
News release: “Hunger and Homelessness are both on the rise according to a U.S. Conference of Mayors report on the status of Hunger and Homelessness in America. For more than 22 years, the Conference of Mayors has documented the magnitude of the issues of hunger and homelessness in our nations cities..this report provides an analysis… Continue Reading
Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation
“For the past two decades the United States has been transforming distressed public housing communities, with three ambitious goals: replace distressed developments with healthy mixed-income communities; help residents relocate to affordable housing, often in the private market; and empower former public housing families toward economic self-sufficiency. The transformation has focused on deconcentrating poverty, but not… Continue Reading
UN: Number of hungry people rises to 963 million
News release: “Another 40 million people have been pushed into hunger this year primarily due to higher food prices, according to preliminary estimates published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) today. This brings the overall number of undernourished people in the world to 963 million, compared to 923 million in 2007… Continue Reading
