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As Deportations Rise to Record Levels Most Latinos Oppose Obamas Policy, December 28, 2011 “By a ratio of more than two-to-one (59% versus 27%), Latinos disapprove of the way the Obama administration is handling deportations of unauthorized immigrants, according to a new national survey of Latino adults by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of …
Print libraries, book collections, book shops – targets of fiscal austerity, the growing impact and power of e-books, social media, pay walls, e-commerce structures, and changing values about print media itself – are increasing disappearing. Regardless of the application of specific determining factors, the results are increased thresholds to open access to “knowledge.” There is …
Higher Education and Disability – Improved Federal Enforcement Needed to Better Protect Students’ Rights to Testing Accommodations, GAO-12-40, November 29, 2011. “Federal enforcement of laws and regulations governing testing accommodations is largely complaint-driven and involves multiple agencies. While Justice has overall responsibility for enforcing compliance under the ADA, Education and HHS have enforcement responsibilities under …
“Taxpayers can get the most out of various recovery tax benefits and get a jump on preparing their 2011 federal income tax returns by consulting a newly revised comprehensive tax guide now available on IRS.gov. Publication 17, Tax Guide 2011 for Individuals, features details on taking advantage of a wide range of tax-saving opportunities, such …
“America’s Youngest Outcasts 2010 documents the numbers of homeless children in every state, their well-being, their risk for child homelessness, and state level planning and policy activities. Using findings from numerous sources that include well-established national data sets as well as our own research, we rank the states in four domains and then develop a …
Survey of Current Business, December 2011, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Volume 91 Number 12 GDP and the Economy: Second Estimates for the Third Quarter of 2011: Real GDP rose 2.0 percent after rising 1.3 percent in the second quarter. Consumer spending and nonresidential investment picked up. State and local government spending decreased less. Corporate profits …
Women in the Labor Force: A Databook, 2011 Edition The past several decades have been marked by notable changes in womens labor force activities. Womens labor force participation is significantly higher today than it was in the 1970s, particularly among women with children under 18 years of age. A larger share of women work full …
