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The Global War Against Baby Girls, Nicholas Eberstadt “Over the past three decades the world has come to witness an ominous and entirely new form of gender discrimination: sex-selective feticide, implemented through the practice of surgical abortion with the assistance of information gained through prenatal gender determination technology. All around the world, the victims of …
Special Tabulation of Supplemental Poverty Measure Estimates – This special tabulation of estimates using the Supplemental Poverty Measure were prepared at the request of the New York Times. It consists of five tables: Estimates of the number of people with incomes/resources between 100 and 150 percent of their poverty thresholds by different poverty measures and …
Lawless, Robert M. and Cohen, Dov, Less Forgiven? Race and the Bankruptcy System (January 21, 2011). BROKE: HOW DEBT BANKRUPTS THE MIDDLE CLASS, Katherine Porter, ed., 2012. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1745138 “For a consumer considering bankruptcy, Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 are options with vastly different consequences. In Chapter 7, a consumer earns a quick …
Digitizing Federal Public Records, By David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States: “Thank you for signing a petition asking the Obama Administration to digitize all public records. The Obama Administration believes increasing access to our collections by digitizing our records is a great idea. Our most recent efforts to do this ourselves as part of …
