Water Reuse: Potential for Expanding the Nation’s Water Supply Through Reuse of Municipal Wastewater, 2012 “With recent advances in technology and design, treating municipal wastewater and reusing it for drinking water, irrigation, industry, and other applications could significantly increase the nation’s total available water resources, particularly in coastal areas facing water shortages, says a new …

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World Economic Situation and Prospects 2012: “The world economy is on the brink of another major downturn. Global economic growth started to decelerate on a broad front in mid-2011 and is estimated to have averaged 2.8 per cent over the last year. This economic slowdown is expected to continue into 2012 and 2013. The United …

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Richard P, West K, Ku L (2012) The Return on Investment of a Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Program in Massachusetts. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29665. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029665 “Smoking is a leading cause of preventable death in the United States, resulting in an estimated 450,000 annual premature deaths, or nearly one of every five deaths. It is responsible for …

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Report on Carcinogens, Twelfth Edition 2011. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Toxicology Program “The probability that a resident of the United States will develop cancer at some point in his or her lifetime is 1 in 2 for men and 1 in 3 for women (ACS 2010). Nearly everyone’s …

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“The NTI Nuclear Materials Security Index – Building a Framework for Assurance, Accountability, and Action is a first-of-its-kind public benchmarking project of nuclear materials security conditions on a country-by-country basis. The NTI Index, prepared with the Economist Intelligence Unit, was created to spark an international discussion about priorities required to strengthen security, and most importantly, …

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Unemployment Insurance and the Great Recession, Wayne Vroman, December 2011 “This issue brief examines the unprecedented funding problem of state unemployment insurance (UI) programs. The majority of UI programs (36 of 53) have borrowed, securing record loan amounts to maintain unemployment insurance benefit payments during 2009-2011. It identifies the causes of the funding problem, discusses …

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Unemployment Statistics on Older Americans, Urban Institute Program on Retirement Policy, January 2012: “The recession has increased joblessness among older Americans. These graphs and tables report unemployment rates and how they have varied by age, sex, race, and education since 2007.” Related postings on financial system

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News release: “A new public opinion survey shows that in the midst of the global economic crisis and “Arab Spring,” attitudes toward immigration remain stable in the United States and five European countries. According to the 2011 Transatlantic Trends: Immigration survey, most Americans and Europeans see immigration as a problem yet remain optimistic about immigrant …

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History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium: “Welcome to the history of medicine finding aids project. A finding aid is a tool created by archivists to give information about the contents of archival collections. Finding aids provide contextual information about collections along with detailed inventories to help researchers locate relevant materials. We currently have over 3,000 …

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