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News release: “The Department of Justice challenged the state of Arizonas recently passed immigration law, S.B. 1070, in federal court today. In a brief filed in the District of Arizona, the Department said S.B. 1070 unconstitutionally interferes with the federal governments authority to set and enforce immigration policy, explaining that the Constitution and federal law …
The White House Blog: The AP’s Look at Health Reform: “Today, the Associated Press takes a look at the first stages of the Affordable Care Act and finds that millions will benefit from the new protections in the new law. The story notes: The first stage of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul is expected …
Mexico Country Analysis Brief June 29, 2010: “In 2009, Mexico was the seventh-largest oil producer in the world, and the third-largest in the Western Hemisphere. The oil sector is a crucial component of Mexico’s economy: while its relative importance to the general Mexican economy has declined in the long term, the oil sector still …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing regulations to cut air pollution that impairs air quality and harms the health of people living downwind. The regulation will target power plant pollution that drifts across the borders of 31 eastern states and the District of Columbia. Air pollution is linked to thousands of …
The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) is the national institute for strategic policy analysis in the field of environment, nature and spatial planning: “PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency found no errors that would undermine the main conclusions in the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on possible future regional impacts of …
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this July 5, 2010 BP press release: “To date, almost 95,000 claims have been submitted and more than 47,000 payments have been made, totalling almost $147 million. The cost of the response to date amounts to approximately $3.12 billion, including the cost of the spill …
News release: “Despite the continued economic crisis, global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, have remained constant in 2009, as strong increases in CO2 emissions from fast-growing developing countries, such as China and India, have completely nullified CO2 emission reductions in the industrialised world. This according to calculations in the report No growth …
National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the United States, 2009, Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2010: “The National Compensation Survey (NCS) provides comprehensive measures of occupational earnings, compensation cost trends, the incidence of benefits, and detailed benefit provisions. This bulletin presents estimates of occupational pay for the Nation. These national estimates originate from the NCS …
Washington Post: “After showing signs of a fledgling recovery from the worst downturn in decades, the U.S. housing market appears to be heading back toward the doldrums, as the expiration of a lucrative tax credit for buyers and increased uncertainty about the economy cause home sales to plummet. The sudden weakness in residential real estate …
LaToya Egwuekwe: “In the face of the worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression, millions of Americans are hurting. The Decline: The Geography of a Recession is a vivid representation of just how much. Its an interactive map I created as a graduate student at American University, Washington, D.C. Watch the deteriorating transformation of the …
News release: “U.S. consumer bankruptcy filings totaled 770,117 nationwide during the first six months of 2010 (Jan. 1-June 30), a 14 percent increase over the 675,351 total consumer filings during the same period a year ago, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI), relying on data from the National Bankruptcy Research Center (NBKRC). The consumer …
Identity Theft Reported by Households, 2007 – Statistical Tables: “Presents data on identity theft victimization reported by households from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). These statistical tables provide 2007 data on rates and types of identity theft, as well as demographic characteristics of victimized households and their monetary losses. Tables compare rates of identity …
