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“As policymakers in Washington consider health reform, the care and coverage of the nations children is certain to be part of the debate. During the campaign President-elect Barack Obama said that he would require that all children have health coverage. Moreover, Congress is expected to take up reauthorization of the popular State Childrens Health Insurance …
Kaiser Women’s Health Policy Program: Health Insurance Coverage of Women Ages 18 to 64, by State, 2006-2007 “This fact sheet provides state-by-state data on the uninsured rate, as well as rates of private insurance coverage and Medicaid coverage, among women nationally, in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.”
News release: “While progress is being made, consumer and technology companies still have more to do in confronting the business challenges posed by climate change, according to a report issued today by the Ceres investor coalition and authored by RiskMetrics Group that analyzes climate change governance practices at 63 of the world’s largest retail, pharmaceutical, …
“The Center for American Progress Action Fund, along with New Democracy Project, presents Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President [Download 10 chapters free here], to help guide the presidential transition process and steer the government in a new, more progressive direction.”
Official Google Search Blog: “Today, we’re announcing an initiative to help bring more magazine archives and current magazines online, partnering with publishers to begin digitizing millions of articles from titles as diverse as New York Magazine, Popular Mechanics, and Ebony…You can search for magazines through Google Book Search…you’ll find magazine articles alongside books results. Magazine …
Risk Steering Committee, DHS Risk Lexicon, September 2008: “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is in the process of building an Integrated Risk Management Framework to improve its capability to make risk-informed strategic decisions using systematic and structured assessments of homeland security risk. The Integrated Risk Management Framework includes processes and tools that allow DHS …
Center for Strategic and International Studies – Special Brief: Homeland Security in an Obama Administration, By David Heyman and Ethan Wais, November 28, 2008 “With all the pageantry of Presidential conventions, the intensity of the financial crisis and bailing out of Wall Street, the off-again-on-again debates about Iraq and the surge, the discussions on health …
Follow up to December 5, 2008 posting, Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment Situation, November 2008, from the Wall Street Journal blog, Real Time Economics: Fourth Quarter Layoffs: Selection of Job Cuts by Major Companies – “Layoff announcements have been a common occurrence this quarter as the financial crisis weighs on companies in every sector of …
News release: “The Ecology Center today released the 2nd annual consumer guide to toxic chemicals in toys. Researchers tested over 1,500 new, popular children’s toys for lead, arsenic, mercury and other harmful chemicals. The Ecology Center determined that one-third of the toys they tested had “high” or “medium” levels of chemicals of concern this year. …
Google’s gatekeepers, by Jeffrey Rosen, IHT: “For the past two years, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, along with other international Internet companies, have been meeting regularly with human rights and civil-liberties advocacy groups to agree on voluntary standards for resisting worldwide censorship requests. At the end of October, the Internet companies and the advocacy groups announced …
Youre Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy? by John Markoff: “Propelled by new technologies and the Internets steady incursion into every nook and cranny of life, collective intelligence offers powerful capabilities, from improving the efficiency of advertising to giving community groups new ways to organize. But even its practitioners acknowledge that, if misused, collective …
News release: “A long history of terrorism in India precedes the latest, coordinated attacks in Mumbai. The Global Terrorism Database (GTD), maintained by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) based at the University of Maryland. For example, 12,539 terrorist-related fatalities in India between 1970 and 2004 – an …
