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Fiscal Policy Institute: “Despite several years of moderate economic growth, New York did not gain any ground in key areas of poverty and family incomes. New Yorkers were just as likely to be poor in 2007 as they were when the last recession in 2001, according to Census Bureau data released today. Also, the income …
Executive Excess 2008 – How Average Taxpayers Subsidize Runaway Pay – 15th Annual CEO Compensation Survey, August 25, 2008 “CEOs in the United States, despite our current hard economic times, continue to pocket outlandishly large pay packages. S&P 500 CEOs last year averaged $10.5 million, 344 times the pay of typical American workers. Compensation levels …
Google 2008 U.S. Election Coverage: See the latest news, videos, blog posts, and pictures from the conventions.
Pew Research Center – Men or Women: Who’s the Better Leader? A Paradox in Public Attitudes, August 25, 2008 “Americans believe women have the right stuff to be political leaders. When it comes to honesty, intelligence and a handful of other character traits they value highly in leaders, the public rates women superior to men, …
The Kindle for Professional Researchers: DC based journalist Cheryl Miller offers seven good reasons to buy this gadget seemingly tailor-made for dedicated readers, but she also provides caveats worth your attention.
Urban Institute: “U.S. public policy has increasingly been conceived, debated, and evaluated through the lenses of politics and ideology. The fundamental questionWill the policy work?too often gets short shrift or even ignored. A remedy is evidence-based policya rigourous approach that draws on careful data collection, experimentation, and both quantitative and qualitative analysis to determine what …
“Gannett News Service compiled 2002 data from the National Center for Education Statistics on more than 9,000 public library systems nationwide. To make a five-year comparison, GNS also obtained 2006 data from each state and the District of Columbia that were not available from NCES. The federal government requires states to report library information in …
“Poynter Online’s Links to the News column compiles Web resources on current and previous news topics. This page, Republican & Democratic Convention History (1856-2008) [author – David Shedden], links to resources about the history of the Republican and Democratic national political conventions.” [via Kitty Bennett]
News release: “The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Social Software in Libraries, SPEC Kit 304, which provides an overview of ARL libraries implementation of software that people use to connect with one another online…In the last few years, the use of social software has grown enormously. While a growing number of libraries have …
New Scientist: “A new study suggests that rice bran, the shavings left over after brown rice is polished to produce white rice grains, contains “inappropriate” levels of arsenic. Andrew Meharg at the University of Aberdeen, UK, and colleagues found that the levels of arsenic in rice bran products available on the internet and used in …
News release: “AARP announced today that it has added four new health tools to its Web site, to help consumers get trusted, reliable online health information. These tools will enable people to do everything from choose an excellent doctor or hospital, to better understand and evaluate their own health symptoms, conditions and medicines.” The tools, …
“The National Cancer Institute presents this 19th monograph in the Tobacco Control Monograph Series, The Role of the Media in Promoting and Reducing Tobacco Use. Monograph 19 provides a critical, scientific review and synthesis of the current evidence regarding the power of the media, both to encourage and to discourage tobacco use. It is the …
