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Center for Immigration Studies – Homeward Bound: Recent Immigration Enforcement and the Decline in the Illegal Alien Population, by Steven A. Camarota, Karen Jensenius, July 2008 “Monthly data collected by the Census Bureau through May 2008 shows a significant decline in the number of less-educated, young Hispanic immigrants in the country. The evidence indicates that …
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): “NRDC’s annual survey of water quality and public notification at U.S. beaches finds that pollution caused the number of beach closings and advisories to hit their second-highest level in the 18-year history of the report. The number of 2007 closing and advisory days at ocean, bay, and Great Lakes beaches …
Reference from Coast to Coast: Summer Musings – Jan Bissett and Margi Heinen provide a timely and valuable refresher on a range of well-sourced, reliable, topical websites, guides, print and program materials useful for summer associate legal research training.
News release: “The national security system created by the U.S. government in 1947 that served the nation throughout the Cold War is outdated and needs a massive restructuring to better protect the American people from terrorism, rogue states and other 21st century dangers, according to a study issued today by the Project on National Security …
New York Times: Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?: “Few who believe in the potential of the Web deny the value of books. But they argue that it is unrealistic to expect all children to read To Kill a Mockingbird or Pride and Prejudice for fun. And those who prefer staring at a television …
News release: “…a new report by U.S.-based consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch, Whats Behind the Global Food Crisis? How Trade Policy Undermined Africa’s Food Self-Sufficiency, found that the steady increase in food cultivation in Africa between 1980s and early 1990s slowed after the WTO went into effect in 1995. Non-food cash crop cultivation …
News release: “People with early Alzheimers disease who had better fitness ratings had less atrophy in key brain areas associated with memory, according to research reported [July 27, 2008] at the 2008 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimers Disease (ICAD 2008) in Chicago…”These studies reinforce the need for increased awareness and education about the importance …
OIG-08-77 – Information Technology Management Letter for the FY 2007 DHS Financial Statement Audit (Redacted) (PDF, 162 pages) New 07/25/2008 OIG-08-48 – Challenges Remain In Executing the Department of Homeland Securitys Information Technology Program For Its Intelligence Systems (PDF, 4 pages) New 07/25/2008
Evidence on the Costs and Benefits of Health Information Technology July 24, 2008 – Testimony before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives. “This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis focuses on evidence about the benefits and costs of health IT and identifies and analyzes barriers to its adoption. Research …
“Baby boomers looking for jobs in growth fields that welcome older workers will want to dust off their diplomas rather than their treadmills, according to a new report from the Urban Institute. Most of the fastest-growing occupations that already employ above-average shares of workers age 55 and older rely on an educated workforce, such as …
Official Google Blog: “A few months ago we announced that we were testing a new product called Knol. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, we’re making Knol available to everyone. The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth knowing is on the …
What’s Driving Food Prices?, July 2008: “Understanding the complex and multiple factors influencing food prices today is important as future policy options are debated, according to a new study released today by Farm Foundation…Written by Purdue University economists Wallace Tyner, Christopher Hurt and Philip Abbott, the study identifies three broad sets of forces driving food …
