New from the U.S. Government

U.S. Congressional Research Service.
Available online.
"The main body of this report is a series of tables and an appendix that summarize and cite bill language that was intended to end or restrict U.S. military operations in Indochina between 1970 and 1973, in Somalia in 1993, and in Kosovo in 1999. The report covers enacted provisions or those where there were roll call votes but the provision was not ultimately enacted. The first table outlines proposals that restrict funding and the second table describes other types of restrictions."
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Available online.
Latest edition of this annual statistical report includes the news that about 61.2 million people volunteered through or for an organization at least once between September 2005 and September 2006.
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The official U.S. Government Web portal -- the gateway to tens of millions of Web pages from hundreds of government agencies -- has a new name: USA.gov.

Interestingly, one of the reasons they changed the name is that they found that searchers had tried (vainly) the search term "usa.gov" over 600,000 times in one year. (Using that logic, maybe they should have changed the title to "paris hilton.")

Links are maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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U.S. Census Bureau.
Available online.   Printed copy ordered.
Often considered the single most useful general-purpose compilation of statistical data for research on the U.S. and other areas of the world.
Links are maintained in several locations on the library Web site, including here.

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U.S. General Accounability Office.
Available online.   Printed copy ordered.
"A series of issue papers for Congressional consideration in developing its oversight agenda for the 110th Congress and analyzing the President's revised strategy for Iraq."
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U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Available online.
Recently-updated collection of data on acts of violence between intimate partners, defined as "a current or former spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend or same-sex partner."
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U.S. Congressional Research Service.
Available online.
It is generally assumed that the new Congress will actively consider legislation to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which was revised by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. This CRS report provides an overview of the issues to be debated.
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U.S. Census Bureau.
Available online.
The Small Area and Income Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program has released 2004 estimates of poverty in U.S. states, counties, and school districts. See the options for "State & county data" and "School district data" under "Create Tables."
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U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Available online.
"A panel of experts briefed members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the putative benefits of racial and ethnic diversity in elementary and secondary education. Four experts presented written statements to the Commissioners that assessed the social science literature on this issue. They also addressed whether or not racial and ethnic diversity in public schools should be mandated by the state and whether the net benefits of state-mandated diversity are different from the benefits that this diversity may yield when achieved through purely voluntary behavior. The experts also presented a number of studies to the Commission assessing the putative educational and social benefits of racial and ethnic diversity in elementary and secondary education." Dissenting viewpoints are also presented.
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U.S. Public Health Service / Guttmacher Institute.
Available online.   Printed copy to be added to the collection.
This study "uses data from several rounds of the Federal National Survey of Family Growth to examine sexual behavior before marriage, and how it has changed over time. The vast majority of Americans have sex before marriage, including those who abstained from sex during their teenage years. Further, contrary to the public perception that premarital sex is much more common now than in the past, the study shows that even among women who were born in the 1940s, nearly nine in 10 had sex before marriage."

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U.S. Department of Defense.
Available online.
The report, the sixth in a quarterly series, "includes specific performance indicators and measures of progress toward political, economic, and security stability in Iraq..."
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