Leyburn Library of Washington and Lee University is a selective Depository for U.S. Government information.
Listed below are some of the new items available through our Web site and/or on our shelves. If you have questions or comments about this blog, please contact Dick Grefe.
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U.S. State Department.
Available online.
Submitted to Congress annually, "this report supplements the most recent Human Rights Reports by providing additional detailed information with respect to matters involving international religious freedom. It includes individual country chapters on the status of religious freedom worldwide."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
U.S. Census Bureau.
Available online.
Part of the Census of Governments series, here are "downloadable Internet tables, covering state and local government financial activities in four broad categories: revenues, expenditures, outstanding debt and assets (cash and security holdings)" for each U.S. state.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
U.S. Congressional Budget Office.
Available online.
paper was prepared at the request of the
Prepared at the request of the Senate Budget Committee, this paper "uses data from national surveys to examine the economic resources over a 15-year period for low-income households with children. Cross-sectional data are used to identify changes in the sources of income for that group over time. Longitudinal data are used to follow a group of households, classified as lowincome households in one year, to show how the economic resources of a given household
might change over a three-year period."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Available online.
This BLS contribution to the ongoing discussion of aliens in the U.S. finds that "foreign-born workers’ share of the U.S. workforce continued to grow... In 2006, foreign-born workers made up 15.3 percent of the U.S. civilian labor force age 16 and over, up from 14.8 percent in 2005."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
U.S. House of Representatives / GPOAccess
Available online. Printed copy to be added to the collection.
Profiles of the 229 women who have served in the U.S. Senate and House, divided into four "generations," as well as historical and analytical material.
A link will be maintained in several locations on the library Web site, including here.
U.S. State Department.
Available online.
"U.S. law requires the Secretary of State to provide Congress, by April 30 of each year, a full and complete report on terrorism with regard to those countries and groups meeting criteria set forth in the legislation. This annual report is entitled Country Reports on Terrorism. Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism. "
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.