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January 27, 2009

2009 Poverty Guidelines

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Available online.
Discussion of and recently-revised data on "two slightly different versions of the Federal poverty measure: The poverty thresholds, and The poverty guidelines."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

January 26, 2009

Volunteering in the United States, 2008

U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Available online.
BLS and the Census Bureau provide this annual count, in which "volunteers are defined
as persons who did unpaid work (except for expenses) through or for an
organization."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

January 16, 2009

Measure of America: American Human Development Report, 2008-09

American Human Development Project / Columbia University Press.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
These are the data charts (Excel) from the volume The Measure of America, which is available in printed form in Leyburn Library. The data present unique indicators of well-being, using economic, educational, and other measures.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

January 1, 2009

Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE): 2006 and 2007

U.S. Census Bureau.
Available online.
Brand-new annual updates of these tables, which "provide estimates of income and poverty for states and counties, as well as estimates of poverty and population for school districts, median household income and poverty rates of various age groups."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.