Ebola-Stricken Americans Returning from Abroad, and More from CRS
New products from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has withheld from online public distribution include the following.
Safe at Home? Letting Ebola-Stricken Americans Return, CRS Insights, August 5, 2014:
2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review: Evolution of Strategic Review, CRS Insights, August 6, 2014
Reducing the Budget Deficit: Overview of Policy Issues, August 7, 2014
Juvenile Victims of Domestic Sex Trafficking: Juvenile Justice Issues, August 5, 2014
U.S.-EU Cooperation on Ukraine and Russia, CRS Insights, August 7, 2014
When a hurricane hits, it’s all hands on deck – that goes for federal data, too. Pulling back from our investments in timely, accurate, and accessible public data will only make us less prepared and put us all at greater risk.
This is bigger than a singular elimination of race and ethnicity questions. It could accelerate the second wave of widespread reductions to demographic data, leaving public health officials with even less information to deliver better health outcomes for all Americans.
Soft law was never meant to be a permanent solution. Treating it as one, and letting the sandcastle stand in for the skyscraper indefinitely, is how we end up with a decade of voluntary commitments and no enforceable accountability to show for it.
FAS has partnered with ICLEI USA to launch the CRI Local Advisory Council.