Ebola Outbreak: Select Legal Issues, and More from CRS
New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has withheld from online public distribution include the following.
The Ebola Outbreak: Select Legal Issues, CRS Legal Sidebar, October 6, 2014
Ebola: Basics About the Disease, October 3, 2014
As Midterm Election Approaches, State Election Laws Challenged, CRS Legal Sidebar, October 7, 2014
Child Welfare: Profiles of Current and Former Older Foster Youth Based on the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD), October 6, 2014
Agriculture in the WTO Bali Ministerial Agreement, October 6, 2014
Ozone Air Quality Standards: EPA’s 2015 Revision, October 3, 2014
Beverage Industry Pledges to Reduce Americans’ Drink Calories, CRS Insights, October 6, 2014
Palestinian Authority: U.S. Payments to Creditors as Alternative to Direct Budgetary Assistance?, CRS Insights, October 6, 2014
Investing in interventions behind the walls is not just a matter of improving conditions for incarcerated individuals—it is a public safety and economic imperative. By reducing recidivism through education and family contact, we can improve reentry outcomes and save billions in taxpayer dollars.
The U.S. government should establish a public-private National Exposome Project (NEP) to generate benchmark human exposure levels for the ~80,000 chemicals to which Americans are regularly exposed.
The federal government spends billions every year on wildfire suppression and recovery. Despite this, the size and intensity of fires continues to grow, increasing costs to human health, property, and the economy as a whole.
To respond and maintain U.S. global leadership, USAID should transition to heavily favor a Fixed-Price model to enhance the United States’ ability to compete globally and deliver impact at scale.