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
As humans expand our geographic reach, encroach on untouched natural territories, and interact more with animal populations, we will encounter novel zoonotic diseases that threaten the human body. The sooner we act to address these risks, the better.
This report serves as a landscape assessment and toolbox from which local governments can negotiate an informed position when it comes to the levers available to them and includes a first-of-its kind analysis of eight executed community benefits agreements.
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.