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
The bootcamp brought more than two dozen next-generation open-source practitioners from across the United States to Washington DC, where they participated in interactive modules, group discussions, and hands-on sleuthing.
Fourteen teams from ten U.S. states have been selected as the Stage 2 awardees in the Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC), a national competition that helps communities turn emerging research into ready-to-implement solutions.
The Fix Our Forests Act provides an opportunity to speed up the planning and implementation of wildfire risk reduction projects on federal lands while expanding collaborative tools to bring more partners into this vital work.
Public health insurance programs, especially Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), are more likely to cover populations at increased risk from extreme heat, including low-income individuals, people with chronic illnesses, older adults, disabled adults, and children.