Head Start impact: Department of Health and Human Services report
2010 report by the Department of Health and Human Services on the cognitive development and physical health outcomes of Head Start students.
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Wealth gaps rise to record highs among whites, blacks and Hispanics
2011 report by the Pew Research Center compared data from the Survey of Income Program and Participation (SIPP) in 2005 and 2009.
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Youth exclusion in Syria: Social, economic and institutional dimensions
2007 study by the Dubai School of Government’s Wolfensohn Center for Development on deep jobless problems among young adults in Syria.
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Oil and gas lease utilization: Onshore and offshore
2011 report by the Department of Interior based on data from the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy.
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Political change in the digital age: The fragility and promise of online organizing
2010 paper by the Berkman Center at Harvard University on frameworks for evaluating activism in the Internet age, particularly in repressive environments.
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Estimating the impact of trade and offshoring on American workers
2011 World Bank study on the effects of globalization pressures on wages and employment opportunities for American workers between 1982 and 2002.
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Effect of wolf predation and human activity on caribou and moose in the Alberta oil sands
2011 study in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment on threats to the caribou population of Alberta’s oil sands region.
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Internet filtering and circumvention tool usage report
2010 report by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society on global usage of Web-based tools designed to circumvent Internet content filtering.
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Science, technology, engineering and mathematics: Good jobs now and for the future
2011 report by the U.S. Department of Commerce on the current state of the science, technology, engineering and math-based job industries.
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Arousal increases social transmission of information
2011 study by the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, in Psychological Science on the underlying factors that drive people to share news
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