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Education, Politics & Government

Head Start impact: Department of Health and Human Services report

by Margaret Weigel | August 11, 2011

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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Economics, Race & Gender

Wealth gaps rise to record highs among whites, blacks and Hispanics

by Margaret Weigel | August 11, 2011

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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Economics, Politics & Government

Youth exclusion in Syria: Social, economic and institutional dimensions

by Rozanne Larsen | August 11, 2011

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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Environment, Politics & Government

Oil and gas lease utilization: Onshore and offshore

by Margaret Weigel | August 11, 2011

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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Economics, Media, Politics & Government

Political change in the digital age: The fragility and promise of online organizing

by John Wihbey | August 10, 2011

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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Economics

Estimating the impact of trade and offshoring on American workers

by John Wihbey | August 10, 2011

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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Environment

Effect of wolf predation and human activity on caribou and moose in the Alberta oil sands

by Margaret Weigel | August 9, 2011

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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Economics, Media, Politics & Government

Internet filtering and circumvention tool usage report

by Christopher Olver | August 9, 2011

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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Economics, Education

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics: Good jobs now and for the future

by Christopher Olver | August 8, 2011

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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Media

Arousal increases social transmission of information

by John Wihbey | August 5, 2011

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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