Since the first Monday of October is on the third, the Supreme Court will be in session starting that day. Here is a listing of the cases before the Court. Clicking on the title of each one will bring up the facts of the case as well as the Constitutional question being discussed.
Additional information/analysis can be perused at SCOTUSblog and Ballotpedia.
This table from the American Community Survey provides detailed figures across multiple ancestry groups.
According to the 2021 American Community Survey, everywhere; a more specific account of Hispanic or Latino groups can be found with this Census table.
These figures come from the 2021 American Community Survey that is taken every year.
These come courtesy of The Guardian.
The Poetry Foundation sponsors U.S. Latinx Voices in Poetry highlighting their contributions to literature. Biographical information along with a sampling of their works are included.
This extremely informative site – Hispanic Americans in Congress – is issued by the House of Representative. It presents biographies of current and past figures as well as themed essays, such as From Democracy’s Borderlands, 1822–1898. In addition, historical data provide deep dives into the representation of Hispanics on various Congressional committees.
The Census Bureau has compiled an array of statistics highlighting the Hispanic community in the United States.
Traditional media? Podcasts? Social media? And who accesses what type of service? This informative fact sheet from Pew Research Center shows the trends and usage patterns for diverse demographic groups across the various platforms. Here are additional articles from Pew on news media trends.
This report – The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the
COVID-19 pandemic – concentrates on the failure of international cooperation/organization and offers “…to contribute to a new era of multilateral cooperation based on strong UN institutions to reduce the dangers of COVID-19…”(1)
It highlights ten areas that need oversight and offers new approaches to deal with these problems.
This new Census report gives detailed information as well as the reduction in people commuting to work.
A 59% decrease in child poverty over the past decades is highlighted in this report from ChildTrends. This document is replete with graphs and statistics showing the dramatic reduction in this troubling socioeconomic indicator.
As this season gets underway, one has recourse to: 2022 Official National Football League Record & Factbook; 2022 Media Guides For All NFL Teams; and 2022 National Football League Rulebook (this latter volume comes in at a bewildering 245 pages).
Both played prominent roles in either the English Civil Wars, the Commonwealth, or the Restoration. The biography of Charles I is here, and here is the biography of Charles II.
We have all seen the news footage about the lack of water in the Southwest, how the Colorado River is gradually diappearing along with Lake Mead. This is because that area is in the midst of an unprecented megadrought that has lasted for 1,200 years.
The mighty Colorado River, explored by John Weley Powell and written about in his thrilling report – Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its tributaries. Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, under the direction of the secretary of the Smithsonian institution (1875), is the “premier” river of the American Southwest and its drainage basins encompass six states and Mexico, providing water, and hydroelectricty, to millions of people. However, the constant population growth and the concurrent demands made on this river has diminished its capacity to supply the needed water. It is this dire:
“The Colorado River’s decline has drained three-quarters of the water from the nation’s largest reservoirs, falling closer than ever to levels where hydroelectric dams can’t generate power and millions will lose access to drinking water and irrigation supplies”. (The Washington Post, August 16, 2022)
The above just reinforces the Statement of Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton, Bureau of Reclamation before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources U.S. Senate June 14, 2022 that stated that the area has reached a tipping point and certain measures have to be enacted. Among them is the reduction in the amount of water states can take from the river by invoking a Tier 2 emergency cutting water use in Arizona by 21 percent, Nevada by 8 percent and the country of Mexico by 7 percent.
There have been other proposals offered: here is a 2011 plan to divert flood waters from the Mississippi River to the Southwest; another project would take water from the Great Lakes.
This situation is further complicated by a vast network of treaties/agreements/understandings under which the river is operated; these laws have been codified into what is labelled The Law of the River.
This just released CRS report – Management of the Colorado River: Water Allocations, Drought, and the Federal Role – is most informative as is another recent report – Responding to Drought in the Colorado River Basin: Federal and State Efforts.
This is according to a survey constructed by WalletHub using several metrics to arrive at that conclusion; an overview is given in this article from The Jersey Journal.
This is a ongoing publication that essentially takes the pulse of the economy through reports from the branches of the Federal Reserve and interviews with key economic/business leaders. It is an eagerly-awaited report. Back files to 1996 are available here.
Pamphlets are an overlooked resource due to their age, rareness, and inaccessibility in archives and libraries. This JSTOR collection, 19th Century British Pamphlets, contains almost 26,000 items from seven British repositories. You have the ability to search by keyword and the ability to filter results by year, language, and subcollection. A truly valuable compilation.
The FBI, under a judge’s order, has released a detailed inventory of the contents of the numerous boxes removed from Mar-a-Lago. Among such mundane items as clothing and books are papers labeled confidential, secret, and top secret along with numerous empty folders of sensitive material.
Congressman Frank J. Guarini Library Blog 