Archives for: December 2010
U.S. Teen Birth Rate Hits Record Low
December 22nd, 2010Link: http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2010/r101221.html
The birth rate for U.S. teens aged 15-19 years fell to a record low, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The 2009 birth rate of 39.1 births per 1,000 teens is down 6 percent from the 2008 rate of 41.5 births per 1,000. This is the lowest ever recorded in seven decades of tracking teenage childbearing. Birth rates for younger and older teens and for all race/ethnic groups reached historic lows in 2009.
Direct link to the Full Report (.pdf)
Hate Crime Statistics 2009
December 7th, 2010Link: http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2009/index.html
The hate crime data in this Web publication comprise a subset of information that law enforcement agencies submit to the Uniform Crime Reporting Program. The types of hate crimes reported to the program (i.e., the biases that motivated the crimes) are further broken down into more specific categories. As collected for each hate crime incident, the aggregate data in this report include the following: offense type, location, bias motivation, victim type, number of individual victims, number of offenders, and the race of the offenders.
Immigration Policy in the United States: An Update (CBO)
December 7th, 2010Link: http://cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=11959
This document updates the Congressional Budget Office's February 2006 paper Immigration Policy in the United States. It presents data through 2009 on permanent and temporary admissions of foreign nationals to the United States, the number and types of visas issued, the naturalization of residents, and enforcement of immigration laws—and makes comparisons with 2004, which was the most recent year for which most data were reported in the earlier paper.
