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Government Resources: States: United States

UNITED STATES: SELECTED STATISTICS AND INFORMATION (IN PROGRESS)

U.S.: Communications, Data and Information

Our Wireless Future: Building a Comprehensive Approach
to Spectrum Policy: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, First Session, July 16, 2019.

U.S. Economy, Business, Labor, Banking, Industry and Trade

U.S. Economy at a Glance (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
U.S. Economic Census by Year (U.S. Census Bureau)
Business and Economy (U.S. Census Bureau)
US Announces Release of 50 Million Barrels from Oil
Reserves, November 23, 2021 (VOA News)
President Biden Statement on CPI Inflation in June,
July 13, 2022 (VOA News)

U.S. Education, Literacy and Libraries

College-Educated Americans Have More Friends, Are Less Lonely,
Study Finds, December 28, 2022 (VOA News)
Condition of Education (National Center for Education
Statistics)
Digest of Education Statistics (National Center for Education
Statistics)
Educational Attainment in the United States: 2021 (U.S. Census Bureau)

U.S. Environment, Climate, Geology, Energy, Mining, Animals and Natural Disasters

Fauna and Flora Declared Extinct, September 29, 2021
(VOA News)
Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the
United States: A Scientific Assessment (National Institute of Environmental Health)
Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, 22 More Species Extinct,
September 29, 2021 (VOA News)
President Biden's Executive Actions on Climate to Address
Extreme Heat and Boost Offshore Wind, July 20, 2022 (The White House)

U.S.: Equality, Democracy, Provacy, Civil and Human Rights

Federal Hate Crime Prosecutions, 2005-19 (Bureau
of Justice Statistics)
US to Return to Controversial UN Human Rights Council
October 14, 2021 (VOA News)

U.S. General Information

U.S. Government News

U.S. Government News

U.S. Health, Disability, Safety, Nutrition and Fitness

Current Cigarette Smoking Among U.S. Adults Aged
18 Years and Older (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention )
National Center for Health Statistics Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention)
President Biden Appoints Cancer Panel Members
and Cancer Cabinet Unveils Priority Actions. Fact Sheet, July 13.2022 (The White House)
Safety Monitoring of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19
Vaccine Booster Doses Among Children Aged 5–11 Years — United States, May 17–July 31, 2022, August 19, 2022 (Morbidity Weekly Report, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Summary of Guidance for Minimizing the Impact
of COVID-19 on Individual Persons, Communities, and Health Care Systems — United States, August 2022 (MMWR, Mortality Weekly Report)
US Tops 700,000 COVID Deaths, October 1, 2021 (VOA
News)
White House Claims Legal Right for Vaccine Mandate
on Large Businesses, November 9, 2021 (VOA News)

U.S. Military, Defense, Security, Intelligence and Terrorism

Total Force Military Demographics (U.S. Department
of Defense)
US Military Bases Honoring Confederate Figures Slated
to Get New Names, July 5, 2022 (VOA News)

U.S.: Population, Refugees and Migration

U.S. Public Safety, Corrections, Law Enforcement and Crime

Correctional Populations in the United States, 2019 –
Statistical Tables (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
Law Enforcement (Office of Justice Programs (Bureau
of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice)
State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies,
2018 – Statistical Tables (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
Use of Force (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
Why Homicide Rates in US Spiked 30% During COVID
Pandemic, February 2, 2022 (VOA News)

U.S. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
(National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics)

U.S. Transportation and Infrastructure

United States: Weapons and Firearms

Hearing on the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 Hearing
before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session, February 27, 2013.
Justice Department Launches Firearms Trafficking Strike
Forces to Address Violent Crime, Crack Down on Sources of Crime Guns, July 22, 2021 (U.S. Department of Justice)
School Shootings: VOA Special Report, June 1, 2022 (VOA News)
Semiautomatic Assault Weapons Ban, 2019-
(Congressional Research Service)

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