The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released Food Insecurity Among Working-Age Veterans, a report detailing how food security amongst working-age veterans compares with that of nonveterans. The report also provides an analysis on which veteran demographics are most impacted. Veterans with a disability, with education less than a high school...
The National Center for Education Statistics has released Report on Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2020, the 23rd edition of the publication. The report is intended to serve as “a reference for policymakers and practitioners so that they can develop effective programs and policies aimed at violence and school crime prevention.”...
The “Boogaloo Bois/Boys” are a group of anti-government extremists, rooted in anti-authority and anti-police ideology. The Boogaloo movement arose in 2019, gaining increased attention in 2020 during the Black Lives Matter protests following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, and for their response to COVID-19 lockdown measures. The...
The Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently released the Interagency Strategy for Promoting Naturalization to promote naturalization through citizenship education and awareness and by building capacity and expanding partnerships. As required by Executive Order 14012 on Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems and Strengthening...
In February 2021, a 90-day Independent Review Commission (IRC) on Sexual Assault in the Military was established to assess the military’s current treatment of sexual assault and sexual harassment. The IRC reviewed the military’s policies and processes regarding sexual assault and sexual harassment, and spoke to over 600 people including...
The Virus and the Vote: Administering the 2020 Election in a Pandemic is a compendium of the Stanford-MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] Healthy Elections Project’s research over the past election season. This final report from the Healthy Elections Project examines: The 2020 Primary Elections Battleground State Profiles In-Person Voting Mail...
The U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons issued their annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report for 2021. This year’s edition not only presents country data assessments and tier rankings, but also explores the effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on human trafficking...
As a part of their 20 Years of War series, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University have released High Suicide Rates Among United States Service Members and Veterans of...
Even as we gain confidence in United States (U.S.) domestic COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] vaccination coverage, none of us are safe until all of us are safe. The risk of emergent, dangerous variants where COVID-19 transmission remains high poses a risk to us all. This disease knows no borders. On...
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) 2020 Fireworks Report, the United States experienced a significant increase in fireworks-related injuries and deaths last year. “Many municipalities cancelled July 4th public fireworks displays during the COVID- 19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, which may have spurred consumers to use fireworks...
