Information Industry–Contentville
So Long Contentville
Contentville, a source for books, full-text articles, transcripts, and more ceased operations on Friday. You can read more about what Contentville wanted to do via the cached page from Google.

Personal Wealth–United States–Lists and Rankings
Source: Forbes
The 2001 Forbes 400 List is Now Online
The list has Gates, Buffet, and Allen at the top. Make sure to check the Richest 400 Distribution Map and the 400 Richest Americans by State Map. This list is also searchable.

Health Statistics–Tutorials
Source: National Library of Medicine
Finding and Using Health Statistics: A Self-Study Course
Learn a great deal about health statistics and the resources where you can access them. This course was originally presented by Dan Melnick, PhD at the Medical Library Association Meeting in May of 2000. It’s delivered online via Powerpoint slides and contains 15 practice exercises.

Health Resources
Environmental Resources
Source: National Library of Medicine
3 New MedlinePlus Compilations
MEDLINEplus: Indoor Air Pollution
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MEDLINEplus: Molds
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MEDLINEplus: Ozone

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Children
Source: UNICEF
New Edition Online: UNICEF’s, The State of the World’s Children, 2002
Overview/Additional Links ||| Summary ||| Full-Report

Professional Reading–Web Search
Professional Reading–Information Retrieval
Web Search–Tutorials
Learn About Info Retrieval from Google’s Director of Research
In March of 2000, Monika Henzinger, Google’s Director of Research, offered a tutorial session titled “Web Information Retrieval” at the ICDE (International Conference on Data Engineering). Obviously, attending Dr. Henzinger’s presentation in person and having the ability to ask her questions would be ideal. Nevertheless, her informative slides are useful tools to help you learn more about how web information retrieval works.
See Also: Read a 6/01 Salon interview with Monika Henzinger

Non-Profits–Technology
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
Philanthropy News Digest Publishes Technology Issue
The September 10th issue is devoted to technology resources for non-profits.
See Also: Top 25 Technology Funders (List)

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Voting–United States
Source: GAO
Elections: Voting Assistance to Military and Overseas Citizens Should Be Improved
100 pages .pdf
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Employment–United States
Source: BLS
Annual Pay Levels in Metropolitan Areas, 2000

Resource of the Week–Business
Reference–Business Resources
The Entire Doing Business In Series From Ernst & Young Available on The Web
A reminder that material from these well known reference tools are accessible (no charge) on the web. All reports are .pdf files. Each report contains a country profile, overview of the government structure, information on the economic environment, and forms of business organization and accounting practices for each country. Reports for over 20 countries are currently available. You’ll also find links to reports from the E&Y “Worldwide Corporate Tax Guide and The Global Executive (also free). High quality material worthy of your attention!

Search Engines
“Agents in the Field”
Source: Internet World
A good review of the issues and tools involved in intranet and local site search.
See Also: SearchTools.Com

News–United States
Public Policy–United States
Makeover and New Tools Planned For An Already Great Site For State News and Info, StateLine.Org
If you haven’t visited Stateline.Org you should. It’s a wonderful source for news and background info about public policy issues from all 50 States. This coming Monday, October 1st, the site will have a new look along with new navigation and personalization tools. Additionally, the site will allow you to download basic demograhic data into spreadsheet programs. The Stateline.Org is site is operated by the Pew Center on the States, a research organization administered by the University of Richmond, and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Direct to Stateline.Org

Education–ERIC
URL Change For ERIC “Systemwide” Site
The systemwide ERIC site at: http://www.accesseric.org is moving to http://www.eric.ed.gov
The old address will no longer work after October 19, 2001.

Museums–Canada
Canada’s Museum of Civilization Website Relaunched
From the news release, “Civilization.ca has been redesigned to offer additional navigation tools, pathways to news and many new interactive features: exhibitions, publications, scholarly material, educational games, online shopping and quick links to the CMCC’s special interest areas. With the recent improvements to the site, Web users will be enticed to explore and discover the wealth of the CMCC’s historical content online…The site enables visitors to further search for a precise subject or to browse through material in thematic sections: archaeology, arts and crafts, civilizations, cultures, First Peoples, history, treasures and military history. Special resources for kids, educators, scholars and the media are also available. By the beginning of November, the introductory issue of an electronic newsletter will be sent to those who subscribe through Civilization.ca.”
Direct to the Museum of Civilization Web Site

Internet–Government–Canada
New Web Site: Government On-Line Advisory Panel
From the site, “The Advisory Panel is comprised of representatives from all facets of Canadian life, including the general public, the business and the high-technology sectors, the academic and educational sector, and the voluntary sector. Its role is to ensure that government services are responsive to the needs of Canadian citizens and businesses.” At the moment you can find a small selection of Canadian Internet usage statistics on the site along with some background info about the panel.

Info Industry–Hoover’s
Hoover’s Announces New “Focus” on Subscriptions, Job Cuts, Management Changes
From the news release, “Hoover’s business model consists of multiple revenue streams including subscriptions, advertising, licensing, books and CD-ROMs. However, the company views subscriptions, which generated 63% of total revenues in the quarter ended June 30, 2001, as the principal growth driver in the current economic environment. The company’s in-depth analysis of business information services shows that the demand for services like Hoover’s in the U.S. is estimated at $800 million…”Hoover’s has historically focused on a broad mass market encompassing all businesspeople and their diverse set of needs,” continued [Jefferey] Tarr, [Hooever’s CEO]. “But market data shows that our revenues are concentrated within a more focused segment comprised primarily of professionals engaged in sales, sales support and business development. We intend to focus our efforts and resources on this customer segment that is the largest generator of revenue for our business today and that we believe offers the greatest opportunity for future revenue growth.” What Else? A reduction of about 20% to the Hoover’s workforce, the closing of the London office and several management changes.
Listen to the Hoover’s Press Conference

Business-United States
Investing–United States
Source: SEC
New Database: Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (IAPD)
From the news release, “The Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (IAPD) website provides instant access to registration documents filed by more than 9,000 registered investment advisers. The documents, filed electronically with the SEC or state securities administrators, provide information about each adviser’s business, advisory services and fees. The registration documents also disclose any disciplinary problems an adviser or its employees may have had during the last ten years.
Direct to the Database: http://www.adviserinfo.sec.gov/IAPD/Content/IapdMain/iapd_SiteMap.asp
See Also: NASD Public Disclosure Database

Politics–United States
Lobbying–United States
Source: Center for Responsive Politics
After the Attacks: A Special Report on America’s Changed Political and Legislative Landscape
From an email message, “…a brief analysis of the industries that have been, or stand to be, most impacted in the wake of the attacks on New York and Washington, inluding a look at their lobbying and campaign contributions dating back over the last two years.”

Web, Video, and Tele Conferencing
Source: Business 2.0
Updated: The “Conferencing” Section of the Business 2.0 Web Guide
A comprehensive set of articles and resources to make the most effective use of this technology.

Internet
Source: Computerworld
.Info Addresses Are Beginning to Come Online
From the article, “After months of preparations, a few Web sites are beginning to appear online with new .info top level domain addresses that can be visited using Internet browser software. More than 52,000 .info domain names have been registered since July, according to Afilias Ltd., the company designated to maintain the Internet database of all .info addresses. Those new domains went live on Saturday, though they aren’t necessarily yet online. Another 250,000 unique .info addresses are in the pipeline, waiting to be placed in the database so they may eventually be used by Internet visitors.

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Population–United States
Source: US Census
The Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Population: 2000
The American Indian Population: 2000
Each document is 2 pages .pdf

Web Search–Excite
More Job Cuts, Elimination of Services at Excite@Home
Another 500 jobs cut today along with the closing of a subsidiary. From the press release, “Also effective today, the Excite.com portal will be refining its operations to offer those Internet services most popular with users. It is anticipated that Excite.com portal will continue to provide core applications and content.” We will have to wait and see exactly what this means.

Web Search–Ask Jeeves
Source: Computerworld
License the Ask Jeeves Software for Your Enterprise, Hello to Jeeves One
From the article, Called JeevesOne, the question-answering software works like the Ask Jeeves Web site, retrieving answers to specific questions asked by the user. Prices for the software offered by the Emeryville, Calif.-based search engine company start at $100,000. Ask Jeeves had been offering the technology as a service to corporate customers such as Dell Computer Corp., Ford Motor Co., and Verizon Communications but said most of its customers preferred a self-service product that they can operate themselves. “We’ve been offering this as an ASP, but over the past few years we’ve learned that customers wanted it in-house, inside their firewall, where it is secure. And you just can’t have that with an ASP,” said Ask Jeeves spokeswoman Michele Mehl.
See Also: Official Company Announcement

Population–Canada
Source: Statistics Canada
Canada’s Population Tops 31 Million
Summary and tables.

Scholarly Publishing
Source: Nature
“The Public Library of Science and the Ongoing Revolution in Scholarly Communication”

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Poverty–United States
Income–United States
Two New Reports From the U.S. Census Are Now Online
Source: U.S. Census
Summary ||| (Full-Text) Money Income in the United States: 2000
||| (Full-Text) Poverty in the United States: 2000

Research and Development–Database
Invisible Web
New Database: IRIS (Industrial Research and Development Information System)
From the site, “The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Industrial Research and Development Information System (IRIS) links an online interface to a historical database with more than 2,500 statistical tables containing all industrial research and development (R&D) data published by NSF since 1953. These tables are drawn from the results of NSF’s annual Survey of Industrial Research and Development, the primary source for national-level data on U.S. industrial R&D.”

Transcripts—Television
Medialink Awared Patent For NewsIQ Technology
From the news relase, “NewsIQ automatically generates transcripts of television newscasts nationwide on a real-time basis and aggregates the content into a searchable, user-friendly online database.”
See Also: Direct to NewsIQ Site
See Also: Read the Complete Patent

English as A Second Language–Database
New Database: Online Directory of ESL Resources
From an announcement, “ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics has partnered with the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education to create this searchable online database which contains links to over 300 Web sites, online publications, publishers, instructional materials, listservs, databases and other resources related to
the field of English as a Second Language.”

Professional Reading
“Electronic Resources: New Issues for Library Systems with New Solutions”
The paper was written by Roxanne Missingham, Assistant Director General, Resource Sharing Division, National Library of Australia. It was presented in Rome earlier this month.

National Security–United States
Source: GPO
New Web Site: U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century
From the news release, “The site currently contains reports, news, and the Commission�s charter. Reports include the Phase II report, Seeking a National Strategy: A Concert for Preserving Security and Promoting Freedom, and the Phase III report, Roadmap for National Security: Imperative for Change.”

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Mental Health–United Kingdom–Directories
Source: Department of Health
Resource Update–Contact: A Directory for Mental Health

Fast Facts
Area Studies
Source: CIA
Update: 2001 Edition of CIA World Factbook Is Now Online
Announcement ||| Direct to the Full-Text

Web Search–Google
Source: Business Week
“Why They’re Agog Over Google”
From the article, “Google’s rise has been remarkable. In just three years, despite spending nothing on marketing, its search engine has become the 15th-most-visited Web site in the U.S., according to Jupiter Media Metrix Inc. With the company handling 120 million Web searches every day, Google’s traffic has leaped 73% so far this year, making it the top pure search site on the Web.”
See Also: Google’s Game Plan

Digitization Projects–Music
Libraries in the News
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
“A University Library Creates a Virtual Walk Through Tin Pan Alley”
From the article, The [Mississippi State] University’s library is digitizing and conserving the collection, an archive of about 22,000 pieces of ragtime, blues, show-tune, and war-song folios from the 1890s to the Great Depression. Charles H. Templeton, a businessman from Starksville, Miss., bequeathed the sheet music to the university before
his death last year.
Direct to the Templeton Sheet Music Collection

Info Industry–EBSCO
Info Industry–ISI
EBSCO and ISI Sign Linking Agreement
From the news release, “EBSCO Subscription Services and ISI� have announced a linking agreement that will provide researchers another avenue of access to quality scholarly information. Users will soon be able to link from the ISI Web of Science� to the full text of articles contained on EBSCO Online�. Completion of the links is expected by December 2001.

Info Industry–ProQuest
ProQuest Sheds 2 Businesses
From the news release, “ProQuest Company has signed a Definitive Agreement to sell its Bell & Howell North American Mail and Messaging Technologies business to Chicago-based Glencoe Capital, a private equity investment firm. Also included in the sale are Bell & Howell Scanners, a manufacturer and marketer of document scanners, and Bell & Howell Financial Services, an equipment leasing concern. All of these businesses will continue to operate under the Bell & Howell name…ProQuest Company will now be comprised of two businesses: Information and Learning and Publishing Services.

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Agriculture–United States
Source: USDA
Food and Agricultural Policy: Taking Stock in the New Century
125 pages .pdf
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Wages–United States
National Compensation Survey: Occupational Wages in the United States, 2000
Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text
The summary is a 16 page .pdf file. . The full-text document is a 189 page .pdf file.

Web Search–Google
Google Makes An Acquisition
From the news release, “Google Inc. today announced the company’s acquisition of the intellectual property, including patent rights, source code, trademarks, and associated domain names, from Outride Inc., a Redwood City, Calif.-based developer of online information retrieval technologies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. This acquisition is another example of Google’s commitment to providing the highest quality search service in the world,” said Larry Page, Google co-founder and president, Products. “Outride has made significant advances in the field of relevance technology and we believe Google provides the ideal vehicle to continue the development of these technologies.”

Info Industry–TheScientificWorld
Scientific Conferences–Specialized Databases
Articles on Demand
TheScientificWorld Continues To Add Content
From the news relase, “TheScientificWorld, Inc. today announced that, through agreements with the British Library, IOS Press and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), nearly 4 million records have been added to the Company’s core database of scientific information, sciBASE. Citations to conference papers and abstracts, held by the British Library and summarizing 100,000 meetings, conferences and symposia since 1993, are now available through sciBASE to TheScientificWorld members [membership is free] at www.thescientificworld.com. Approximately 3,000 new conference citations will be added each day. In addition, single articles dating back to January 1998 from the 30 journals of IOS Press, as well as articles published since January 2001 in Pure and Applied Chemistry, published by IUPAC, can be located, purchased and delivered online in portable document format (.pdf) through the sciBASE service.” The WorldMEET database contains info on over 4,000 scientific conferences.
See Also: Direct to TheScientificWorld

Digital Archive–New Mexico
Online Archive of New Mexico
From the site, “The Online Archive of New Mexico is a single, integrated source for searching and navigating finding aids to archival collections. These finding aids, usually called guides or inventories, contain descriptive information about archives and manuscript collections housed at research institutions in New Mexico.”

Public Schools–Database–United States
Higher Education–Database–United States
Source: NCES
Database Update #1: Public School and School District Locator
Updated for 1999-2000 School Year
Database Update #2: Students’ College Search
New Features! From the site, “You can find information on over 3,800 U.S. 2-year and 4-year colleges or universities, including: Contact information; Full-time,
First-time Undergraduate Students Tuition and Fees; Graduate Tuition; Total enrollment, degrees and programs offered; Diversity of student body; Library
Information; U.S. Dept. of Education campus crime/security statistics; and links to the U.S. Dept. of Education Student Financial Aid Homepage.”

Professional Reading
The September issue of D-Lib Libraries is Now Online
Here are 2 articles from the 9/2001issue:
“Preserving Scholarly E-Journals” by Dale Flecker
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“Linking to the Appropriate Copy, Report of a DOI-Based Prototype”

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Forestry–Canada
Source: Natural Resources Canada
The State of Canada�s Forests 2000-2001
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Health–United States–Statistics
Source: NCHS
Health, United States, 2001 With Urban and Rural Health Chartbook
460 pages .pdf
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Economic Statistics–United States
Source: U.S. Census
1997 Economic Census, Company Statistics, Company Summary
567 pages .pdf

From the Interesting Idea File
Book Forager
A new UK search tool to assist with book selection by selecting from 12 criteria. From a news release, “The software for the new initiative was developed by Applied Psychology Research which worked alongside the Society of Chief Librarians and the reader development agency, Opening the Book…”

Employment–United States
Source: Occupational Outlook Quarterly
“O*NET Update”
Learn all about several recent changes including a new web site and a set of “self-directed career exploration and assessment tools”.
Direct to the O*NET Database

Web Search–AltaVista
Source: News.Com
New CEO, More Job Cuts at AV
From the article, “AltaVista, the struggling Internet search service owned by CMGI, Monday appointed James Barnett as its chief executive officer and slashed its staff by 30 percent in its latest effort to rein in costs.”

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Business–Australia
Source: Department of Parliament Library
Foreign Ownership and Corporate Australia
3 pages .pdf
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Business–Canada
Economics–Canada
Source: Government of Canada
Annual Report: Annual Financial Report of the Government of Canada Fiscal Year 2000-2001
28 pages .pdf

Scholarly Publishing
Source: Info Today NewsBreaks
“ingenta Institute to Report Research Study Results”
From the article, “The ingenta Institute will soon convene two meetings to present the findings from its yearlong, in-depth research project, endorsed by the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI). The ingenta Institute was established in 1999 as an independent not-for-profit research foundation to sponsor original research about issues affecting the scholarly information process. It is funded by, but wholly independent of, ingenta, Inc. The institute�s 2000�2001 research project explored the relationship between journal subscriptions and document delivery, as well as the impact of online delivery on article distribution. Two previous studies investigated issues relating to online database searching and to distance and lifelong learning.”

Archives–Directory
UNESCO Archives Portal Tops 5000 Entries
From the announcement, “Launched on 7 September 2000, the UNESCO Archives Portal is intended to provide a single interactive access point to information for archivists and users of archives worldwide. Visitors to the UNESCO Archives Portal can browse through pre-established categories or search for specific words. They can add a new link or modify an already existing link. An electronic Newsletter provides information on new entries.”
Direct to the UNESCO Archives Portal

Digitization Projects–Newspaper Archives
New Beta: NewspaperDirect.Com
From a news release, NewspaperDirect, the leading innovator in print-on-demand newspaper delivery, announced today that it is opening up its beta Newspapers Online website to the world. For a limited time, visitors to the NewspaperDirect website can view complete editions of newspapers from around the world in their original print format. In light of the recent events in the United States, management at NewspaperDirect hopes that this new technology can help feed the craving for news. “NewspaperDirect’s technology provides a perspective on the global impact of the events of September 11th”, said Miljenko Horvat, NewspaperDirect’s president and CEO. “People are hungry for reporting and editorial on this event, and newspapers from around the world satisfy this need.”
See Also: Direct to the Beta Site

Small Business–Canada
Starting a Business–Canada
New Web Site: The Business Start-up Assistant (BSA)
“…consolidates essential information required by anyone wishing to launch a successful business. It combines start-up information from the Canada Business
Service Centres (CBSCs), the federal and provincial governments, the community and many other sources.”

President William J. (Bill) Clinton–Public Papers
Source: GPO
1999, Vol. II, Of Clinton Public Papers Now Available

Reference Tools–United Kingdom
Library Association Announces “Reference Works of Year” Award Winners

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Drugs–United States
Source: NCJRS
Federal Drug Offenders, 1999 with Trends, 1984-99

Home Schooling–United States
Source: U.S. Census
Home Schooling in the United States: Trends and Characteristics

Web Search–Teoma
Web Search–Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves Acquires Teoma
From the press release, “Ask Jeeves, Inc., a leading provider of natural language question answering and search technologies, today announced it has acquired privately held Teoma Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of next generation Web search technologies. The acquisition will enable Ask Jeeves(R) to provide one of the most advanced search technologies on the Web. Started by scientists at Rutgers University, Teoma has been hailed in recent months by industry experts as “the next big thing in search engines” and described as “running rings around” other search engines. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.” Ask Jeeves CEO Skip Battle said, “We are confident this investment will allow us to reach new audience segments while increasing the frequency and use from current customers, all of which will increase our revenue opportunities.” …”The search algorithms that Teoma has developed are among the most advanced in the market,” said Steve Berkowitz, president of Ask Jeeves Web Properties. “Over the coming months we will integrate Teoma�s technology into our sites while focusing on advancing the technology through such efforts as increasing the size of their search database.”
Direct to Teoma
Direct to Ask Jeeves

ERIC Clearninghouse on Information Technology
Education–ERIC Database
ERIC Clearinghouse Updates Site, New URL, Adds New Full-Text Tool
The site has a new resource that allows you to search over 1,000 of the latest research reports, conference papers, opinion papers, selected articles and other ERIC documents in the fields of Library Science and Educational Technology and receive the documents in full text immediately.

Digitization Projects–Newspapers
Source: AP
“Web Site Would Make Newspaper Articles from as Far Back as 17th Century Accessible to Public”
More on the Cold North Wind project.

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E-Government–United States
“Taubman Center for Public Policy Study Finds Improvement in State and Federal ‘e-Government’ Web Sites”
From the release, A second annual analysis of “e-government” conducted by researchers at Brown University has found that the Web sites and Internet services of state and federal government agencies have improved significantly during the last year, providing better citizen access to online information and services.”
Direct to Full-Text of Report

Higher Education–United States–Lists and Rankings
Source: U.S. News
America’s Best Colleges 2002
The 2002 rankings are now available. The College Search tool offers numerous options.

Web Search-GoTo.Com
Source: News.Com
Name Change: GoTo.Com Soon To Be Known As Overture Networks
From the article, “The top paid-listing search service says it expects to spend “less than $1 million” in the next six months to publicize the new name. The company will officially change its name Oct. 8. The move, first announced nearly a year ago, is meant to broaden the company’s reach and alter its image from a destination site to a licensed search service. Search services make up 95 percent of the company’s business.”
See Also: Official Company Announcement

Internet Usage–United States–Senior Citizens
Source: Pew Center
Wired Seniors: A Fervent Few, Inspired by Family Ties
See Also: “Study Says Seniors Enthusiastic Online” (AP)
From the article, “These seniors, once they realize the vast amount of information available for them, they love it,” said Susannah Fox, the project’s research director. “They don’t have to go down to the library to find out about … whatever (illness) their doctor’s telling them they have.”

Internet2
Source: Wired
“Kids, Academics Share Internet2″
From the article, “Internet2, the high-performance research and education network previously reserved for universities, has opened Abilene �- the name of one of its backbone networks �- to statewide education networks as part of its K20 initiative.”
See Also: Direct to the Internet2 Site

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U.S. Government
Source: GPO
The United States Government Manual — 2001 / 2002
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Demographics–United States
Source: U.S. Census
Gender 2000
“The nation’s male population grew at a slightly faster rate (13.9 percent) than the female population (12.5 percent) over the last decade of the 20th century.”
Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text ||| Detailed Tables
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State Government Spending–United States
Local Government Spending–United States
Source: U.S. Census
Spending By the Nation’s State and Local Governments, 1999
Summary ||| Direct to Database