Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Women--Lists & Rankings
Source: Forbes
Just Released, The 100 Most Powerful Women
The Top Ten
1. Condoleezza Rice
2. Wu Yi
3. Yulia Tymoshenko
4. Gloria Arroyo
5. Margaret Whitman
6. Anne Mulcahy
7. Sallie Krawcheck
8. Brenda Barnes
9. Oprah Winfrey
10. Melinda Gates
Note: Kudos to librarian/speaker/author/Director of Research at Forbes/friend/ResourceShelf reader/user, Anne Mintz, who worked on this just released list. She even gets a mention in the "Reported by" section of the article.
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Business Ownership--United States--Statistics
Source: US Census
New, Minority Groups Increasing Business Ownership at Higher Rate than National Average, Census Bureau Reports
"Minority groups and women are increasing their business ownership at a much higher rate than the national average, according to new tabulations titled Preliminary Estimates of Business Ownership by Gender, Hispanic or Latino Origin, and Race: 2002, from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2002 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) released today." SummaryBy SectorBy State
See Also: California Home to Growing Number of Minority- and Women-Owned Firms, Census Bureau Announces
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Youth--United States--Statistics
Source: NCES
Just Released, Youth Indicators 2005: Trends in the Well-Being of American Youth
"Youth Indicators contains statistics that address important aspects of the lives of youth, including family, schooling, work, community, and health. The report focuses on American youth and young adults 14 to 24 years old, and presents trends in various social contexts that may relate to youth education and learning."
-- Children--Well-Being--United States
Source: Annie E. Casey Foundation KIDS COUNT 2005 Data Book Online
From press release (PDF; 36 KB): "National trends in child well-being are no longer improving in the rapid and sustained way they did in the late 1990s, according to a report released today. Among the negative trends: the number of children who live with parents facing persistent unemployment grew to 4 million, an increase of more than 1 million since 2000. These parents often face issues such as domestic violence, depression, substance abuse, and prior incarceration that make connecting to the workforce especially difficult." Download entire data book(PDF; 5.4 MB)
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Music History
Digitization Projects
Source: University of Pittsburgh Digital Research Library
Just Released, Stephen Foster's Sketchbook
"The Digital Research Library released an image collection containing the page images of Stephen Foster's Sketchbook, which contains draft texts for sixty-four songs including several of his most popular ones such as 'Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,' 'My Old Kentucky Home,' and 'Old Folks at Home' (or "Way Down Upon the Swanee River?). The sketchbook, which dates to June 26, 1851, can be searched by a full-text transcription or browsed by song title." Searchable.
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