Taxes

From the Citizens for Tax Justice

United States Remains One of the Least Taxed Industrial Countries
(PDF; 66 KB)

Taxes continue to take up a relatively small part of American economic output, according to data compiled by Citizens for Tax Justice from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. Census.

For example, in all but two OECD countries, taxes make up a larger percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) than in the United States.

Agricultural Statistics

From the National Agricultural Library:

National Agricultural Library Releases New Digital Collection:

Fruit and Vegetable Market News Reports

The reports are a collection of statistics on the annual shipment summaries of fresh fruit and vegetable commodities in the United States from 1916 to 1998, and of regional summaries of arrival/unload totals from 1960 to 1980 or 1998, depending on the area.
These historical data were compiled by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service and its predecessor agencies.

To access and search, select the collection on this page.

Global Legal Information

From the Law Library of Congress:

Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)

This is "a public database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations.
Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN. All summaries are available to the public, and public access to full texts is also available in participating jurisdictions."

Searchable, or browsable using the subject term index. From the Law Library of Congress.

URL: http://www.glin.gov

Transportation Statistics

From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics:

Transportation Statistics Annual Report 2006 (Online Version)

This report presents selected transportation data on 13 topics specified in the legislative mandate of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.


Some tables are available in HTML, CSV, and XLS formats.

National Wetlands Research Center Library

A library for research in wetland science:

Fact Sheet: Welcome to the National Wetlands Research Center Library: Not Just Another Library–A Special Library

The NWRC library is the only USGS library dedicated to wetland science. Library personnel offer expert research services to meet the informational needs of NWRC scientists, managers, and support personnel.

Direct PDF, 2 pages.

Direct to NWRC Library Web Site

Performance Pay for Teachers

From The Center for Teaching Quality:

Performance-Pay for Teachers: Designing a System that Students Deserve

From press release
(PDF; 110 KB)

Teachers will support performance-pay plans that advance student achievement and the teaching profession, says a first-of-its-kind report written by a diverse group of expert teachers from across the United States.

The new TeacherSolutions study proposes radical changes in the way teachers have traditionally been compensated, including:

Rewarding small teams of teachers who raise student achievement together;
Rewarding teachers who accept challenging assignments in high-needs schools and strengthen connections between school and community; and
Redesigning pay systems so that teacher success, not seniority or graduate degrees, determines maximum teacher pay.

Executive Summary (PDF; 386 KB)
Full Report (PDF; 844 KB)

American Presidency

The American Presidency Project

This website contains a searchable database of tens of thousands of documents from U.S. presidents from 1789 to the present. Includes inaugural addresses, press briefings, signing statements, and debates.

Also features data on topics such as popularity and number of public appearances, election results back to 1828, and an archive of audio and video clips. A collaboration between John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

URL: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu