https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/vet.pdf
The unemployment rate for post-2001 veterans moved down to 5.1% in 2016. Provides details about veterans’ employment status by gender, age, service-connected disability status, and state. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.trade.gov/fta/tpp/pdfs/full-country-report.pdf
Highlights benefits U.S. businesses can acquire when exporting to the 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries. Covers each market’s top export sectors and explains how existing tariffs will be affected once the agreement enters into force. From the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Commerce Department
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R44313.pdf
Examines past efforts to achieve U.S. foreign policy goals and objectives through strengthening foreign security institutions in countries that share those interests. Explores 20 case studies since World War II according to one of seven strategic U.S. goals. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists
http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/673422.pdf
Presents case studies of U.S. and Chinese trade and investment competition in Vietnam and Indonesia. Public version of a report that is also being issued in a nonpublic, sensitive version for government officials. From the Government Accountability Office
Assesses China’s economic significance for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, including China’s trade and investment with ASEAN as a whole, and statistics on the volume and percentage of each ASEAN nation’s trade with China. A staff report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
http://static.history.state.gov/frus/frus1969-76v38p2/pdf/frus1969-76v38p2.pdf
Documents the effect of the Vietnam War outcome, the Watergate Scandal, the Nixon resignation, and greater Congressional assertiveness in foreign affairs on the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. From the State Department
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43790.pdf
Covers what Agent Orange is, legislative and judicial efforts by veterans to obtain health care services and compensation, and current issues such as paternally mediated birth defects. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/R43433.pdf
Describes the provisions of the Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, signed by the two countries in December 2013, and the issues of potential controversy when Congress reviews the treaty including nonproliferation and human rights. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists