Orders state agencies to exceed a goal of 42% in expenditures spent with small and minority-owned businesses in the state and to create a micro business designation for employers with no more than 25 employees. From the Office of the Governor
http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/corporate/HDR/2014HDR/HDR-2014-English.pdf
Annual (and extremely slow loading) UN report on major development issues, trends, and policies. From the UN Development Programme
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db160.pdf
Reports that health insurance may have played a factor in visits to the emergency room by families with children. Children with Medicaid coverage were more likely than uninsured children or those with private insurance coverage to have visited the emergency room. From the National Center for Health Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2014/2014064.pdf
Reports that 78% of principals remained at the same school during the following year. Also covers gender and age of principals, and reasons for leaving. From the National Center for Education Statistics
Latest annual report on estimated consumer savings due to the so-called 80/20 rule of the Affordable Care Act (aka the Medical Loss Ratio rule) which requires insurers to refund money to plan enrollees if companies spend more than 20% of premiums on administrative overhead, profits, or related non- medical care expenses. From the Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db158.pdf
About 30% of children and teens misperceive their weight status. Accurate weight status perception has been linked to appropriate weight control behaviors in youth at a time when nearly 17% of children and adolescents are obese. From the National Center for Health Statistics
http://ersterweltkrieg.bundesarchiv.de/
A collection of hundreds of thousands of records and images from World War I placed online by the German government upon the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the conflict. From the Federal Republic of Germany
http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/files/%20BPC%209-11%20Commission.pdf
Reflections on how the world has changed over the past decade, the current terrorist threat to the U.S., and how to improve U.S. security from the former members of the commission that produced the 9/11 report. Sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center