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This report is the result of IWPR’s research efforts to examine the employment situations of low-wage women workers and provide policy suggestions for improving their labor market outcomes. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), the report analyzes factors related to job retention and job mobility among low-income mothers, with special focus on work supports such as employer-provided health insurance and child care support, as well as job characteristics. T

he study was made possible by financial support from the Joyce Foundation. The printing and dissemination of the report is supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

The Commission on Growth and Development released its final report,The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development,which looks at how developing countries can achieve fast sustained and equitable growth.

The Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC” or “Commission”) submits this Report pursuant to Section 9 of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (the “CAN-SPAM Act”), 15 U.S.C. § 7708, which calls for the Commission to: (1) set forth a plan and timetable for establishing a National Do Not Email Registry; (2) explain any practical, technical, security, privacy, enforcement, or other concerns that the Commission has regarding such a Registry; and (3) explain how a Registry would be applied with respect to children with email accounts.

The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium (NMC)’s Horizon Project, a five-year qualitative research effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations. The 2008 Horizon Report, the fifth in this annual series, is produced as a collaboration between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE program.

The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2006 aims to shine a stronger policy spotlight on the more neglected goal of literacy - a foundation not only for achieving EFA but, more broadly, for reaching the overarching goal of reducing human poverty.

In December 2006 we launched an inquiry into the voluntary carbon offset market. The voluntary carbon offset market allows companies, public bodies and individuals the opportunity to choose to purchase credits generated from projects that either prevent or reduce an amount of carbon entering the atmosphere, or that capture carbon from the atmosphere.

WIND:  Powering a Cleaner, Stronger America.

Making a Strategic Commitment to a Stable, Clean Energy Supply!