CDC
More than 145 million adults now include walking as part of a physically active lifestyle. More than 6 in 10 people walk for transportation or for fun, relaxation, or exercise, or for activities such as walking the dog.
11.1 Million Unauthorized Immigrants Were Living in the U.S. in 2011
DHAP Annual Report: Accelerating Progress, Investing for Impact
CDC
Teachers Say that for Students Today ‘Research = Googling’
The Research SUPPLEMENTAL POVERTY MEASURE: 2011
US: Economic opportunity by state
Unemployment Rates by Education, 2007-2012
www.cepr.net
Pro–’Right to Work’ Groups In Michigan Outspend Union Counterparts
The Nation
Housing Cost as a Percentage of Income for Households with Children
FIFCFS | Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness
Better Transportation Options = Healthier Lives
RWJF
Nonprofits and the Economy
www.nonprofitquarterly.org
Seniors’ Reported Sources of Information About Medicare Drug Benefit
www.kff.org
Among the 52% of seniors who say they received information aboutthe Medicare drug benefit: Percent who say they received information from . . .
Most Americans Believe Failure to Avoid Fiscal Cliff Would Have a Major Impact
Lifetime prevalence of DSM-IV/WMH-CIDI disorders by sex and cohort (n=9282)
https://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/ncs/
1 This table includes updated data as of July 19, 2007. Updates reflect the latest diagnostic, demographic and raw variable information.
2 Assessed in the Part II sample (n = 5692).
3 Assessed in a random one-third of the Part II sample (n = 2073).
4 Assessed in the Part II sample among respondents in the age range 18-44 (n = 3197).
5 Estimated in the Part II sample. No adjustment is made for the fact that one or more disorders in the category were not assessed for all Part II respondents.
6 Disorder with hierarchy
Gap Between Need and Availability of Affordable Units for Poor Renters
Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness
Child Injury
CDC
Car crashes, suffocation, drowning, poisoning, fires, and falls are some of the most common ways children are hurt or killed.
United States Cancer Statistics: Top Ten Cancers 2004-2008 Women
Many Americans Don’t Fully Understand Fiscal Cliff Impact
Number of Poor Rental Households and Available Affordable Units
Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness
Breast Cancer
CDC
Black women have the highest death rates of all racial and ethnic groups and are 40% more likely to die of breast cancer than white women.
Number of new HIV Infections among youth by sex and race/ethnicity—United States, 2010
CDC. Vital Signs: HIV Infection, Testing, and Risk Behaviors Among Youths – United States. MMWR 2012:61
HIV Among Youth in the US
CDC
About 50,000 people are infected with HIV each year, and 1 in 4 is 13 to 24 years old.
History Of Automatic Cost-Of-Living Adjustments: Social Security in US
SSA
The UK poverty line
www.cpag.org.uk
Fast Facts & Figures About Social Security, 2012
Did You Know That…
– SSA paid benefits to about 60.4 million people in 2011
– Social Security provided at least half the income for 65 percent of the aged beneficiaries in 2010
– Social Security benefits were awarded to about 5.6 million people in 2011
– Women accounted for 56 percent of adult Social Security beneficiaries in 2011
– The average age of disabled-worker beneficiaries was 53.0 in 2011
– Eighty-five percent of SSI recipients received payments because of disability or blindness in 2011
Big Political Divide on Proposals to Raise Taxes on Wealthy
Nearly Half Support Legalization of Marijuana
Prescription Painkiller Overdoses: Use and Abuse of Methadone as a Painkiller
CDC
Broad Concern about ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Consequences
EU Member states granted citizenship to more than 800 000 persons in 2010 – Issue number 45/2012
Teen Drinking and Driving: A Dangerous Mix
CDC
Key Welsh Economic Statistics – November 2012
wales.gov.uk
The unemployment rate in Wales was 8.2 per cent of the economically active population during July to September 2012, down from 9.3 per cent a year ago.
Wide and Growing Income Gaps in Most States
CBPP
Latinos Express Growing Confidence In Personal Finances, Nation’s Direction
Number of SSI Recipients, 1974–2011
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Supplemental Security Record (Characteristic Record Extract format), 100 percent data.
Most Americans See China as a Competitor
Behind Gay Marriage Momentum, Regional Gaps Persist
Number of Americans with Mobile Connections to the Web on the Rise
Size of Income, 1962 and 2010
SSA
SOURCES: Data for 1962 are from Social Security Administration, The Aged Population of the United States: The 1963 Social Security Survey of the Aged (1967). Data for 2010 are Social Security Administration calculations from the March 2011 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey.
Risk of relative poverty of men and women by age, OECD average, 2008
The Atlantic
Poverty rate of the entire population = 100
Most in China See Growing Income Inequality
Statistics on NHS Stop Smoking Services: England, April 2012 to June 2012
Key Facts
• 176,945 people set a quit date through NHS Stop Smoking Services, a decrease of 17% (35,363) on the final figure for same period in 2011/12 (212,308), and an decrease of 7% (13,473) on the final figure for the same period in 2010/11 (190,418).
• At the 4 week follow-up 86,341 people had successfully quit (based on self-report), 49% of those setting a quit date. This is a decrease of 15% (15,214) on the final figure for the same period in 2011/12 (101,555), and also a decrease of 3% (3,074) on the final figure for the same period in 2010/11 (89,415).
Measuring National Well-being – Measuring children’s well-being
Figure 2: Percentage of children born with a low birth weight for selected OECD countries, 2011 International
CIS-2008 Major Findings Supplementary Tables: Duration of Maltreatment by Primary Substantiated Maltreatment
Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2008
Figure 1: Duration of maltreatment by primary category of substantiated maltreatment, including confirmed risk of future maltreatment, in Canada in 2008
Youth unemployment mapped
Guardian | Google
More Americans Worry about Financing Retirement
Soup Kitchens Caused the Great Depression
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Educational Distribution of Inmate Population, Men Ages Twenty to Thirty-Four, 1980 and 2008
Russell Sage Foundation
In-patients formally detained in hospitals under the Mental Health Act, 1983 – and patients subject to Supervised Community Treatment – Annual Figures, England 2011/12
Figure 5: Outcomes of Section 136 orders by year (where the place of safety was a hospital)
Social care network member survey results: infographic
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Guardian | S Oneill