Almanac Of The 50 States 2005

Almanac of the 50 States, an annual ready-reference source, contains eight statistical profile pages for every State. The main portion of the book is a collection of 52 basic data profiles: one for each of the 50 States; one for the District of Columbia; and one for the U.S. in summary. The same format is used for each profile, which are collected State by State and presented in alphabetical order. Supplementing the profiles is a group of 54 comparative tables which list the States in rank order on 54 key characteristics selected from the individual profiles. Information for the Almanac of the 50 States comes from the latest reports of federal government agencies, augmented with selected data from the private sector. The book is updated annually.Each profile contains the following information: State Summary: highlights the important facts about the State Geography & Environment: includes total area; highest and lowest points; federally owned land; capital city; largest city; state parks budgets & visitors; national forest land Demographics & Characteristics of the Population: includes Census data on population; persons by age, race, sex, marital status; households & families; population projections to the year 2010; immigration & naturalization Vital Statistics & Health: includes births, deaths, marriages & divorces; abortions; adoptions; physicians, dentists; hospital costs Education: includes college graduates, school enrollment level; teachers & teachers' salaries; school receipts & expenditures; graduating high school seniors; higher education Social Insurance & Welfare Programs: includes Social Security benefits & beneficiaries; Medicare/Medicaid enrollment & payments; AFDC; Food Stamps Housing & Construction: includes housing units, occupancy; building permits issued, value; existing home sales Government & Elections: includes State officials; the governorship; State legislature; local government; voting age populations; vote for president; federal representation; women & Blacks holding public office Governmental Finance: includes revenues by source; expenditures by object; federal aid by program Crime, Law Enforcement & Courts: includes crimes & crime rates; arrests & prisoners; persons under sentence of death; court data Labor & Income: includes civilian labor force by occupation & industry; employment & unemployment; average annual pay; hours and earnings of workers; union membership; personal income with projections to year 2000; federal income tax data Economy, Business, Industry & Agriculture: includes business incorporations and failures; Gross State Product; payroll by industry; farm data; per capita federal expenditures; defense department payroll, contracts, and employees; principal minerals; manufacturing employees, payroll, and value of shipments; bank data; wholesale trade, service industries Communication, Energy & Transportation: includes daily newspapers; radio & TV stations; energy consumption data; nuclear plants; highway mileage; motor vehicle registration; drivers' licenses

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Both law and weather affect us every day of our modern lives, yet most people do not know how the weather has affected developments in the law, nor are they aware of how the law has attempted to develop ways to affect the weather. When Nature Strikes is the first book to examine the various areas in which law and weather meet and affect each other. This one-of-a-kind work describes the law related to weather in the United States in the context of specific cases, legislation, and administrative legal action. For example, weather can be the means to commit a crime or the factor that turns an event from a terrible accident into a criminal act. Weather can be a defense against liability in both civil and criminal cases. People seek relief in court from the harm caused by weather events, whether a slip on the ice or the horrible devastation wrought by a deadly hurricane. Courts and the criminal justice system can be affected by weather events that prevent physical access to the courthouse or that destroy evidence. Through laws passed by Congress, U.S. weather services have evolved from simply weather recording into weather forecasting and warning systems. Federal patent law offers monopolies over inventions to encourage inventors to develop new devices that increase human safety in extreme weather or to improve methods such as cloud seeding or wind energy.