Research

My main reason for compiling this list is because oftentimes good information posted on various websites oftentimes becomes lost due to website closures. This is just a repository of files I feel contain invaluable information that will help you gain a better understanding on important issues.

NOTE: Unless otherwise stated, all documents are NOT authored by this website or any of its contributors. All credits go to the respected authors of these documents.

This page will be constantly updated, so check back often.

The following links are all in .pdf format.

EDUCATION

Congressional Black Caucus on school vouchers (BlackInformant.com document)

A School Voucher Program For Baltimore City

Reading At Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America

83 steps to Fire a N.Y. Teacher

Where Do Public School Teachers Send Their Kids to School? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute)

Head Start’s Broken Promise - By Douglas J. Besharov

Elvaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program
Impacts After Three Years (U.S. Department of Education)

GOVERNMENT

Discussion of scientific support and analysis (memo from the Obama administration questioning the EPA’s methodology linking C02 emissions to global warming).

EXPEDITED ASSISTANCE FOR VICTIMS OF HURRICANES KATRINA AND RITA FEMA’s Control. Weaknesses Exposed the Government to Significant Fraud and Abuse Monday, February 13, 2006

Democrat Operatives Far More Involved In Voter Intimidation And Suppression In 2004, Thousands Of Americans Disenfranchised By Vote Fraud On Election Day (American Center for Voting Rights)

Population Representation in the Military Services (2004)

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND REHABILITATION Review Report–HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SYSTEM

Here’s an excerpt:“It costs $3,850 per year to provide health insurance to the average California worker. CDCR spends $7,000 per inmate per year on healthcare.”

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Caplan

How HUD Mortgage Policy Fed The Crisis (Washington Post, 6/10/08)

SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY

Where Imported Oil Really Comes From

Ethanol from Corn: Just How Unsustainable Is It?

COMMUNITY

State of Our Nation’s Youth – 2004-2005

Black Homicide Victimization in the United States

Healthy Marriages in Low-Income African-American Communities (Prepared by Robert M. Franklin, Ph.D., Emory University, Stephanie C. Boddie, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis (Part 1) (Part 2)

ACORN’s Hypocritical House of Cards–Consumers Rights League

HISTORY

African American Entrepreneurship: The View from the 1910 Census

Bibliography in Western African American History

Color, Communism and Common Sense – Manning Johnson

ECONOMICS

Understanding the Unemployment Debate

GatewayJobs.com – A resource for understanding the low-skilled labor force

Recovery, Renewal, and Resiliency: Gulf Coast Small Businesses Two Years Later (by Michael Turner, Ph.D., Robin Varghese, Ph.D., Patrick Walker, M.A.–August 2007)

Raising the Minimum Wage: Another Empty Promise to the Working Poor

Employment Policies Institute (by Author(s): Richard V. Burkhauser – Cornell University, Joseph J. Sabia – University of Georgia)

African-American Chamber Survey: 40 Percent of Black Businesses Have Difficulty Finding Trained Staff; 81.8 Percent of Black Firm Employees are African-American