With Trends & Policy, students and researchers can:
• Explore policies through topic pages organized according to concepts, events and laws; and timelines that provide a linear perspective on the development of policy
• Connect U.S. government policy with its impact and consequences by cross-searching with news articles, reports and other data sources for greater context and understanding
• Analyze and gain insight from various information sources to draw independent conclusions resulting in better research and learning outcomes
U.S. Immigration
The first installment of Trends and Policy focuses on U.S. Immigration. It simplifies the discovery process by providing a single location to cross-search relevant documents from 1790-today. These include U.S. immigration laws and other content from the legislative branch, reports and statistics from the executive and judicial branches and news content to provide additional information and context.
Statistics from many reports have been converted into CSV and Excel tables. Users can export the statistics or create and export charts directly in the product for use in assignments and research.
U.S. Healthcare
U.S. healthcare is one of the most salient, controversial and debated topics. This collection includes all major healthcare-related public laws and Congressional hearings, legislative and executive branch reports and carefully curated statistical data series.
Curated Topic Pages cover:
• COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Pandemic
• Health Disparities
• Managed Care
• Medicaid
• Medicare
• Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003
• Mental Health
• Social Security Amendments of 1965 (PL89-97)
• The Battle for Universal Coverage
• Vaccination
• And more
