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The library adds new books to its collection every week. Here are six books recently added.

Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison, by Nell Bernstein (2014).
"In this clear-eyed indictment of a failed institution—the juvenile detention facility—award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein shows that there is no right way to lock up a child."

Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America, by William H. Frey (2014).
"Through a compelling narrative and eye-catching charts and maps, eminent demographer Frey interprets and expounds on the dramatic growth of minority populations in the U.S. He finds that without these expanding groups, America could face a bleak future: this new generation of young minorities, who are having children at a faster rate than whites, is infusing our aging labor force with vitality and innovation."

In the Common Interest: Embracing the New American Community, by John Carona (2014).
"[This book] explains how the modern community association benefits not only residents but also the country at large. [The author] outlines the pros and cons of these communities, plus prescriptive advice for how we can make them even better."

Lone Star Nation: How Texas Will Transform America, by Richard Parker (2014).
"Richard Parker takes the reader on a tour across today's booming Texas, an evolving landscape that is densely urban, overwhelmingly Hispanic, exceedingly powerful in the global economy, and increasingly liberal."

A Race for the Future: How Conservatives Can Break the Liberal Monopoly on Hispanic Americans, by Mike Gonzalez (2014).
"[This book] reveals exactly how bureaucratic decisions that encourage public assistance and discourage assimilation hinder Hispanics and allow them to be politically monopolized by progressives."

A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico, by Amy Greenberg (2012).
"It is a story of Indian fights, Manifest Destiny, secret military maneuvers, gunshot wounds, and political spin. Along the way it captures a young Lincoln mismatching his clothes, the lasting influence of the Founding Fathers, the birth of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and America’s first national antiwar movement."

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• Technical Memorandum, Tax Relief Amendment Implementation Limit on Growth of Certain State Appropriations, Legislative Budget Board
• Memo to Board on 2014-15 Spending Limit Update, November 18, 2014
• Budget Execution Proposal (Border Security), Governor Rick Perry, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, and Speaker Joe Straus, November 17, 2014

• Private Health Insurance Market Reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Congressional Research Service, July 24, 2014
• The Uninsured Population in Texas: Understanding Coverage Needs and the Potential Impact of the Affordable Care Act, Kaiser Family Foundation, July 2014
• How Will the Uninsured in Texas Fare Under the Affordable Care Act? Kaiser Family Foundation, January 2014
• The Affordable Care Act and Health Insurance Markets: Simulating the Effects of Regulation, RAND Corporation, August 29, 2013

• "Price Transparency Efforts Target Physicians," Texas Medicine, July 2014
• Transparency and Disclosure of Health Costs and Provider Payments: State Actions, National Conference of State Legislatures, Updated June 2014
• Health Price Transparency: Improvements for Texas Consumers, Texas Department of Insurance, April 15, 2014
• Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws, Catalyst for Payment Reform and Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute, March 25, 2014
• Price Transparency in Health Care: Report from the HFMA Price Transparency Task Force, Healthcare Financial Management Association, 2014

• Uninsured drivers
  • Compulsory Auto/Uninsured Motorists, Insurance Information Institute, November 2014 and Uninsured Motorists (statistics), Insurance Information Institute
  • "Dallas County’s Uninsured Driver Rate Speeds Up," Dallas Morning News, August 16, 2014
  • "IRC: Uninsured Motorists a Perplexing, Pervasive Concern," Insurance Journal, August 12, 2014
  • Uninsured Drivers: A Societal Dilemma in Need of a Solution, Consumer Federation of America, March 2013 and Penalties for Driving without Auto Insurance by State as of January 2014, Consumer Federation of America
• "Named driver" auto insurance policies
  • "New Texas Law Aims at ‘Junk’ Auto Insurance Policies Covering Only Certain Drivers," Dallas Morning News, September 2013
  • Rule Proposal: 28 TAC §5.208 Named Driver Policy Disclosures (SB 1567), Texas Association of Benefit Administration

• "Insurance War: State-created Firm Now Wants Full Freedom," Insurancenews.net, November 1, 2014
• "Texas Mutual Quietly Helps Drive State's Workers' Comp System," Austin American Statesman, August 4, 2011
• E-Texas, chapter 2: Competitive government: Privatize the Texas Workers' Compensation Insurance Fund, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, December 1, 2000
• Our Long-Term Vision: A Stronger, More Competitive WC System, Texas Mutual Insurance Co.

• An Overview of Selected Cost Drivers in the State Budget: Presented to the Senate Finance Committee, Legislative Budget Board, September 24, 2014

• "Texas Will Leave Border Enforcement to State Police and Game Wardens," Governing, November 20, 2014
• "Texas Border Surge Partially Extended through August 2015," The Houston Chronicle, November 18, 2014
• "Texas Leaders Extend State-Led Border Surge" (press release), Office of the Governor, November 18, 2014
• "Border Surge Could Continue Through August," Texas Tribune, November 18, 2014
• Budget Execution Proposal, Office of the Governor, November 17, 2014
• Fact Sheet: Educational Services for Immigrant Children and Those Recently Arrived to the United States, U.S. Department of Education

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