Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output from January 2010 Through March 2010 - This Congressional Budget Office report finds that Recovery Act spending raised the level of real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) by up to 4.2 percent, lowered the unemployment rate by between 0.7 percentage points and 1.5 percentage points, increased the number of people employed by between 1.2 million and 2.8 million, and increased the number of full-time-equivalent jobs by 1.8 million to 4.1 million compared with what those amounts would have been otherwise.

The State of Metropolitan America - This Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program report portrays the demographic and social trends shaping the nation’s essential economic and societal units -- its large metropolitan areas.  It highlights the rise in exurban sprawl at the same time new patterns of density are also rising in urban and suburban areas, the rising diversity of the population, the aging of the population, the effects of uneven higher education attainment, and income polarization across different metropolitan areas.

America’s Future: Latino Child Well-Being in Numbers and Trends - This National Council of La Raza (NCLR) data book offers 25 indicators of child well-being for Latino children across the nation.  The data and trends clearly show that Latino children face multiple obstacles and inequalities that impede them from enjoying a successful adulthood.

Health Care Implementation and Reform:

• Health Care Reform and the Class Act - This brief by the Kaiser Family Foundation explains the functions and long-term costs savings to state Medicaid programs from the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports program (CLASS Act) program in the federal health reform law.  When individuals begin receiving CLASS long-term care benefits after 2017, those benefits will be used to partially offset the costs to the states of Medicaid.
• Optimizing Medicaid Enrollment: Perspectives on Strengthening Medicaid’s Reach Under Health Care Reform - The Kaiser Family Foundation uses interviews with Medicaid program directors and other experts to highlight how strengthening enrollment procedures can recast Medicaid as an affordable program for working people and families and fulfill the reform’s coverage goals.
• Federal Government Will Pick Up Nearly All Costs of Health Reform's Medicaid Expansion - Analysis from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explains why the Medicaid expansion included in health reform is a good deal for states.  In its first five years, the expansion will add a mere 1.25 percent to what states were already projected to spend on Medicaid over the same period.  The huge benefit of this very modest price tag will provide health coverage to 16 million more low-income adults and children.  Plus, expanding health coverage will help states reduce spending on other services for the uninsured.