US immigration trends report [Pew Hispanic Center] News
US immigration trends report [Pew Hispanic Center]

Rise, Peak, and Decline: Trends in U.S. Immigration 1992-2004, Pew Hispanic Center, September 27, 2005 [report concluding that legal immigration to the US has decreased and the rate of illegal immigration into the US has increased since the September 11 terror attacks]. Read the full text of the report here [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chasehere.

THIS DAY @ LAW

Suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt born

Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragist, womens' rights advocate and co-founder of the League of Women Voters, was born on January 9, 1859.

Visit the Carrie Chapman Catt Childhood Home.

Great Britain's first income tax introduced

On January 9, 1799, British Prime Minister William Pitt introduced Great Britain's first income tax. The tax was announced the previous December as a means of raising money for war against Napoleon. Pitt's successor, Henry Addington, repealed the tax when hostilities subsided in 1802. Addington then reinstated the tax during the following year when fighting was renewed. The Addington tax model later became the model for the modern British income tax. Learn about the history of income taxation in Great Britain from Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs.