2012 Edition of THE BOOK OF THE STATES

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The 2012 edition of The Book of the States, The Council of State Governments' annual almanac of information about the states, is now available online.    The current edition includes 32 articles from 34 authors, with 172 external tables and approximately 85,000 individual pieces of data.     The book includes articles on such things as:   State constitutional developments in 2011; Governors' state of the state addresses; State budget and taxes; and  Health care reform. The tables cover areas including: State spending on education, health care and transportation; Candidate spending on elections; Salaries of selected state administrative officials; and  Trends in state prison populations. The Council of State Governments has published The Book of the States since 1935. Editions dating back to 2004 are now available at the CSG Knowledge Center.