MACRO ECONOMY

• American Fact Finder (Community wise Population, housing, economic and geographic data)
• Brookings Institute
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Council of Economic Advisors, Economic Report of the President
• Federal Intra Agency Council on Statistics
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• NBER online data
• The U.S. Department of Labor
• US Census Bureau

GOVERNMENT FINANCE

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• County and City Data Books
• Government Finance Statistics
• Tax Policy Center
• Tax statistics of the IRS
• The National Conference of State Legislatures
• The National Governors Association
• The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
• U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)

ENVIRONMENT

• Energy Information Administration (EIA)
• League of Conservation Voters (LCV)
• Resources for the Future (RFF)
• The Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)
• The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• The National Environmental Data Index (NEDI)
• The National Governors Association’s Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Division
• The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
• The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

DEFENSE AND HOMELAND SECURITY

• The Center for Defense Information (CDI)
• The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)
• The National Governors Association’s Homeland Security and Technology Division
• The Rand Corporation
• The U.S. Department of Defense

POLITICAL ECONOMY

• The Campaign Finance Institute
• The Federal Elections Commission
• The Initiatives and Referendum Institute (University of Southern California)
• The James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy (George Mason University)

EDUCATION

• “No Child Left Behind.”
• The National Center for Educational Statistics
• The National Governors Association’s Education Division
• The NBER Program on Education
• The Program on Education Policy and Governance (Harvard University)
• U.S. Department of Education
• Urban Institute
• Website on college financial aid

SOCIAL SECURITY

• 2004 Green Book (published by U.S. House Ways and Means Committee)
• President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security
• The Cato Institute’s Project on Social Security Choice
• The Center for Retirement Research (Boston College)
• The Concord Coalition
• The Health and Retirement Survey (HRS)
• The Michigan Retirement Research Center
• The NBER Program on Aging
• U.S. Social Security Administration

HEALTH CARE

• Center for Disease Control’s National Center for Health Statistics
• Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured (ERIU)
• Medicaid
• Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
• Medicare
• The American Association of Retired Persons
• The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
• The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
• The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
• The National Association of State Medicaid Directors
• The National Conference of State Legislatures
• The National Governors Association

POVERTY, INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND WELFARE

• Administration for Children and Families
• Housing and Urban Development’s web site (HUD)
• The Green Book (on rules for the major transfer programs, as well as many social insurance programs)
• The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP - University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• The Joint Center for Poverty Research
• The National Poverty Center (University of Michigan)
• The National Survey of America’s Families (NSAF)
• The Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI)
• The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
• The Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD)
• U.S. Department of Agriculture: Nutrition Assistance Programs and Food Assistance and Nutrition