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Websites

Addiction Search, this website provide well-respected and reliable sources for substance abuse, treatment and recovery.

American FactFinder , " The Census Bureau is the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy."

Better World Links, over 30,000 well-organized links in such topic areas as Human Rights, Social Justice and Women and Economics, etc.

Catalog of Nonprofit Literature, A searchable interface to approximately 28,000 citations for articles, books, media resources, and grey literature from the nonprofit sector.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, "The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) was founded in 1981 by Robert Greenstein to analyze federal budget priorities, with a particular focus on how budget choices affect low-income Americans."

Everyday Sociology, looks at current events and contemporary issues from a sociologist's point of view; contributors are experienced sociology professors from several academic institutions in the US.

Feminist Theory Website, 5,425 bibliographical entries, 593 links to internet sites; 684 paragraphs giving information, hosted by Virginia Tech University.

Fòs Feminista, " The international women's health coalition advances the sexual and reproductive health and rights of woman and girls worldwide." Note: International Weomen's Health Coalition and Center for Health and Gender Equality now consolidated under the umbrella of International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region aka Fòs Feminista.

Gapminder," is an independent educational non-profit fighting global misconceptions."

Program on the Global Demography of Aging at Harvard University, Harvard School of Public Health; the site is intended as a research portal on this issue.

HIV Statistic Center, Center for disease control and prevention.

Institute for Social Research, Social Sciences in the Public Interest.

International Institute of Social Studies, Part of Erasmus University Rotterdam.

ILOSTAT, labor statistics database; the site provides current labor statistic in core areas for a large number of countries from reliable government sources.

Media Cloud, Developed by Ethan Zuckerman and others at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, Media Cloud allows users to compare and contrast news coverage in three ways in up to three sources.

Migration Information Source, "The Migration Information Source provides fresh thought, authoritative data, and global analysis of international migration and refugee trends".

National Association of Counties, NACO; of particular interest is the County Resource Center.

NCSL, National conference of state legislatures.

Medline Plus, very reliable health information.

National Institute on Aging, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

Office of Management and Budget, "The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) serves the President of the United States in overseeing the implementation of his or her vision across the Executive Branch. OMB’s mission is to assist the President in meeting policy, budget, management, and regulatory objectives and to fulfill the agency’s statutory responsibilities."

Penn- Medical Ethics & Health Policy, The Center's mission is to "promote scholarly and public understanding of the ethical, legal, social and public policy implications of advances in the life sciences and medicine." The site features the online Penn Bioethics Newsletter, searchable from 1995 to the present; recent newsletter articles address such topics as universal health care, dementia and the voting process, and so on.

Pew Research Center, "Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research."

PRB, offers 18,000 online full text documents under 30 subject resource guides.

Tax Policy Center, Brookings Institution; This vast, professionally arranged site provides a comprehensive overview of US tax policy for the public, government officials, journalists, and researchers.

World Bank Open Data, The World Bank's new Open Data initiative for the first time allows Web access to the bank's vast collection of economic, social, population, and development data with no restrictions and at no cost. Tabs and links provide access to the data by county, topic, and indicator, and to the data catalog. Users can select a country from a list of more than 200 entries and view/download a statistical profile, which contains several years of data for selected indicators.