Public Policy Research Sources (SPP)

A comprehensive digital library of public policy research containing over 30,000 documents.

RAND Corporation frequently testifies in front of Congress as expert information professionals. Their testimony can be useful to understand how Congress is grappling with an issue.

Find out what datasets and tools have been added to Data.gov catalogs

Easy access to key economic indicators for the US from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Census Bureau.

A list of .gov portals provided by the Library of Congress.

Provides full-text access to CRS Reports, GAO Reports, important US policy documents, presidential directives, national strategy documents, and specialized resources such as theses and reports from universities.

This page is part of the Pepperdine Libraries Real Estate Market InfoGuide and contains many useful links helpful to data collection on housing and other aspects of real estate.

A resource for scholars, public and private sector leaders, housing practitioners and policymakers on issues that highlight housing's critical role in the economy and in communities.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) collects, analyzes and makes available data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.

Provides direct access to official documents reflecting the views of United Nations Member States by bringing together in one place documents available elsewhere.

Government made easy portal site.

Find out how tax dollars are spent.

Searches databases from the science and technology federal agencies. For a list of databases searched see http://www.science.gov/searchdbs.html.

This site is a single place to find a vast selection of EPA data sources, organized into topics such as air and water that are in easily downloadable formats. Data Finder points to data in downloadable formats to speed up environmental research. For each data source, you can see a basic overview, including the geographic scale and other contextual information, then access the data source itself.

This site include renewable energy and emissions.

EPA has set national air quality standards for six common air pollutants (also called the criteria pollutants): carbon monoxide (CO), ozone (O3), lead (Pb), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), particulate matter (PM), and sulfur dioxide (SO2),

Associated human health indicators will be included within each Report Card, and a summary Report Card that highlights major accomplishments and important current environmental topics will be published biennially.

"Environmental" section includes Agricultural Chemical Usage Reports

Nonprofit with reports and data on economic development, education, employment and income, environment, government, health, housing, immigration, infrastructure, political participation, population, public finance, social policy, transportation, and water

Links to: Proposed Regulations Under Review; Proposed Emergency Regulations Under Review; California Regulatory Notice Register; California Code of Regulations; Recent Actions Taken On Proposed Regulations; Recent Actions Taken On Proposed Emergency Regulations; Underground Regulation Petitions Under Review; Agency Links to Recently Approved Regulations

Ensures that the executive branch is implementing legislative policy in an effective manner, by analyzing the operations and finances of state government. Full-text publications are available, as well as analysis of ballot propostions from 1996.

Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Center on the States. Since 1999, it has reported and analyzed trends in state policy.