Social Work: Social Work 416 Public Policies

Contains reports about current and controversial issues. Excellent for finding overviews, pros/cons and lists of key resources.

Provides overviews and pros and cons on social Issues.

Provides information on multiple sides of a current issue.

Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. It is presented by the Library of Congress (LOC) using data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, the Government Publishing Office, Congressional Budget Office, and the LOC's Congressional Research Service.

Consists of four major law library collections: Law Journal Library, Federal Register Library, Treaties and Agreements Library, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library.

(often defaults to Proquest Legislative Insight)
Comprehensive index to the U.S. Congress. Provides full-text of congressional publications including bills, laws, hearings, transcripts, regulations, political news, and analytical reports. Formerly called: LexisNexis Congressional.

Legislative history compilations of U.S. Public Laws.

A companion to ProQuest Legislative Insight, Regulatory Insight offers U.S. federal administrative law histories for individual federal statutes and Executive Orders by compiling pertinent Federal Register articles into a research-friendly work space similar to that provided in Legislative Insight.

Among other services, it also assigns cost expectation to proposed programs. Also, good to research federal programs (appropriations law, reports). Example can find some things on TANF here or some federal housing assistance.

GovInfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch.
GovInfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Shows costs of government departments, and federal awards, grants, contracts spending in states.

Library of Congress site that provides links to US States' Constituitions, Executive branches, Legislative branches, Judicial branches, Legal Guides, and General Sources

(Formerly LexisNexis Academic) Provides content from US and international magazines, journals, newspapers, television and radio broadcasts dating back mostly from the 1990s with some content from the 1970s. Also includes legal research sources and business information for US and international companies. Can sometimes find state legislation here.

Legislative issues going on in states, this is not a government site.

Blue book or Bluebook is a term often referring to an almanac or other compilation of statistics and information. It was last updated in 2015 so some links may be wrong. Also, not all states have a "Blue Book" or State encyclopedia. In these cases, efforts have been made to direct users to resources that contain at least some of the information available from a "Blue Book."

Congress.gov provides legislative information from the House and Senate of the United States Congress. This source can be used to visit similar websites for the U.S. states and territories.

Data, analyses, and historical material on the American voter, political parties, campaigns, and races and elections for Congress, the presidency, and governorships.

Business industry database with good stats and sources for many issues because of money involved in businesses that support those issues and programs.

The Migration Policy Institute is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide.
MPI provides analysis, development, and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at local, national, and international levels. It aims to meet the demand for pragmatic and thoughtful responses to the challenges and opportunities that large-scale migration, whether voluntary or forced, presents to communities and institutions in an increasingly integrated world. Not a government site.

This resource includes PAIS International and covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of a wide variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more.

The ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political and economic conditions of the United States.

Index to statistical data of all kinds from federal, state, private, and international sources. Links to full-text when available. Previously known as LexisNexis Statistical.

United States' Census information.