Research 2024

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Resources on the Hill

Library of Congress

CRS

• For Hill staff
• For everybody else

General Public Policy and Finance

• Data.gov
• Census
• Congressional Budget Office
• Joint Committee on Taxation
• Joint Economic Committee
• Another site for CRS reports
• Government Accountability Office
• Earmarks and a guide for congressional offices
• Tracking Federal Funds

Foreign Policy, National Security, Human Rights

• Freedom House country reports
• CIA World Factbook

Education

• NCES -- data tables
• Census data

Crime

• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Prisoner statistics
• Crime data explorer
• Gun Violence Archive
  GW Project on Extremism

Health

• Local data
• HealthData.gov
• Kaiser Family Foundation

The Internet Archive -- if there is a broken link to what you need, this site might help you find it.

Great stuff at Honnold Library -- which students usually overlook! 

• Nexis Uni: news sources and law journals
• Political science journals
• Dissertation abstracts (search for "California" and "redistricting" in abstracts, and you will see a couple of Rose Institute names)