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Related Links: Social Policy
 
http://www.aphsa.org/
This page of the American Public Human Services Association has information about and analysis of all welfare programs. It is a useful site for tracking the progress of welfare reform.

http://www.ncsl.org/
As part of its responsibility to state legislative bodies, the National Conference of State Legislatures provides assessments of changes in federal welfare law. In addition, this is a source of information on what individual states are deciding to do.

http://www.ssa.gov/
Like all other government agencies, the Social Security Administration has its own Web site, providing a broad array of information. Here employers can find out how to comply with laws governing Social Security taxation, and parents of disabled children can learn how to avoid losing SSI benefits.

http://www.hhs.gov/agencies/
This page links to the agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services, including the Food and Drug Administration, the Administration for Children and Families, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

http://www.epa.gov/
The home page of the EPA includes information on issues, organization, regulations, and even graduate fellowships offered by the agency. You can also find a guide to all major environmental protection projects in your state.

http://www.ftc.gov/
The home page of the Federal Trade Commission. It provides links similar to those at the EPA site.

http://www.fda.gov/
The Web site of the Food and Drug Administration contains information on all major areas of the agency’s work in food and drug safety, reports on current research, and pending regulations and legislation.

http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/
A wealth of data on everything that has to do with crime, including public attitudes, can be found on the interactive Web site offered by the Bureau of Justice Statistics called the Source Book of Criminal Justice Statistics.

http://www.census.gov/stat_abstract/brief.html
The national debt is a hot topic at the end of each federal fiscal year (October), as well as when national elections come around. The debt is the sum over time of each year’s deficit.

http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/search/budget97.html
Read an Economic Report of the President.

http://www.vote-smart.org/issues/
You can find further information on most of the issues discussed in this chapter at Project VoteSmart’s Web site.

http://www.nga.org/
The National Governors Association offers information on the current status of welfare reform among the various states.

http://www.fbi.gov
The Federal Bureau of Investigation offers information about crime rates at its Web site.

http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp
To find more information on poverty in the United States and the latest research on this topic, go to the site of the Institute for Research on Poverty.