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Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Data
Tracks economic information in all 50 states, organized by region.

Bureau of Economic Analysis Online Newsroom
Created to help reporters and editors develop business and economic stories. It includes contact information for BEA subject matter experts; interactive tables, charts and graphs; and a list of links to economic indicators produced by several federal agencies.

Bureau of Labor Statistics Local Area Unemployment Data
Produces monthly and annual employment, unemployment and labor force data.

Federal Reserve’s Beige Book
Gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions through reports from bank directors and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts and other sources.

Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues
Helps non-metropolitan journalists define the agenda for their communities.

Migration study
Latest statistics from United Van Lines showing the states that attracted people and businesses in 2007.

National Governors Association
A NGA report on recent state economic development initiatives.

Statescape’s BillFinder
This database allows users to find legislation in all 50 states.

U.S. Census State and Metropolitan Area Data
Contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States at the state and metropolitan area levels.

Energy

Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency
DSIRE is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and federal incentives that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission
An organization of states which promotes conservation and efficient recovery of domestic oil and natural gas resources while protecting health, safety and the environment.

Grading the States 2005
The Government Performance Project’s analysis of how well each state is managed in four areas: money, people, infrastructure and information.

National Association Of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
NARUC members include the governmental agencies that are engaged in the regulation of utilities and carriers in the 50 states.

National Association of State Energy Officials
NASEO is a group of senior officials from state energy offices.

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
NRECA was organized to represent the national interests of cooperative electric utilities and the consumers they serve.

Natural Resources Defense Council
NRDC actively pursues litigation to support environmental protections and offers online resources related to environmental advocacy.

Renewable Fuels Association
The Renewable Fuels Association promotes policies, regulations and research supporting the ethanol industry.

Southern States Energy Board
The Southern States Energy Board is a non-profit organization created to promote economic development through innovative energy and environmental policies in 16 states.

Health

Alliance for Health Reform
This non-profit organization provides non-partisan health policy information to journalists and lawmakers. The group’s board of directors is chaired by U.S. Sen. John D. Rockefeller (D-W.V.) and U.S. Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.).

American Academy of Pediatrics
The mission of the American Academy of Pediatrics is to attain optimal physical, mental and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents and young adults.

American Hospital Association
The AHA is the national organization representing hospitals and health care networks.

Hospital Connect Search
The American Hospital Association portal brings together dozens of Web sites of organizations serving health care providers and their suppliers.Includes a “Hospital Finder” database.

American Medical Association
The AMA is a national professional organization representing doctors.

The United Health Foundation
The United Health Foundation was established by UnitedHealth in 1999 as a nonprofit, private foundation dedicated to improving health and health care. The Web site includes “America’s Health Rankings” for 2008, an analysis of national health on a state-by-state basis.

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
The ASTHO Web site provides useful information on public health policy in the states and includes links to all 50 states’ public health departments.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS is the federal agency that administers Medicare, the federal health insurance program for those 65 years and older and Medicaid, a joint state-federal program that provides health coverage for the nation’s poor and disabled.This Washington, D.C.-based think tank is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and provides information on insurance-related issues.CDF is a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group that conducts research, public education campaigns and promotes public policies relating to child health and welfare.

Center for Studying Health System Change

Children’s Defense Fund

The Council of State Governments – Health Policy
Based in Lexington, Ky., the health policy division of CSG tracks health issues across all 50 states.

Family Research Council
FRC works to promote public policies that champion marriage and family as the foundation of society. FRC is a pro-life organization that also advocates abstinence-based sex education.

Families USA
Families USA is a national, non-profit organization which advocates for high-quality, affordable health and long-term care for all Americans.

Georgetown’s Center for Children and Families
Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families focuses on finding ways to improve access to, and quality of, health care for children and families, especially for the poor and working class.

Guttmacher State Center
Guttmacher State Center is a centralized clearinghouse for state-level research and policy information on reproductive health issues, searchable by state or by subject.

Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
KCMU is a valuable resource for statistics and analysis on Medicaid, the state-federal program that provides health insurance for the low-income and disabled. In addition, Kaiser also provides a comprehensive database of state health facts online.

NAMI
NAMI, The Nation’s Voice on Mental Illnes, is a national non-profit that advocates for equitable treatment of and services for the mentally ill.

NARAL Pro-Choice America
NARAL is a national pro-choice advocacy group that works to protect women’s abortion rights and inrease womens’ access to reproductiove health information.

National Academy for State Health Policy
NASHP is a non-partisan, non-profit think tank based in Portland, Maine that provides policy analysis and health information, particularly focusing on children’s health insurance (CHIP), Medicaid, medical errors and managed care.

National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
NABP is a national professional association representing the state boards of pharmacy in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

National Conference of State Legislatures – Health Care
This Web page provides links to NCSL health policy resources and information.

National Governors Association, Center for Best Practices – Health Care
The Center is the research arm of the NGA. Its “Health and the States” Web page links to analysis of a variety of current issues and brief overviews of recent health news.

Mental Health America
Formerly The National Mental Health Association, MHA is a national nonprofit advocacy organization that addresses all aspects of mental health and mental illness.

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
PhRMA is the voice of the pharmaceutical industry and the organization that’s taking a lead role in challenging some state prescription drug programs. PhRMA recently launched a new Web site – www.innovation.org – that includes a ‘viewpoints’ section that outlines the organization’s take on a number of controversial topics.

Rural Assistance Center
Started in 2002, RAC serves as an “information portal” for rural communities and others to help them provide quality health and human services to rural residents. RAC works with states’ offices of rural health and workforce agencies.

Rutgers Center for State Health Policy
Funded by a five-year grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, focuses on research and analysis of state-level health care policies.

State Coverage Initiatives
State Coverage Initiatives (SCI) is an initiative of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that works with states to plan, execute, and maintain health insurance expansions, and improve the availability and affordability of health care coverage. This online resource from the University of Minnesota provides health policy research and analysis, including resources related to issues of health insurance coverage, data collection methods and state health policy.

State Health Access Data Assistance Center

Statescape’s BillFinder
BillFinder helps users find any bill eligible for consideration in the current calendar year using either keywords and phrases or bill numbers.

statehealthfacts.org
This online resource from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation includes state-by-state data on health topics including insurance coverage, Medicaid, SCHIP, HIV/AIDS and minority and women’s health.

Tobacco settlement funds and smoking cessation
A coalition of health care groups, led by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, concludes that only three states are devoting adequate money from the 1998 tobacco settlement toward efforts to keep children from smoking. The report includes assessments of each state.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Atlanta-based CDC provides information from the federal government relating to public health and disease management. The CDC closely monitors disease outbreaks across the states.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The HHS Web site provides news and information from the federal cabinet agency on health and social services.

Social Issues

American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU, which has offices in almost every state, defends individual civil liberties as outlined in the U.S. Constitution in the courts, state legislatures and communities.

American Public Human Services Association
APHSA is a bipartisan, non-profit organization whose members include human service agencies in all 50 states. APHSA educates Congress, the media and the public about what is happening in the states in welfare and health care reform.

Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Annie E. Casey Foundation works to foster public policies that more effectively meet the needs of disadvantaged children and families.

Center for Law and Social Policy
This national, non-profit research organization tracks social policy issues including workforce development, civil legal assistance for low-income families, child welfare, marriage policy and reproductive health.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The CBPP is a non-profit research organization that provides reports on budget and social policies that affect low-income people.

Children’s Defense Fund
CDF is a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group that conducts research, public education campaigns and promotes public policies relating to child health and welfare.

Drug Policy Alliance
The Drug Policy Alliance advocates reforming punitive drug laws.

Grading the States 2005
The Government Performance Project’s analysis of how well each state is managed in four areas: money, people, infrastructure and information.

Hudson Institute
Hudson Institute is a non-partisan policy research organization that addresses domestic and international policy issues.

Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
KCMU is a valuable resource for statistics and analysis on Medicaid, the state-federal program that provides health insurance for the low-income and disabled. In addition, Kaiser also provides a comprehensive database of state health facts online.

MDRC
This is a New York-based, nonprofit social policy research organization focused on measuring the effectiveness of federal and state welfare policies to improve the independence and wellbeing of low-income families.

Marijuana Policy Project
MPP is a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group that works to decriminalize penalties for marijuana use, with a particular emphasis on making it medically available to sick people who have the approval of their doctors.

NAMI
NAMI, The Nation’s Voice on Mental Illnes, is a national non-profit that advocates for equitable treatment of and services for the mentally ill.

NARAL Pro-Choice America
NARAL is a national pro-choice advocacy group that works to protect women’s abortion rights and inrease womens’ access to reproductiove health information.

National Center for Children in Poverty
NCCP is a non-partisan research and policy organization at Columbia University that tries to develop strategies to prevent child poverty and better the lives of low-income children.

National Mental Health Association
The National Mental Health Association is a national nonprofit advocacy organization that addresses all aspects of mental health and mental illness.

National Right to Life Committee
The National Right to Life Committee offers information on the pro-life movment and issues including abortion, euthanasia and infanticide.

Southern Poverty Law Center
Based in Montgomery, Ala., the Southern Poverty Law Center promotes tolerance education programs and its legal department files class action civil rights cases on behalf of vulnerable and victimized populations.

U.S. Administration for Children and Families
This federal agency is a subdivision of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ACF oversees federal programs that promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals and communities.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The HHS Web site provides news and information from the federal cabinet agency on health and social services.

Urban Institute
The Urban Institute is a nonprofit nonpartisan policy research and educational organization established to examine the social, economic, and governance problems facing the nation, including low-income housing and welfare.

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