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Government Organizations
Library of Congress Congressional Internet Services: links to U.S. congressional offices and support agencies. Abbreviations and Acronyms of the Federal Government: This site, which is maintained by Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis, links directly to the agencies or programs listed.
New York State Home Page: links to state agencies and web-based resources.
Federal Executive Agencies
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 | Bureau of the Census: The Bureau of the Census states that its mission is to be the preeminent collector and provider of timely, relevant, and quality data about the people and economy of the United States. Its goal is to provide the best mix of timeliness, relevancy, quality, and cost for the data it collects and services it provides. Through the Census website you can access databases on the U. S. population. |
| Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA): The mission of BEA is to produce and disseminate accurate, timely, relevant, and cost-effective economic accounts statistics that provide government, businesses, households, and individuals with a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of economic activity. BEA's national, regional, and international economic accounts present basic information on such key issues as U.S. economic growth, regional economic development, and the Nation's position in the world economy. |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the federal government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. BLS seeks to produce impartial, timely, and accurate data relevant to the needs of its users and to the social and economic conditions of the Nation, its workers, its workplaces, and the workers' families. |
| Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), administers Medicare, Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). CMS provides health insurance for over 74 million Americans through Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP. The CMS website provides information about the programs it administers as well as a webpage for researchers to provide access to information related to health statistics and and health care financing data. |
| Office of Management and Budget (OMB): OMB's predominant mission is to assist the President in overseeing the preparation of the Federal budget and to supervise its administration in Executive Branch agencies. In helping to formulate the President's spending plans, OMB evaluates the effectiveness of agency programs, policies, and procedures, assesses competing funding demands among agencies, and sets funding priorities. OMB ensures that agency reports, rules, testimony, and proposed legislation are consistent with the President's budget and with Administration policies. The President's budget documents and Statements of Administration Policy on pending legislation can be accessed through the OMB website. |
| Office of Tax Policy: The Office of Tax Policy is located in the Department of the Treasury. it assists with the development of tax policy and provides official Treasury estimates of government receipts for the President's budget, establishes policy criteria and coordinates with the Internal Revenue Service to implement and administer the Internal Revenue Code, negotiates tax treaties for the United States and represents the United States in meetings and work of multilateral organizations dealing with tax policy matters; and provides economic and legal policy analysis for domestic and international tax policy decisions. |
| Social Security Administration (SSA): The Social Security Administration administers Social Security programs. Its website provides information for employers, workers, and beneficiaries. The Social Security Administration's Office of Policy is responsible for conducting policy analysis, research and evaluation to produce useful, objective, credible and timely data and policy options. Its Web page is a major vehicle for this information dissemination. The Office of the Chief Actuary is responsible for the overall review of the OASDI program's balance between future benefit liabilities and future tax collections. It estimates the financial impact of the many proposals to change the Social Security program. |
| The White House: The official White House Web site provides information about the President's policies and activities and links to executive, legislative and judicial Web sites. The Economic Statistics Briefing Room provides easy access to current Federal economic indicators. It provides links to information produced by a number of Federal agencies. All of the information included in the Economic Statistics Briefing Room is maintained and updated by the statistical units of those agencies. All the estimates for the indicators presented in the Federal Statistics Briefing Rooms are the most currently available values. |
| Congressional Budget Office (CBO): The mission of the Congressional Budget Office is to provide the Congress with the objective, timely, nonpartisan analyses needed for economic and budget decisions and with the information and estimates required for the Congressional budget process. CBO reports, budget projections, testimony, and cost estimates for legislation are accessible on the site. |
| General Accounting Office (GAO): The General Accounting Office is the investigative arm of Congress. GAO exists to support the Congress in meeting its Constitutional responsibilities and to help improve the performance and accountability of the federal government for the American people. GAO examines the use of public funds, evaluates federal programs and activities, and provides analyses, options, recommendations, and other assistance to help the Congress make effective oversight, policy, and funding decisions. GAO reports and testimony are available through the site. |
| House Democratic Policy Committee: Provides information from House Democratic leadership about members and issues. |
| House Republican Policy Committee: Provides information from House Republican leadership about members and issues. |
| Senate Democratic Policy Committee: Provides information from the Senate Democratic leadership about members and issues. |
| Senate Republican Policy Committee: Provides information from the Senate Republican leadership about members and issues. |
| THOMAS (Library of Congress): The Library of Congress brought the THOMAS World Wide Web system online in January 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. THOMAS allows you to search bills, by topic, bill number, or title. You can search through and read the text of the Congressional Record for the 101st through the 107th Congresses. You can also search and find committee reports by topic or committee name. THOMAS contains links to congressional and executive branch websites. |
| U.S. House of Representatives: The United State House of Representatives website links to Members' home pages, the web pages of House committees and other organizations, provides information on House legislative activities and hearing schedules, and lists roll call votes. |
| U.S. Senate: The United States Senate website links to Senators' and committee home pages, includes information about the Senate's legislative activities, schedules, and history, and lists roll call votes. |
| The Blue Dog Coalition: The Blue Dog Coalition is compose of 32 conservative and moderate Democrats. The Coalition was formed in the 104th Congress as a policy-oriented group to give moderate and conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives a common sense, bridge-building voice within the institution. The Coalition has been particularly active on fiscal issues, relentlessly pursuing a balanced budget and then protecting that achievement from politically popular "raids" on the budget. The Coalition also played a significant role in welfare reforms signed into law in recent years. |
| Federal Reserve System Board of Governors: The Fed, as the Board of Governors is known, was founded by Congress in 1913 to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. Today the Federal Reserve's duties fall into four general areas: (1) conducting the nation's monetary policy; (2) supervising and regulating banking institutions and protecting the credit rights of consumers; (3) maintaining the stability of the financial system; and (4) providing certain financial services to the U.S. government, the public, financial institutions, and foreign official institutions. | ||||||||||||
| President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security: The President established the Commission on May 2, 2001. He asked it to make recommendations to modernize and restore fiscal soundness to Social Security, using six guiding principles:
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| New York State Assembly: The New York State Legislature, which is older than the U.S. Congress, was established as a law-making body in 1777. The Legislature is comprised of two houses, the Assembly and the Senate, both of which have co-equal powers. These two houses have the power to make all laws in all areas of the state except those that have been reserved to the federal government or to the people. |
| New York State Senate: The New York Senate, under the State's first Constitution which was adopted in 1777, consisted of 24 members, elected from and by the freeholders of the state possessing one hundred pounds over and above all indebtedness. Today the Senate has 61 members. Besides passing upon legislative proposals and constitutional amendments, the Senate confirms or rejects nominations made by the Governor for the filling of certain State and judicial offices. |
| New York State Comptroller: The State Comptroller audits state agencies, public authorities, and all local governments in New York State, including New York City; serves as the sole trustee of the state employees' Common Retirement Fund; and serves as the state's chief financial officer. |
| New York State Division of the Budget: The Division of the Budget is an agency within the Executive Department of New York State government. The Division officially came into existence on January 1, 1927. following two constitutional reforms that made the Governor the chief architect of the State's budget, accountable for the development and administration of the legislatively-approved budget, and led to the evolution of a strong centralized Budget Division. The Division derives its broad authority from Article 8 of the Executive Law, which authorizes the Director of the Budget to assist the Governor with respect to the: "... formulation of the budget and the correlating and revising of estimates and requests for appropriations of the civil departments..." and "... investigation, supervision and coordination of the expenditures and other fiscal operations of such department[s]..." |
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City Comptroller: The New York City Comptroller, an independently elected official, is the Chief Financial Officer of the City of New York. The mission of the office is to ensure the financial health of New York City by advising the Mayor, the City Council, and the public of the City's financial condition. The Comptroller also makes recommendations on City programs and operations, fiscal policies, and financial transactions. In addition, the Comptroller manages over $85 billion in pension funds, performs budgetary analysis, audits city agencies, registers proposed contracts, oversees budget authorization, determines credit needs, terms and conditions, prepares warrants for payment and issues and sells City obligations. |
| Independent Budget Office: The mission of the Independent Budget Office (IBO) is to provide non-partisan budgetary, economic, and policy analysis for the residents of New York City and their elected officials, and to increase New Yorkers' understanding of and participation in the budget process. In 1989, voters in New York City approved a sweeping revision of the City Charter, including the creation of this new budget office separate from the Mayor's budget office and all other agencies in the city government. However, IBO was not funded and did not begin work until early 1996. |
| City Council: The New York City Council is the legislative branch of city government. Council Members are elected every four years and each represents a district of approximately 139,000 people. There are 51 members in the City Council, an increase from 35 following the redrawing of district lines in 1991. The Council is an equal partner with the Mayor in the governing of New York City. The Council monitors the operation and performance of city agencies. It has sole responsibility for analyzing and approving the city's budget and spending priorities and decision-making powers over major land use issues. It is the city's lawmaking body. |
| New York State Comptroller--New York City Oversight: The State comptroller supervises local fiscal operations. The comptroller's office analyzes and monitors the City's budget and agencies, conduct audits of city agencies to determine whether programs achieve their established goals, and assists the New York State Financial Control Board and the Municipal Assistance Corporation. |
| Office of Management and Budget: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), established in 1933 as the Bureau of the Budget and renamed in 1976, is responsible for assisting the Mayor in developing and implementing the City's budget, and for advising the Mayor on policy affecting the City's fiscal stability and the effectiveness of City services. |
Non-Governmental Research and Advocacy Organizations | American Academy of Actuaries: The American Academy of Actuaries is the public policy organization for actuaries of all specialties within the United States. The Academy is nonpartisan and assists the public policy process through the presentation of clear actuarial analysis. The Academy regularly prepares testimony for Congress, provides information to federal elected officials and congressional staff, comments on proposed federal regulations, and works closely with state officials on issues related to insurance. The site includes analyses of Social Security issues and an interactive game that allows you to explore the actuarial implications of various reform approaches. |
| AARP Public Policy Institute: The Public Policy Institute (PPI), created in 1985, is part of the Research Group at the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). The PPI's mission is primarily two-fold: (1) to inform the development of AARP's policy positions through the conduct of objective policy research and analysis, and (2) to contribute to public debate and discussion about issues of importance to mid-life and older persons. Using both qualitative and quantitative research techniques, PPI staff conduct, commission, and sponsor policy research in the broad areas of health, economics, long-term care (LTC), and consumer issues at both the federal and state levels. |
| American Enterprise Institute (AEI): The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of freedom— government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy and national defense— scholarly research, open debate, and publications. Founded in 1943 and located in Washington, D.C., AEI is one of America's largest and most respected "think tanks." AEI research covers economics and trade; social welfare; government tax, spending, regulatory, and legal policies; U.S. politics; international affairs; and U.S. defense and foreign policies. |
| The Brookings Institution: In its research, The Brookings Institution functions as an independent analyst and critic, committed to publishing its findings for the information of the public. In its conferences and activities, it serves as a bridge between scholarship and public policy, bringing new knowledge to the attention of decisionmakers and affording scholars a better insight into public policy issues. Bookings activities focus on economic and fiscal policy, governmental studies, and foreign and defense policy. |
| The CATO Institute: Founded in 1977, the Cato Institute is a nonpartisan public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Institute is named for Cato's Letters, libertarian pamphlets that helped lay the philosophical foundation for the American Revolution. The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of more options that are consistent with the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government. CATO concentrates on a wide range of economic, foreign policy, and domestic policy issues. |
| Center for Retirement Research: The goals of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College are to promote research on retirement issues, to transmit new findings to the policy community and the public, to help train new scholars, and to broaden access to valuable data sources. The Boston Center, which is part of a consortium that includes a parallel center at the University of Michigan, was established in 1998 through a 5-year $5.25 million grant from the Social Security Administration. |
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Founded in 1981, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has emerged over the past two decades as one of the leading organizations in the country working on fiscal policy issues and issues affecting low- and moderate-income families and individuals. The Center specializes in research and analysis oriented toward policy decisions that policymakers face at both federal and state levels. The Center examines data and research findings and produces analyses designed to be accessible to public officials, other non-profit organizations, and the media. |
| Citizens Against Government Waste: Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) is a private, non-partisan, non-profit organization representing more than one million members and supporters nationwide. CAGW's mission is to eliminate the waste, mismanagement, and inefficiency in the federal government. Founded in 1984 by the late industrialist J. Peter Grace and syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, CAGW is the legacy of the President’s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, also known as the Grace Commission. |
| Citizens for Tax Justice: Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ), founded in 1979, is a 501 (c)(4) public interest research and advocacy organization focusing on federal, state and local tax policies and their impact upon our nation. CTJ's mission is to give ordinary people a greater voice in the development of tax laws. Against the armies of special interest lobbyists for corporations and the wealthy, CTJ fights for: fair taxes for middle and low-income families; requiring the wealthy to pay their fair share; closing corporate tax loopholes; adequately funding important government services; reducing the federal debt; taxation that minimizes distortion of economic markets. |
| Committee for Economic Development (CED): The Committee for Economic Development (CED) is an independent, nonpartisan organization of business and education leaders dedicated to policy research on the major economic and social issues of our time and the implementation of its recommendations by the public and private sectors. CED is proud of its reputation as a group of business and education leaders committed to improving the growth and productivity of the U.S. economy, a freer global trading system, and greater opportunity for all Americans. Current projects include health care, e-commerce, education, immigration, and globalization and international trade. |
| Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) was formed in 1983 to address the need for citizens who are better informed on fiscal and budget issue. It is a non-profit, bipartisan organization that produces and distributes a variety of educational programs and materials. Its signature contribution to the budget debate is An Exercise in Hard Choices. |
| The Commonwealth Fund: The Commonwealth Fund is a private nonpartisan foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy. The Fund is dedicated to helping people become more informed about their health care, and improving care for vulnerable populations such as children, elderly people, low-income families, minority Americans, and the uninsured. |
| The Concord Coalition: In September 1992, a new nonpartisan, grassroots movement was launched with the audacious goal of changing the political climate in the United States. Its mission: to challenge national office holders to make the tough political choices required to balance the federal budget and keep it in balance. The Concord Coalition focuses on cultivating grassroots activism. It provides information, analyses, and commentary on issues involving the federal budget, Social Security reform, and Medicare reform. |
| Economic Policy Institute (EPI): The mission of the Economic Policy Institute is to provide high-quality research and education in order to promote a prosperous, fair, and sustainable economy. The Institute stresses real world analysis and a concern for the living standards of working people, and it makes its findings accessible to the general public, the media, and policy makers. EPI conducts original research on economic issues, makes policy recommendations based on its findings, and disseminates its work to the appropriate audiences. Its research is focused on five main economic areas: living standards/labor markets; government and the economy; globalization and trade; politics and public opinion; and sustainable economics. |
| Electronic Policy Network: see Moving Ideas. |
| Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI): Established in 1978, the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) is the only nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed exclusively to data dissemination, policy research, and education on economic security and employee benefits. The Institute's mission is to advance the public's, the media's and policymakers' knowledge and understanding of employee benefits and their importance to our nation's economy. Two of EBRI's key research areas are retirement security (Social Security and pensions) and health security (health insurance coverage). |
| Health Affairs: Now approaching its twentieth anniversary, Health Affairs is a leading health policy journal. Many of its articles are available to non-subscribers without charge from its web page. Health Affairs is published by Project Hope (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere), an independent non-profit organization. The primary goal of Project HOPE is the sustainable improvement of health conditions through education, in partnerships with communities, local ministries of health, universities, and hospitals. The Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs (CHA) was founded in 1981, is a nonprofit health policy research organization that provides objective research and policy analysis on both United States and foreign health systems. |
| Health Care Financing Review: The Health Care Financing Review is the subscription journal of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Many of the Review's recent articles can be accessed through its web page. The Review seeks to contribute to an improved understanding of the Medicare and Medicaid programs and the U.S health care system by presenting information and analyses on a broad range of health care financing and delivery issues. The Review highlights the results of policy-relevant research and provides a forum for a broad range of viewpoints to stimulate discussion among a diverse audience that includes policymakers, planners, administrators, insurers, researchers, and health care providers. The Review appears quarterly, with an additonal statistical supplement issue every year. |
| Heritage Foundation: Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute - a think tank -whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. The Heritage Foundation's research covers a wide range of domestic and international economic and social policy issues. |
| Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is an independent philanthropy focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. The Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public. It provides information analysis on a broad range of policy issues, emphasizing those that most affect low-income and vulnerable populations. |
| Moving Ideas: Moving Ideas is the online magazine of The Policy Action Network (PAN), formerly the Electronic Policy Network (EPN). PAN is dedicated to explaining and popularizing complex policy ideas to a broader audience. Our goal is to improve collaboration and dialogue between policy and grassroots organizations, and to promote their work to journalists and legislators. Moving Ideas posts the best ideas and resources from leading progressive research and advocacy institutions, as well as promotes high-quality websites and publishes original content. Like EPN, Moving Ideas draws from the research of a network of more than 100 member organizations, and provides timely information and leading ideas about the policies and politics that drive the nation's agenda. |
| National Academy on an Aging Society: The National Academy on an Aging Society is a Washington-based non-partisan, policy institute that fosters critical thinking about the implications of an aging society. The Academy studies the impact of demographic changes on public and private institutions and families of all ages. To encourage innovative and responsible thinking, the Academy conducts and synthesizes research on a broad range of topics related to income and health security and conveys the findings to policy makers. Thus, the Academy serves as an information broker on issues often associated with the Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid programs. Particular topics that have been the focus of Academy projects also include changes in the labor market, employer-provided health and pension benefits, the health care market, and access to health and long-term care. |
| National Academy of Social Insurance: The National Academy of Social Insurance is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization made up of the nation's leading experts on social insurance. Its mission is to promote understanding and informed policymaking on social insurance and related programs through research, public education, training, and the open exchange of ideas. Social insurance encompasses broad-based systems for insuring workers and their families against economic insecurity caused by loss of income from work and the cost of health care. NASI's scope covers social insurance such as Social Security; Medicare; workers' compensation; and unemployment insurance, related public assistance, and private employee benefits. |
| National Center for Policy Analysis: The National Center of Policy Analysis (NCPA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization, established in 1983. The NCPA's goal is to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. Topics include reforms in health care, taxes, Social Security, welfare, criminal justice, education and environmental regulation. |
| The National Governors' Association: The National Governors Association (NGA) is the collective voice of the nation's governors and one of Washington, D.C.'s, most respected public policy organizations. NGA provides governors and their senior staff members with services that range from representing states on Capitol Hill and before the Administration on key federal issues to developing policy reports on innovative state programs and hosting networking seminars for state government executive branch officials. The NGA's Center for Best Practices helps Governors and their key policy staff develop and implement innovative solutions to governance and policy challenges facing them in their states. |
| National Association of State Budget Officials: The National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO) has served as the professional membership organization for state finance officers for over fifty years. NASBO is the instrument through which the states collectively advance state budget practices. As the chief financial advisors to our nation’s governors, NASBO members are active participants in the public policy discussions at the state level. The major functions of the organization consist of research, policy development, education, training, and technical assistance. NASBO is an independent professional and educational association and is also an affiliate of the National Governors’ Association. |
| The National Health Policy Forum: The National Health Policy Forum (NHPF) is a nonpartisan education and information exchange program primarily serving federal legislative and executive agency staff working in health care and related areas. Its goal is to foster more informed government decision making by promoting broader interaction among opinion leaders in the public and the private sectors. |
| The Tax Foundation: The Tax Foundation is a nonpartisan educational organization that was founded in 1937. It analyzes data from all levels of government; explores the effect of tax policy on businesses and individuals alike; and channels this information to the general public. In this way, the Tax Foundation serves as a national clearinghouse, providing Americans with a better understanding of their tax system and the effects of tax policy. |
| Third Millennium: Third Millennium is a national, non-partisan, non-profit organization launched by young adults (ages 18-34) to offer solutions to long-term problems facing the United States. Its goal is to promote sustainable reform of Social Security and Medicare by informing and mobilizing the nation's opinion leaders. |
| The Urban Institute: The Urban Institute is a nonprofit policy research organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1968. The Institute's goals are to sharpen thinking about society's problems and efforts to solve them, improve government decisions and their implementation, and increase citizens' awareness about important public choices. Crime and criminal justice, health care, taxes, Medicare and Social Security, public finance and management, education, welfare, immigration, homelessness, the job market, poverty, teen pregnancy and responsible parenting, non-profit organizations and philanthropy, housing, the shift of safety net programs from Washington to the states, and community development—all are the subjects of the Institute's work. Projects often explore linkages—between education and the job market, for example, or between immigration and tax burdens. |
| Citizen's Budget Commission: The Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit civic organization devoted to influencing constructive change in the finances and services of New York City and New York State government. CBC was founded in 1932, a time of great fiscal crisis, when a group of distinguished civic leaders decided to start a research organization that would analyze the City's finances, evaluate the management of City government, report on these matters to its members, and recommend improvements to municipal officials. In 1984 CBC expanded this analysis to the fiscal affairs of State government. |
| Fiscal Policy Institute: The Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) is a nonpartisan research and education organization that focuses on the broad range of tax, budget, economic and related public policy issues that affect the quality of life and the economic well-being of New York State residents. Founded in 1991, FPI's work is intended to further the development and implementation of public policies that create a strong economy in which prosperity is broadly shared by all New Yorkers. |
| The Gotham Gazette: The Gotham Gazette is published each weekday by the Citizens Union Foundation of the City of New York. It functions as four publications in one -- a daily digest of news about New York City; a news operation in itself; a policy magazine; and a reference tool for students and serious researchers. Gotham Gazette as a whole attempts to explain all the most important issues facing New York and New Yorkers. But we also have three subsites with more specific focus. Searchlight is a guide to New York City government and politics. Rebuilding NYC is a handbook of news, opinion and debate over the efforts to recover from the events of September 11, 2001. The Citizen is a selection of articles from New York's immigrant/ethnic press, translated into English from some three dozen languages. |
| The Manhattan Institute: For 25 years, the Manhattan Institute has been an important force in shaping American political culture. It has supported and publicized research on the era’s most challenging public policy issues: taxes, welfare, crime, the legal system, urban life, race, education, and many other topics. It has won new respect for market-oriented policies and helped make reform a reality. The Manhattan Institute publishes a quarterly journal of urban affairs-- City Journal. |
| Public Policy Institute of New York State: Founded in 1981, The Public Policy Institute is a research and educational organization whose purpose is to formulate and promote public policies that will restore New York's economic competitiveness. The Institute accomplishes this mission by conducting timely, in-depth research addressing key state policy issues. The Institute is affiliated with The Business Council of New York State, Inc. The web site provides statistics related to New York's economy. |
| New York Public Interest Research Group: The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) is New York State's largest consumer, environmental and government reform organization. We are a nonpartisan, not-for-profit group established to effect policy reforms while training students and other New Yorkers to be advocates. |
| International Monetary Fund: The IMF is an international organization of 183 member countries, established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment. |
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: The OECD is an international organisation helping governments tackle the economic, social and governance challenges of a globalised economy. The OECD groups 30 member countries sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy. With active relationships with some 70 other countries, NGOs and civil society, it has a global reach. Best known for its publications and its statistics, its work covers economic and social issues from macroeconomics, to trade, education, development and science and innovation. |
| World Bank: Founded in
1944, the World Bank Group is one of the world's largest sources of
development assistance. The Bank, which provided US$17.3 billion in loans to
its client countries in fiscal year 2001, is now working in more than 100
developing economies, bringing a mix of finance and ideas to improve living
standards and eliminate the worst forms of poverty. The World Bank is owned
by more than 180 member countries whose views and interests are represented
by a Board of Governors and a Washington-based Board of Directors. Member
countries are shareholders who carry ultimate decision-making power in the
World Bank. |
Interesting
Individual Websites
| Nouriel Roubini's Global Macroeconomic and Financial Policy Site: Nouriel Roubini is an economics professor, Stern School of Business, New York University. The site is primarily devoted to international economic and finance, but it includes a great section on the U.S. budget and tax debate. |
| NYFiscalwatch.com: Site maintained by E.J. McMahon, a senior fellow for Tax and Budgetary Studies, at the Center for Civic Innovation at the Manhattan Institute. NYFiscalwatch focuses on the "tax and spend trends in the Empire State and the Big Apple." |
| Brad DeLongs's Website: Brad DeLong is an economic professor, University of California at Berkeley, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury (1993-95). The site contains links related o international and domestic economic issues. |
Economic Education Websites
| National Council for Economics Education: NCEE is a nonprofit partnership of leaders in education, business and labor devoted to helping youngsters learn to think, to choose and to function in a changing global economy. It was founded in 1949, and today it is the premier source of teacher training and materials used to instill an understanding of economic principles for grades kindergarten through twelve. It is a nationwide network of state councils and over 260 university-based centers called EconomicsAmerica. NCEE is also an international economics training initiative called EconomicsInternational, which carries it market principles to the world. |
| WebEc: WebEc is an effort to categorize free information in economics on the WWW. The original WebEc in Finland is mirrored in Japan, UK and USA. WebEc is awarded, searchable and open for additions and comments. It contains the List of Economics Journals. WebEc is a part of the NetEc group that collaborates with the EconWPA, IER, RFE, EDIRC and IDEAS. |
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