Government Documents on Public Administration: U.S. Government Internet

Internet Resources

Increasing amounts of government information are on the Internet. The Purdue Libraries Documents Department homepage is a good starting point. GovInfo contains major federal legislative, legal, and regulatory information sources such as congressional bills, the Code of Federal Regulations, and the U.S. Code. Examples of other federal government public administration Internet resources include:

• HathiTrust Catalog (Selected historic policymaking resources from various research libraries)
• Heritage Foundation Welfare and Welfare Spending(Non-governmental)
• Robert Rector (Noted social policy scholar from the Heritage Foundation: Non-governmental)
• Brookings Institute Social Policy Resources: Non-governmental)Ron Haskins-Brookings social policy scholar)
• USDA Income Eligibility Guidelines (For school lunch program)
• Census Bureau
• Census Bureau Poverty Resources
• Census Bureau American Factfinder
• Dept. of Health & Human Services Poverty Guidelines
• Dept. of Housing & Urban Development
• Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations Archive(Courtesy-University of North Texas Library)
• Bureau of Labor Statistics (Contains price, workforce, employment/unemployment. productivity, and cost of living information.)
• Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking (2017)
• Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
• General Services Administration
• Office of Government Ethics
• Office of Management & Budget & OMB& Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)
• Payment Accuracy  (Interagency government site striving to see federal funds reach correct recipients, prevent improper payments, and reduce waste, fraud, and abuse.
• Expectmore.gov
• Compilation of Presidential Documents
• Oversight.gov (Access to federal agency inspector general websites evaluating the management performance of government programs.)
• National Academy of Public Administration
• USA Facts
• Your Guide to America's Finances Visualizations of U.S. Govt. spending)