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 Poverty Resources |
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)(NEW) |
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board |
General Services Administration |
Internet for Federal Inspectors General (IgNet) |
Office of Government Ethics |
Office of Management & Budget & OMB Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) |
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 Your Guide to America's Finances (Visualizations of U.S. Govt. spending) |