UALE Summer School for Union Women : Government & Politics

This government web site includes campaign finance reports and data (including historical campaign data), campaign finance law resources, election and voting information, and press releases.

This Web Site provides information about the work of the New York City Campaign Finance Board including the voluntary New York City Campaign Finance Program that provides public matching funds to candidates who meet the requirements of the Program, the New York City Voter Guide; and a searchable contribution database.

This is the home page of the New York State Board of Elections. Go to the "Campaign Finance" link for documents and guides to filing campaign finance disclosure forms. The "Disclosure Reports" link will take you to the database of disclosure documents by contributors and candidates.

Subtitled "Your Guide to the Money in U.S. Elections", this guide to federal campaign contributions makes it easy to track donors (by individuals and PACs), recipients, and trends (giving by industry). Although the site focuses on federal elections, some local data and links to state and local campaign finance web sites are available. OpenSecrets was created by the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-partisan, non-profit organization.

The purpose of Project Vote Smart, a "citizen's organization", is to provide voters with unbiased, accurate information about electoral candidates. The basic categories of information are: biographical information, campaign finances, issue positions, interest group ratings, voting records, and public statements.

The Congressional Budget Office is a small nonpartisan agency that produces policy analyses, cost estimates of legislation, and budget and economic projections that serve as a basis for the Congress's decisions about spending and taxes.

Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports provide Congress with both anticipatory and on-demand research and analysis to support their legislative, oversight, and representational duties. All reports adhere to the core values of CRS; they are authoritative, objective and nonpartisan. Reports range in length from several pages to more than one-hundred pages and cover the full breadth of topics of interest to Congress. This collection provides the public with access to recent research products produced by the CRS. CRS reports are timely, objective, and authoritative research and analysis for committees and Members of both the House and Senate, regardless of political party affiliation.

The U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) is where Members of Congress turn for confidential, nonpartisan research and analysis on a range of issues. A number of libraries and non-profit organizations have sought to collect as many of the released reports as possible. UNT's collection is a centralized utility that brings together these collections to search.

Policy institute for migration and refuge issues, U.S. and international.

An excellent source for finding current state legislation as well as analyses of top issues.

Public Agenda provides unbiased research that bridges the gap between American leaders and what the public really thinks about issues ranging from education to foreign policy to immigration to religion and civility in American life.

A well-organized guide to state, regional, county, municipal, town, borough, and village government web sites. (The city guides are the product of the sponsoring company.)

This nonprofit, independent web site is a resource for journalists, students, researchers and citizens interested in state-level policy issues. The site publishes state-related news on elections, crime, economy, health care, technology, taxes & budget, energy, politics and the environment daily (except for holidays). Additional reference materials includes an annual State of the States report.

A "nonpartisan economic and social policy research organization" since 1968, the Urban Institute uses its web site to disseminate research briefs and reports on policy issues, including health care, housing, welfare, work & income, economy & taxes, crime & justice. The Policy Jargon Decoder is a useful glossary of public policy terms.

MDRC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research organization based in New York City and Oakland, CA.

Mathematica is a nonpartisan research organization that conducts policy research, data collection, and data analytics, and publishes reports and articles on employment topics.

The database is a clearinghouse of workforce development research, developed by the U.S. Dept. of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (ETA). Indexed research represents a range of potential strategies that are informed by research evidence or peer expertise.

Includes search engine, agency information, press releases, fact sheets, speeches delivered by the HHS Secretary and other officials, congressional testimony from HHS officials, research, policy and administration news, contact information and links to other organizations.

The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information. It is also illegal to discriminate against a person because the person complained about discrimination, filed a charge of discrimination, or participated in an employment discrimination lawsuit.

The FLRA is an independent administrative federal agency created by Title VII of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. The Statute allows certain non-postal federal employees to organize, bargain collectively, and to participate through labor organizations of their choice in decisions affecting their working lives.

The FMCS provides arbitration and mediation services to industry, communities, and governmental agencies worldwide. Its mission is to improve labor-management relations, promote collective bargaining, and enhance organizational effectiveness.

Searchable list of government agencies, including Boards, Commissions and Committees and Independent agencies.

NIOSH is the federal agency responsible for conducting research, providing education and training, disseminating information, and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness. It is part of the CDC, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.

The National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law governing relations between unions and employers in the private sector. The statute guarantees the right of employees to organize and to bargain collectively with their employers or to refrain from all such activity.

The NMB is an agency authorized by the Railway Labor Act to promote peace in the railway and airline industries. Select Resources>Knowledge Store to browse collective bargaining agreements.

OSHA was established by the Occupational Safety and Health Act to set and enforce standards; provide training, outreach, and education; establish partnerships; and encourage continual improvement in workplace safety and health.

The OLMS of the U.S. Department of Labor administers and enforces most provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). The LMRDA promotes union democracy and financial integrity in private sector labor unions through standards for union officer elections and union trusteeships and safeguards for union assets.

Guidance for starting and running a small business. National and State information. Searchable 8(a) Contractor listing by state. Information on Women's Business Center Program. Link to more than 2,000 other business sites arranged by subject or keyword search.

The SSA has information on U.S. retirement and disability benefits. Through its Social Security Programs Throughout the World, you can do comparative analysis of income security.

Links to all 50 state labor departments.

This ALRA (Association of Labor Relations Agencies) page links to the websites of U.S. state public employee relations and mediation boards and agencies, and notes states without. The page also includes links to U.S. Federal and Canadian provincial and federal pages.

The DOL fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements.

This is the HR department for Federal employees. It provides useful guidance for managing any employees.

Amongst the OSH-related topics regulated by the EPA are pesticides, hazardous waste, asbestos, and water pollution. The web site offers basic information on these topics as well as research, databases, regulatory compliance and enforcement data, and laws, regulations, and dockets.