"fosters a strong economy for Pennsylvania by ensuring the safety and soundness of financial institutions, encouraging capital formation, regulating financial services providers, and protecting consumers and investors." [Pennsylvania Manual]
Official U.S. government portal to millions of pages of government information and services. Browse by branch of government, agency, or topic.
Its companion site in Spanish:
The BEA is the nation's economic accountant, integrating and interpreting a variety of source data to draw a complete and consistent picture of the U.S. economy. Its economic accounts provide information on such key issues as economic growth, regional development, and the nation's position in the world economy.
The BLS is the principal fact-finding agency of the federal government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. Data are collected relating to characteristics of the labor force, consumer economics, productivity, occupational illness and injuries, and international comparisons of labor statistics.
The Census Bureau is responsible for censuses of population and housing every 10 years, censuses of economic and governmental aspects of American society every 5 years, and other surveys and projections relating to population, housing, domestic economics, and foreign trade.
a data preservation and accessibility project of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRASER’s mission is to safeguard and provide easy access to economic history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System. Find economic data as well as Federal Reserve System publications.
includes links to data releases, working papers, and other tools and guides for economics research.
Policy Resources
In addition to the policy information you'll find in the government sites above, you can use these Libraries' databases to find more information about policy analysis:
Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information
Congressional provides access to the best web resources for congressional and legislative information. This includes services available to Penn State Users only, such as Congressional Universe (1789-to date) as well as other free services that provide similar or related information such as Thomas (1993-to date) and GPO Access (1993-to date). The Guided Tour provides a step-by-step approach to congressional and legislative information for users who have never done research of this type before. Updates:Continuous