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Short videos that provide background information on a number of controversial issues. Selected sources accompany each video.
Independent research, recommendations, and analysis on a full range of public policy issues.
Published by the International Debate Education Association (IDEA), the Debatabase website provides background, arguments, and resources on a variety of debate topics.
Research on U.S. politics and policy; journalism and media; internet, science and technology; religion and public life; Hispanic trends; global attitudes and trends; and U.S. social and demographic trends.
Frequently cited by journalists, public officials and researchers, the independent Quinnipiac University Poll regularly conducts surveys about political races, state and national elections, and issues of public concern, such as schools, taxes, transportation, municipal services, and the environment.
Locate inmate statistics, population statistics, or staff statistics.
"Generates reliable statistics for use in law enforcement. It also provides information for students of criminal justice, researchers, the media, and the public. The program has been providing crime statistics since 1930"--website.
Gun Violence Archive (GVA) is a not for profit corporation formed in 2013 to provide free online public access to accurate information about gun-related violence in the United States.
Crowd sourced data on police violence from three databases in the U.S since 2013. Source data available in Excel format.
Data on crime, enforcement, courts and sentencing, corrections, and victims.
Find national and county level data on a variety of health and disease topics.
Run by the CDC, this has info on A-Z topics and more.
Find news, research, trends, and statistics on drug abuse and addiction in the U.S.
Find information on wages, unemployment rates, labor force demographics, consumer spending, and more.
Federal agency statistics on children and families in the US.
Explore recent poverty data provided by the US Census Bureau
Information on people, households, economic indicators, foreign trade, education, religion, and other specifics.
Create customized reports of campus crime and fire data, from the Office of Postsecondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education.
Find data on specific colleges, such as graduation rates, average annual cost, etc., as well as national data such as college enrollment rates, high school dropout rates, and more.