Public Affairs

Official portal of US government information.

Search and review current and past legislation for the United States Senate and House of Representatives. (Coverage: 1973-Present)

Download, graph and track 237,000 U.S. and international time series from 68 sources.

Homepage for the regional office of the Environmental Protection Agency, responsible for protecting and improving water quality across the Missouri-Mississippi Basin.

Helpful for finding out about state departments and organizational structure.

State Agency list compiled by the American Library Association

Online listing of Kansas Statutes, courtesy of the Kansas State Legislature.

Track bills progressing through the Kansas State Legislature.

The home of the U.S. Government's open data, with over 155,000 available datasets.

The main page of the U.S. Census with quick links to different data sets.

Provides basic scientific research on the structure and development of American society with a data-collection program designed to both monitor societal change within the United States and to compare the United States to other nations.

Mapped data relating to demographics, housing, income, crime, mortgages, health, jobs, manufacturing, supermarket access, and more. Includes data sets from over 65 public and proprietary sources. (Requires a free account to view some data)

The Pew Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The Project produces reports exploring the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life.

Since 1939, ASPA has been the nation's most respected society representing all forums in the public service arena. We are advocates for greater effectiveness in government - agents of goodwill and professionalism - publishers of democratic journalism at its very best - purveyors of progressive theory and practice and providers of global citizenship. We believe that by embracing new ideas - addressing key public service issues - and promoting change at both the local and international levels, we can enhance the quality of lives worldwide.

APPAM is dedicated to improving public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis, and education. APPAM promotes its mission through activities that include a multidisciplinary annual research conference that attracts the highest quality, research on a wide variety of important current and emerging policy and management issues, and is structured to encourage substantive interaction among participants.

The National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration is an institutional membership organization which exists to promote excellence in public service education. The membership includes U.S. university programs in public affairs, public policy, public administration and nonprofit management.