Data Resources

Blane Canada Ltd. -  www.blanecanada.com

The Brookings Institute - www.brook.edu/default.htm

Bureau of Economic Analysis - www.bea.doc.gov
  statistics that relate to business, including state & gross domestic product;
  national, state and local personal income;regional input-output multipliers; & more.
  
Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.bls.gov)
   Collects demographic & economic data relating to inflation & consumer spending;
   wages, earnings & benefits; productivity, employment & unemployment; safety
   & health; international trade; occupations.
      Consumer price indices:www.bls.gov/cpi/home.htm#tables
      Detailed explanation of the consumer price index or how to calculate constant
      dollars www.owlriver.com/pie.mhsc.org/DataPages/sd-079.htm

U.S. Census Bureau (www.census.gov) 

  American Factfinder:
      2000 Census Data:factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en
      1990 Census Data:www.census.gov/main/www/cen1990.html

    American Community Survey - current information about communities;contains
    updated economic and housing data for 47 MSAs: www.census.gov/acs/www

Community Affairs in the Federal Reserve System
  www.federalreserve.gov/CommunityAffairs/National/default.htm

Community Web Link - Greater New Orleans - www.communityweblink.org

Development Alliance - www.developmentalliance.com

EconData - www.econdata.net

Economagic - www.economagic.com 
 Links to sources of economic statistics, usually governmental, ranging from
 interest rates to weekly gasoline prices.
   www.economagic.com/beapira.htm#southeast - offers pop., per capita personal
   income & disposable personal income by census region.

Econstats - www.econstats.com

Economic Policy Institute - www.epinet.org

Economy.com - www.economy.com/default.asp

ED Pro - www.edpro.blogspot.com

ERSys.com www.ersys.com/index.htm

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - www.fdic.gov
   Regional Economic Conditions - www2.fdic.gov/recon/

Federal Reserve Bank - www.federalreserve.gov/community.htm 
 All Federal Reserve Banks have community development or community affairs
 component to their web pages. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
 is the most comprehensive FRB site concerned with rural development.
 
     Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, community development:
       www.frbatlanta.org/comm.cfm 
     Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, community development:
       www.bos.frb.org/commdev/   
     Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Consumer & Economic Development
       Research & Information Center:www.chicagofed.org/cedric/cedric_index.cfm
     Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas 
       Community affairs:www.dallasfed.org/ca/index.html 
       Economic Data for Louisiana: www.dallasfed.org/data/index.html     
     Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Center for the Study of Rural America:
       www.kc.frb.org/home/subwebs.cfm?subweb=5&menu=4
    Federal Reserve Bank of New York, community development:
       www.ny.frb.org/regional/commdev/pubs.htmll 
     Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, community affairs: 
       www.rich.frb.org/cao/
     Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco community development page:
       www.frbsf.org/community/index.html 
     Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Economic Research:
       research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

Greater New Orleans Community Data Center (GNOCDC) - www.gnocdc.org

Guidestar (database of nonprofit organizations) - www.guidestar.org

HUD User Policy Development & Research Information Service
   www.huduser.org

Knowledgeclusters - www.knowledgeclusters.com

Laboratory for Community & ED (at University of Illinois Extension)
www.communitydevelopment.uiuc.edu/toolbox

Louisiana Department of Labor: Louisiana Works www.laworks.net

Regulatory Barriers Clearinghouse www.huduser.org/rbc/index.html

USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station
www.srs.fs.usda.gov/index.htm

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