Some Sources For WR227 (Eva Payne)

For class topics: the list below represents some information sources that is not available in magazines and newspapers.

• For Credit Issues
  • Safe Credit Card Standards
  • Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit of the Committee of Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, March 13, 2008
  • Hearing Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, March 31, 2009
  • Bankrate.com (Compare credit cards)
  • HR 111-088, House Report on Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act of 2009 (was H.R. 627)
  • PL 111-24, Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act of 2009
  • Summary of Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act (Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs)
    
    
• For Student Issues
  • Tables from Trends in Undergraduate Borrowing II
  • How Undergraduate Students Use Credit Cards
  • Characteristics of the Employed/Unemployed
  • Industry Information (Statistics on industries with fastest-growing employment, etc.)
  • Federal Student Aid Repayment Plans and Calculators
  • Congressional testimony on student loans
    
    
• For Current Housing Issue
  • Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan, Hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs
  • Housing Vacancies and Homeownership
  • Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
  • Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate
  • Making Home Affordable (U.S. program site)
  • Oregon Foreclosure Resources (Oregon Division of Finance and Corporate Securities)
    
    
• Health Care
  • Initial National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research
  • Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP)
  • U.S. Health Insurance Coverage Statistics from CDC
  • Examining the Single-Payer Health Care Option (Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Hearing)
  • Health Insurance: Most College Students... (GAO report)
  • SAMHSA's Weekly Financing News Pulse Government E-newsletter
  • Congressional testimony on health care
  • Article in Pain Physician (All right, this one's in a journal, I admit.)
    
    

For more Congressional hearings, see the Gale database, General Onefile, which includes Congressional Hearing Transcript Database and Political/Congressional Transcript Wire Newswire.

Of course, magazines and newspapers are an excellent source of information as well. Don't forget:

• Business And Company Resource Center [Gale]
• LexisNexis Academic (news search)
• Education databases for student-related topics
  • Educator's Reference Complete [Gale]
  • Education Full Text
  • Note: ERIC is not a good choice, as it is slower to publish.

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