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Policy Resources

Pew: Fiscal & Economic Policy
The Pew Charitable Trusts "uses evidence-based, non-partisan analysis to solve today's challenges."
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 189 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world."
World Bank
"The World Bank has set two ambitious goals to push extreme poverty to no more 3 percent by 2030, and to promote shared prosperity and greater equity in the developing world."
World Trade Organization
"The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible."
U.S. Department of the Treasury - Economic Policy
Treasury is responsible for analyzing and reporting on current and prospective economic developments in the U.S. and world economies and assisting in the determination of appropriate economic policies. Treasury conducts research to assist in the formulation and articulation of public policies and positions of the Department on a wide range of microeconomic issues.

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CRS Reports are amazing!

Written by the non-partisan Congressional Research Services, these reports provide a wealth of background and current information on legislation including how specific policies changed over time. You'll find very useful information in CRS reports such as...

Legislative histories (i.e. how laws changed over time)

Citations for legislation, reports, websites, court cases, etc.

Data and graphics (i.e. charts, tables, figures) with listed sources (where they got the information).

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