General links
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91 million individuals hold mutual fund shares.  |
| U.S. Mental Health and Substance Abuse Statistics |
| National Center for Education Statistics: Condition of Education |
| American Civil Liberties Union: Destroy America By Defending the Bill of Rights |
| National Organization for Women: Defending Abortion and Homosexuality |
| Sierra Club: Hug a Tree and Save a Whale for the Democratic Party |
| Illegal Immigrants: Official Estimates |
| Center for Immigration Studies: Current Numbers |
| Chinese Astrology and the Stock Market |
| Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street: A Frugal Women's Museum |
| John 'Bet-a-Million' Gates, legendary speculator and financier |
| The R. N. Elliott Story |
| William D. Gann, stock speculator and believer in 'vibrations'. |
| Understanding and Controlling Your Finances: Frugality |
| Stock Market Crash of 1929 |
| Benjamin Graham gave 10 lectures at the New York Institute of Finance. |
Mutual fund shareholder behavior during periods of market volatility.  |
| Retirement savings falling far short. |
| 'On Living Too Long', Walter Savage Landor |
| Baby Boomers envision their retirement. |
| Retirement prospects of the Baby Boomers. |
| Baby Boomers face uncertainty as to retirement income. |
| Cato Institute: Social Security & Baby Boomers |
| America's Lifeline Online: Animation Sequences of Graphs |
| Longevity versus retirement age |
| Metropolitan Life: Baby Boomers in 2003 |
| Do Baby Boomers Save, and If So, For What? |
| Boomer's Time Bomb: Stocks for Retirement Has a Fatal Flaw |
| Baby Boomers Retirement Prospects: An Overview |
| The Impact of Social Security and Medicare on the Federal Budget |
| Tax Policy for Pensions and Other Retirement Savings |
| Age Dependent Portfolio Selection |
| When it comes to college funding, planners need to go back to school. |
| Goldman Sachs recommends against dividend-based investing. |
| Hedge Funds: What Do We Really Know? |
| One Reason For the Bull Market: Stocks Are More Scarce. |
| Common Stock Legend: Are Stocks the Best Long Term Investment? |
| TIAA-CREF Equity Managers: The Common Stock Legend is Alive and Well. |
| The Common Stock Legend: Stocks or Mutual Funds for Sally and Matt? |
| Wages up for well-off, but not for others. |
| Home ownership rates: U.S. |
| Household Debt Service and Financial Obligations Ratios |
| Investors wake up to hedge funds |
| Home Equity, Wealth, and Financial Assets of U.S. Households in 1995 |
| Heritage Foundation: The Effects of Broken Families on Future Prosperity |
| Divorce Online: Faster, Cheaper, and Lawyer-Free |
| Unmarried Mothers: A Bull Market |
| Divorce Rate Statistics |
| U.S. Census Bureau: Poverty |
| Policy Review Online: Home Alone America |
| Safety Guide for Latch Key Kids |
| Parents Without Partners: Facts About Single Parent Families |
| University of Delaware: Research Guide to Family Statistics |
| WSJ: A Nation Divided? |
| Business Week: Governing a Divided Nation |
| 'A Nation Divided - The Role of Ideology in Contemporary American Politics' |
| The Harris Poll: Looking Forward to 2020 |
| The Rise of Relativism and the Decline of Virtue and Freedom in America |
| American Atheists: Religion has nothing to do with ethics and morals. |
| CMRI: Decline in Catholic Faith since Vatican II |
| Leadership U: State Education and the Decline in Morality |
| NCPA: Crime and Punishment in America: 1999 |
| Ralph Nader: Nurturing Consumerism |
| The John Birch Society |
| Unmarried America: 'Cooking for One' |
| Journal of Social History: Why America Stopped Voting |
| The 80s Server: Children of the Eighties |
| CATO Institute: A National ID System: Big Brother's Solution to Illegal Immigration |
Specific Links: Households and Non Profit Organizations
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| Survey of Current Business |
| Survey of Consumer Finances |
| Statistics on Income |
| Monthly Statement of Public Debt |
| Federal Reserve Board's Monthly Release G.19 Consumer Credit. |
| University of Michigan Documents Center (Business and Industry) |
| Livingston Survey of Economists Forecasts |
| University of Michigan: Survey of Consumer Finances |
| Research Institute for Housing America |
| FRB Distribution of Wealth Analysis |
| BLS Statistics on Wages, Earnings, and Benefits |
| Health and Human Services Poverty Guidelines |
| Gateway to Statistics from over 100 Federal Agencies |
| Housing and Household Economic Statistics |
| A.M. Best Company Tabulations on Life Insurance (not free) |
| Sallie Mae (Student Loans) |
| Per Capita Personal Income |
| Free Lunch.com |
| Consumer Price Index and Cost of Living Statistics |
| Distribution of Wealth 1989 - 1998 |
| Social Science Data on the Web (Stanford University) |
| Utilization of Tax Incentives for Retirement Savings |
| Data Base News in Aging (Look up on Census Bureau site) |
| Social Science Data (University of Miami) |
| 401(k) Decisions and Social Security Reform |
| National Database of Nonprofit Organizations |
| Information on Income and Security in Old Age |
| Poverty Related Links |
| Individual Income Tax Rates and Tax Shares 2000 |
Books
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| 'The Nation's Families: 1960-1990', Hardcover, George Masnick, Mary Jo Bane
Trends in household composition, family structure, and women's working patterns. |
| 'Household Behavior, Equivalence Scales, Wealth and Poverty', Paperback, Camilo Dagum, Guido Ferrari
Quantitative analysis of household income distribution, welfare, poverty, cost of raising children, and taxation. |
| 'Harvard Business Review on Nonprofits', Paperback, Harvard Business Review
Essays on work of modern nonprofit organizations |
| American Demographics
A broad look at trends in the U.S. Each issue has one or two in-depth features, such as the distribution of wealth. (monthly) |
| 'Excel Data Analysis: Your Visual Blueprint for Creating and Analyzing Data, Charts, and Pivot Tables', Paperback, Jinjer Simon
Quickly learn the more complicated Excel features of data analysis |
| 'Demographics of Aging', Paperback, Linda G. Martin, Samuel H. Preston, Committee on Population, National Research Council
1992 report on aging populations. |
| 'Children of the Great Depression', Paperback, Glen H. Elder Jr.
The first longitudinal study of a Depression cohort. |
| 'Beyond Six Billion: Projecting the World's Population', Hardcover, John Bongaarts, Rodolfo A. Bulatao
Examines projections made by United Nations and other on world population growth. |
| 'A Nation Divided: Diversity, Inequality, and Community in American Society', Paperback, Phyllis Moen, Donna Dempster-McClain, Harry A. Walker
A scholarly, fresh approach to important and controversial issues. |
| 'Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public', Hardcover, Matthew A. Crenson, Benjamin Ginsberg
A unsparing portrait of democratic decline in America by professors of John Hopkins University |
| 'Public Policy Towards Pensions', Hardcover, Sylvester Schreiber, John Shoven
Public and private pensions control almost a quarter of the United States' tangible wealth--equivalent to all of the country's residential real estate. |
| 'Social Security and Retirement around the World (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report), Hardcover, Jonathan Gruber, David A. Wise
Compare retirement incentives in 11 countries. |
| 'NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education', Paperback, Samuel L. Blumenfeld
An invaluable history of the philosophy of government schools |
| 'Twilight of Liberty: The Legacy of the ACLU', Paperback, William A. Donahue
Dissects the machinations of the ultra-liberal ACLU and its negative effect on American democracy. |
| 'Impossible Subjects' Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America', Hardcover, Mae M. Ngai
A stunning history of U.S. immigration policy and practice. |
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