"Kuhl"
Anthro/Soc Websites

Center on Wisconsin Strategy
http://www.co ws.org/
The Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a research and policy center dedicated to improving economic performance and living standards in Wisconsin. COWS conducts research on regional trends, generates ideas for improvement, works with business, labor, and community leaders to implement experiments in reform, and studies the results for possible replication elsewhere.

Economic Policy Institute
http://www.epinet.org/
The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that conducts original research on economic issues, focused on five main economic areas: living standards/labor markets, government and the economy, globalization and trade, politics and public opinion, and sustainable economics.

European Union
Site index.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/index_en.htm
Provides current news, official documents, information on the different institutions and bodies of the EU, policies, and FAQ. Includes a special section all about the unified currency, the euro.

Freedom to Marry
http://www.freedomtomarry.org/
A gay and non-gay partnership working to win marriage equality nationwide.

Gender Ads
http://www.genderads.com/

GLBTQ
http://www.glbtq.com
An encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture

Global Data Base of Electoral Quotas for Women
http://www.idea.int/quota/

Immigrationline.org
http://immigrationonline.org

An online resource featuring The Century Foundation's work on immigration and related civil liberties issues. It presents current news, research, and analysis of complicated immigration issues in a manner accessible to non-experts.

Lesbian Avengers
http://www.lesbianavengers.org

Living Wage Campaign
http://www.livingwagecampaign.org/ and http://www.universallivingwage.org/
Two organizations devoted to the idea of a national living wage.

National Vital Statistics Report
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/nvsr/nvsr.htm
Published by the National Center for Health Statistcs, Center for Disease Control (CDC), these reports provide national birth, death, marriage, and divorce statistics.

NativeWeb:
Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World
http://www.nativeweb.org
NativeWeb is an international, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to using telecommunications including computer technology and the Internet to disseminate information from and about indigenous nations, peoples, and organizations around the world; to foster communication between native and non-native peoples; to conduct research involving indigenous peoples' usage of technology and the Internet; and to provide resources, mentoring, and services to facilitate indigenous peoples' use of this technology.

Office of Refugee Resettlement
U.S. Department for Health and Human Services
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/index.htm
Information on federal programs to help refugees resettling in the U.S.

OpenSecrets.org
http://www.opensecrets.org
Website of the Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy.

OWL: Online Writing Lab
http://waukesha.uwc.edu/academics/owl
OWL is a service that gives UW-Colleges students the opportunity to e-mail drafts of their writing to the OWL staff and receive feedback from a peer writing tutor.

Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~oliver/RACIAL/RacialDisparities.htm
Incarceration in Wisconsin

Same-Sex Marriage: A Selective Bibliography
http://law-library.rutgers.edu/SSM.html
From Rutgers Law Library - Newark

United for a Fair Economy
http://www.ufenet.org/links/

Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, Inc. is a nonprofit, multi-issue child and family advocacy agency. Its mission is to promote the well-being of children and families in Wisconsin by advocating for effective and efficient health, education, and human service delivery systems, through educational conferences; on-going projects like W-2 Watch (Wisconsin's Welfare Reform), Wisconsin Budget Project, and Great Beginnings (our early childhood brain development initiative); and publications like the WisKids Count Data Books and Juvenile Justice Pipeline.
http://www.wccf.org/

Wisconsin Indians

Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission
http://www.glifwc.org/

Wisconsin Powow page from the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
http://www.ecb.org/wisconsin/powwow/links.htm

Wisconsin Archeology from the WI State Historical Society
http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/arch/

Wisonsin tribal communities. From Indian Country Wisconsin a project
http://www.mpm.edu/wirp/ICW-05.html

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