Resources

[Elections and Voting] [Economic Policy] [Health Policy] [Environment and Energy Policy]
[National Defense] [Political Ethics]

Elections and Voting

Vermont Secretary of State Elections: Voters. Everything you need to know to vote in Vermont!
vermont-elections.org/elections1/voters.html

Vermont Secretary of State Elections and Campaign Finance Division
vermont-elections.org/soshome.htm

Federal Election Committee - http://www.fec.gov/

Democratic Party of Vermont - www.democratsvt.org/home/

Vermont Progressive Party - www.progressiveparty.org/

Economic Policy

The Conscience of a Liberal, by Paul Krugman (Nobel Prize winning Economist)
www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393333132

Naked Economics, by Charles Wheelan
www.amazon.com/Naked-Economics-Undressing-Dismal-Science

The Peace and Justice Center - www.pjcvt.org

The Vermont Job Gap Study, Phase 9, Economic Development in Vermont: Funding, Priorities, and Performance. The Peace and Justice Center, Burlington, VT. www.pjcvt.org/resources

The Vermont Job Gap Study, Phase 10 - Part 1, Toward a New Economy, Business Climate Revisited: Domestic Business Relocation, and Jobs. The Peace and Justice Center, Burlington, VT. www.pjcvt.org/resources

Vermont Livable Wage Campaign - www.vtlivablewage.org

Basic Needs Budgets and the Livable Wage,
Prepared in Accordance with Act No. 202 of 2008, Jan 15, 2009. www.leg.state.vt.us

Hot, Flat, and Crowded. Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How it can Renew America.
Thomas Friedman. http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/bookshelf/hot-flat-and-crowded.

Health Policy

Health care reform references New England Journal of Medicine
search.nejm.org/search?w=healthcare+reform

U.S. Global Health and National Security Policy - Report of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center
http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/090420_feldbaum_usglobalhealth.pdf

Physicians for a National Health Program - www.pnhp.org

Vermont Health Care for All - www.vthca.org/news.php

Vermont Campaign for Health Security Education Fund. Information on VHAP, Catamount Health, Dr. Dynasaur, and Medicaid - www.catamounthealth.org

Environment & Energy Policy

Policy Options for Reducing Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the U.S. Transportation Sector - Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Harvard University
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/2972/ policy_options_for_reducing_oil_consumption_and_greenhousegas_ emissions_from_the_us_transportation_sector.html

Annie Leonard Presents The Story of Cap & Trade - www.storyofstuff.com/capandtrade

Renewable Energy Vermont - www.revermont.org

Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG) - www.vpirg.org

Vermont Department of Public Service - publicservice.vermont.gov

U.S Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
www.eere.energy.gov

Efficiency Vermont - www.efficiencyvermont.com

Hot, Flat, and Crowded. Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How it can Renew America.
Thomas Friedman. http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/bookshelf/hot-flat-and-crowded.

National Defense

Quadrennial Defense Review Report, Department of Defense, Feb, 2010 - Download PDF

AirSea Battle, A Point-of-Departure Operational Concept, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Jan van Tol, 2010 - Download PDF

National Security Strategy, The White House, May, 2010 - Download PDF

Political Ethics

Statement Submitted on Behalf of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., Before the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, Feb 13, 1997 - Download pdf.

Senators Appointed to Conference Committee Connected to Financial Industry. http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/taxonomy/term/patrick-leahy/.