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Public Policy: Research & Evaluation Organizations

This guide is intended to be a starting point for public policy research.

Searching Gov't Sites and Think Tanks

MetaLib and USA.gov are two ways to search a variety of US Government sources with lots of information on social policies at the federal level, the Think Tank Search from Harvard is another useful search engine.

Searching "grey literature"

Grey literature sounds a bit unappealing, but it just means literature that isn't formally published -- many governmental and non profit reports fall into this category. One way to search it is to do a Google advanced search restricting to sites that have .org or .gov. For example: 

"foster youth" and homeless site:.gov