The Information for Practice archives are maintained at the NYU School of Social Work and are an incredible resource for all topics. It would be worth your while to check it out.
Click here for a document from the Instutute for Research on Poverty on interpreting U.S. poverty mesures. Good stuff!
The Institutie for Research on Poverty at the Universityof Wisconsin-Madison is an excellent resource for research on poverty. Check out there regular publication Focus
Click here for a February 2012 bibliography on Hate Crimes.
The National Conference on Social Welfare Proceedings is a collection of fulltext papers presented at the national social welfare comferences from 1874-1982. Useful for historical sections in papers and presentations.
News Bank is an online resource for up-to-date information on current events [includes maps and images] as well as access links to newsapapers and older American historical publications.
At the bottom of the link probided here is a link to subscribe to News Band Special Monthly Reports.
Check out the University of Georgia's Initiave on Poverty and the Economy for statistics at the state and county level.
Providing Social Data Services click here for info on workshops and information avaiable to the genreal public.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/courses/0041