Business

Biz/ed: This UK site offers business educational and economic resources including virtual developing country, virtual factory, virtual economy, and virtual farm.
Thomas Net: This site is an industry-to-industry resource. Access information about source of product, company information, CAD drawings, and more.

Financial Crisis

House Financial Services Committee: This is the web page for the Financial Services Committee of the U. S. House of Representatives. Access information on the committee’s schedule, and links to legislation, archived hearings, information on issues, and committee member statements.
Reforming the Nation’s Financial System: This Federal Reserve site offers a timeline of the finanical crisis and tracks financial regularory developments, including regulatory agency hearings and testimonials, and Congressional committee member statements.
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: This is the web site for the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Access information about the committee and hearings.
Tracking the Global Recession: This U. S. Federal Reserve page charts current trends of several economic indicators and real gross domestic product and its related components. Use information in the charts to compare this recession to past recessions. Charts report the average decline of the series over past recessions and the range of the declines. Access information by country or variable. Additional details and the source data accompany the "By Country" charts.

Government Sites

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Find information regarding occupational and employment projections, wages, price indexes, inflation, productivity and much more . Access the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) and the Occupational Handbooks. Access information on national, metropolitan, and foreign data.
Business.gov: This is the government's portal to business information. Use it to guide you through business rules and regulations, provide access to form , and suggestions for assistance.
Federal Reserve System: Access information on the system that serves as the nation's central bank, resources regarding monetary policy, economic research and data, and financial news.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC): The FTC enforces consumer protection laws and regulates policy to ensure the market is "free from restrictions that harm consumers." You can register on the national Do Not Call registry from this site, access information on identity theft and information on other consumer and business related issues.
Office of the Controller of the Currency: This government entity is responsible for regulating the banking industry, including mortgage and credit card practices. Recently, this office has taken an aggressive role in discouraging state attorneys general to prosecute banking and credit card abuses on the state level.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. Use this site to access EDGAR, the corporate filing database. Other information available on this site includes SEC forms, rules, trading suspensions, news, investor information, and much more.
Small Business Administration: The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy. Access publications, statistics, laws and regulation, information regarding grants and loans, and much more.
Social Security Administration: Access information regarding Medicare, benefits, a benefit calculator, report a death, apply for disability benefits, and more.

Business Ethics & Corporate Responsibilities

Alliance for Democracy: Founded in 1996, The Alliance for Democracy was established to work toward ending corporate dominance and establishing a political democracy built on a just society with a sustainable economy.
Better Business Bureau: Founded in 1912, the Better Business Bureau monitors business ethnics and serves as an intermediary between business and consumers. Access the BBB' Reliability Report and Charity Report.
Business & Human Rights Resource Center: This site sponsored by a partnership between Amnesty International Business Groups and several academic institutions provides information regarding customs issues, child labor, working conditions, and much more.
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund: The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund provides legal assistance to communities working to change laws empowering corporations. The web site provides articles and practical advice, including ordinances. The focus is on Pennsylvania, but the information is valuable for other locations.
Corporate Library: This site provides access to research regarding U.S. corporate governance and executive and director compensation information and analysis.
CorpWatch: Holding Corporations Accountable: A San Francisco based organization of independent journalists who investigate and expose corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud and corruption around the world. This site provides information regarding how to investigate corporations.
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility: This organization practices a form of financial investing that encourages corporate responsibility.
Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy: The Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy is a think tank founded to examine the historical and theoretical relationship between corporations and democracy. The site offers articles on the history of corporate development and the need for systemic change.

Labor

Coalition of Labor Union Women: The Coalition is America's only national organization for union women and is dedicated to unify union women in a viable organization to determine common problems and concerns and to develop action programs to deal effectively with the objectives of the membership.
Industrial and Labor Relations Research Portal: Access labor related databases worldwide.
Occupational Outlook Handbook: Use this resource to determine the expected job prospects, working conditions, training and education needed, and earnings for occupations.
Salary Calculator: Use this site to compare salaries from different locations. Also access a range of relocation tools including crime lab, school reports, mortgage qualifier, and moving calculator.