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Child Trends Data Bank – provides national trends and research on over 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being, with new indicators added each month! http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org 

National Survey on Children’s Health and the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs http://www.childhealthdata.org/content/Default.aspx

The National Low Income Housing Coalition publishes Out of Reach, an annual report of housing affordability for state, counties and municipalities: http://www.nlihc.org/

Pew Hispanic Center is a nonpartisan research organization supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Its mission is to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the entire nation. http://pewhispanic.org/datasets

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (WINSS) – provides online data on schools and school district demographic and performance measures such as standardized testing, attendance, graduation etc.  http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/sig/index.html

Wisconsin Interactive Statistics on Health (WISH) –  WISH is a system for accessing data from the Department of Health and Family Services that allows users to access birth (teen births, low birth weight, infant mortality, prenatal care), death, population, hospitalization, and injury data for the state, counties and zip codes. http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/wish

Urban Institute http://www.urban.org

Education Trust focuses its work on exposing achievement gaps in education at all levels. http://www2.edtrust.org

FrameWorks Institute seeks to advance the nonprofit sector's communications capacity by identifying, translating and modeling relevant scholarly research for framing the public discourse about social problems. http://www.frameworksinstitute.org