Research

Employer Information

Annual Report Gallery
Contains links to annual reports and company home pages for about 1,000 publicly traded companies.

Companies Online
Directory produced by Dun & Bradstreet and Lycos. Info on some 60,000 public and private companies. Info provided: address and phone number, web site, D&B (DUNS) number, trade names, industry, public/private ownership, structure, and ticker symbol. With free registration, you can also get annual sales, number of employees, contact name, title, and e-mail address.

Corporate Information
A large annotated list of sites for finding corporate information. Links provided by country; U.S. categories include: public and private companies; regional; and sector-specific sites. Go to "US Private" for researching private companies and a good listing of additional sites. Maintained by George Matthew Regnery.

EDGAR
EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering Analysis And Retrieval) is a service of the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), which was founded in the early thirties (after the Wall Street crash of '29) to make public companies provide verified information about themselves. This information is provided in the form of filings made to the SEC — EDGAR is an electronic database containing those filings. Great source for information on government filings by public companies; available within 24 hours (10-K and other reports). Go directly to EDGAR at SEC.

EDGAR at FreeEDGAR
"FreeEDGAR ... provides free, unlimited access to real-time corporate data filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission."

EDGAR at WhoWhere?
"Search Public Companies (complete coverage of company information; stock quotes, internet addresses, business activities, press releases, and EDGAR filings); Search EDGAR Filings (search on filing type, industry, date, company, and/or ticker)"

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Need info on a bank? If it belongs to the FDIC, you'll find on-line summary reports including detailed balance sheet info and other relevant data.

Financial Data Finder
Literally hundreds of links to financial and corporate data on the web. From Ohio State University.

GSI Public Company Websites
Find Public Company Web Sites: "GSI Online [Global Securities Information, Inc] makes this index available to provide Internet users with central easy access to information provided by public companies. ...This list will be updated periodically to include additional publicly held company World Wide Web sites as we become aware of them."

GuideStar
Intended as a web site for donor's ("The Donor's Guide to the Non-Profit Universe"), here is where you can find "information on the programs and finances of more than 600,000 American charities and nonprofit organizations." Search returns: contact and financial information (from the organization's 990) and its Employer Identification Number (EIN).

Hoovers Online
Bills itself as "The Ultimate Source for Company Information." Covers about 2,500 companies. Free search services provide: brief description; address; phone and fax numbers; number of employees; links to SEC filings, stock quotes and media stories; home page (if any); annual sales; names of executive and financial officers. Subscribers ($104/yr; $12.95/mo) get company history; info on subsidiaries, and, in general, more in-depth info.

Intellifact
"Over 325,000 free company profiles and detailed financial information, free business research tutorials, business directories, free file sharing, technology research, business tools, and much more." Includes in-depth reports and more. Also, a very good list of links to other search resources (click on "portal").

InvestQuest
Information on over 10,000 public companies; search by: ticker symbol, company name, industries; proxy forms; and current stock quotes. Also includes a limited number of corporate annual reports and prospectuses.

Kompass
Locate businesses and products worldwide. They claim: "1.5 million companies in 66 countries ... 23 million products and services ... 2.7 million executives' names ... 400,000 trade and brand names." Basic address searches are free; subscribers get revenue information and additional data.

Nasdaq Newsroom
"The Nasdaq NewsroomSM provides comprehensive and timely information to ... anyone interested in learning more about The Nasdaq Stock Market. This site contains the latest Nasdaq press releases, statistics ... hourly market reports, this week's IPOs, daily company deletions, and press releases. ... Indexes & Statistics lets you download all the Nasdaq indexes from 1971 to present, explore monthly stats and the yearly Nasdaq Fact Book, and search our database of Nasdaq companies."

Public Information Network
Directory of Transnational Corporations - "A database on the activities of, and relationships between, hundreds of corporations operating across borders." Information on some of the nasty practices of transnationals.

Public Register's Annual Report Service (PRARS)
Offers company annual reports through the mail (fill out an on-line form).

Public Services International Research Unit
"Privatisation research: the Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU) is a union-funded unit providing information on multinationals involved in privatisation ... The main focus is on research into multinational companies' involvement in privatisation. Company information is based on the PSIRU/PSI database with files on over 2,000 companies. The site is organised by sector as well as by company."

SEC Enforcement Division Actions
Descriptions of SEC enforcement activities, including civil suits in the federal courts and administrative proceedings. Searchable database.

Securities Class Action Clearinghouse
Stanford Law School. "The Stanford Clearinghouse offers investors, the judiciary, policymakers, and the media with a powerful new research tool that provides a deep and careful look into the workings of class action litigation." An attempt to digitize and link "the full text of complaints, motions, judicial opinions, and other major class action filings into a Website with its own full-text search engine."

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes
A complete listing of all Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes, maintained at/by the University of Washington.

State and Local Government Information
Meta-indexes for State and Local governmental information (maintained by the Library of Congress). Includes financial information for government employees.

Stock Smart
Provides info on: company performance in its industry; basic contact information (address, phone, fax); chief executives; brief company description; and current news. Can link to SEC filings. Special info: the top 50 institutional shareholders and the top mutual fund holders for each company.

Thomas Register of Manufacturers
"The entire database of the acclaimed Thomas Register of American Manufacturers is available for your use online. Register today, and you will have access to our proprietary search engine which allows you to search the 155,000 companies in our database classified under more than 57,000 product and service headings. Plus, more than 3,100 online supplier catalogs give you 44,000 pages of detailed buying and specifying information." Registration is free.

Wall Street Research Net
For publicly-traded companies, WSRN provides links to company SEC filings, stock quotes and charts, and home pages. Note the "News Center" and "News Alerts" for the latest information in the press.

WhoWhere? Companies on the Net
Find company location; Internet domain name; home page; and, if available, an e-mail address for additional info.

Yahoo! Finance
"Yahoo! Finance brings you company profiles from Market Guide, who provides users with information on over 9,00 public companies, including contact information, business summaries, officer and employee information, sector and industry classifications, business and earnings announcement summaries, and financial statistics and ratios. Yahoo adds stock charts based on historical data from Commodity Systems, Inc. (CSI), and links to other resources." Also stock quotes, news, press releases, investment research, mutual fund profiles and SEC filings.

Publications With Employer Info

Bureau of Labor Statistics - Economy at a Glance
Jump right to what the BLS is reporting about the economy. The "Economy at a Glance" page includes the official government unemployment figures and other economic indicators, charted over time.

Executive Paywatch
From the AFL-CIO: "Most of us are working longer and harder just to get by. Not so for America's corporate elite, whose exorbitant pay schemes have created unprecedented inequities in the American workplace. Why is CEO pay getting further and further out of line? How does it affect the rest of us who work for a living? And what can be done to rein it in? Click on to find the answers." And ... you can! How much does your CEO make ... and how does it compare to your own paycheck? Find out this and more about runaway CEO pay!

American City Business Journals
Business newspapers from 50 cities -- searchable.

Business Week Magazine
Business Week magazine on-line (some information is availble to subscribers only ... other information is available for a small fee ... and some information is free). Includes a searchable archive of articles dating to January 1, 1991.

Forbes Magazine
400 richest people; Forbes 500; 500 largest private companies (including revenues, profits, number of employees, profile, address, phone and a limited amount of additional information).

Fortune Magazine
Fortune 500 companies and business articles. Online edition of Fortune.

Benefits

Cash Balance Pension Plans Questions & Answers - US Dept. of Labor
The Department of Labor answers some questions about cash balance pension plans for employees whose pension plan is being converted to a cash balance plan.

Consumer Information on Health Plans
Links to Information on Health Plans, including new laws, retiree plans, and plant closings, from Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, U.S. Department of Labor

Department of Labor, Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration
Questions and Answers on 401(k) plan fees, from the U.S. Department of Labor, Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration

Employee Benefits Research Institute
Information on pensions and health plans

Economic Ideas & Corporate Behaviour

Halliburton Watch

HalliburtonWatch.org is a project of Essential Information, a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, and the Center for Corporate Policy, a nonprofit, non-partisan organization working to stop corporate threats to democracy.

Essential Information is involved in a variety of projects to encourage citizens to become active and engaged in their communities. It provides information to the public on important topics neglected by the mass media and policymakers. It also publishes books and reports and operates a monthly magazine, Multinational Monitor. It sponsors investigative journalism conferences and provides writers and citizen activists with grants to pursue investigations on public policy matters. Essential Information also operates information clearinghouses which disseminate information to grassroots organizations in the United States and the Third World. Essential Information is based in Washington, DC.

The Center for Corporate Policy is a public interest organization working to curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable. It is also based in Washington, DC.

Corporate Watch (UK)

"From Corporate Watch’s beginnings looking at PFI roadbuilding, we have broadened out to examine the oil industry, globalistion, genetic engineering, food, toxic chemicals, privatisation and many other areas, to build up a picture of almost every type of corporate crime and the nature and mechanisms of corporate power, both economic and political. We have worked with and provided information to empower peace campaigners, environmentalists, and trade unionists; large NGOs and small autonomous groups; journalists, MPs, and members of the public."

"Over seven years we have transformed a loose association of activists and researchers into a respected professional research and campaigning organisation, run effectively as a workers’ co-operative. We are currently supported mainly by donations from individuals and those few independent trusts and foundations willing to support an organisation such as ours. We do not take money from corporations or government."

Wal-Mart Watch
Keeping tabs on America's biggest private employer.

They Rule
They Rule is a website that allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top 100 companies in the US in 2001.

Grassroots Economic Newsletter

GEO (Grassroots Economic Organizing) Newsletter is a bimonthly publication that reports on worker cooperatives and community-based economies in the U.S. and World wide, and their development through local cooperative action. GEO also provides a global forum for the cooperative movement.

GEO covers crucial issues such as creating solid jobs for everyone, revitalizing communities that face economic and ecological decay, and combining diverse community, labor and environmental priorities.

Multinational Monitor On-Line
"The Multinational Monitor tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment." Includes a section on the Multilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI) as well as information on global corporations.

Public Interest Research Groups
"The PIRGs are state-based advocates for the public interest. When consumers are cheated, or our natural environment is threatened, or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, the state PIRGs speak up and take action."

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
"The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low- and moderate-income people ... The Center is a principal source of information and analysis for policymakers, program managers, the media, nonprofit organizations, and researchers at the federal, state, and local levels. Washington Monthly magazine called the Center one of the five best among 2,000 nonprofit organizations working on public policy issues in Washington."

CorpWatch
"Corporate Watch is designed to provide you--every day Internet users, activists, journalists and policy makers--with an array of tools that you can use to investigate and analyze corporate activity." A joint project of TRAC--The Transnational Resource and Action Center, and IGC--The Institute for Global Communications.

Dollars & Sense Magazine
"Do economic half-truths make your head ache? Lies give you a migraine? If they do, there's a hazard to your health in the media today. Politicians and pundits -- the same ones who rush out on a limb with an answer for everything -- are giving out the wrong answers. It's hard enough for professional economists to separate fact from fiction when it comes to the deficit, poverty programs and international trade. But when most of us are confronted with leading questions and evasive responses, we need a straightforward source to help sort out the truth." Dollars and Sense tries: "the only progressive economics magazine in the country written for a popular audience." Lots of resources and info.

Economic Policy Institute
The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy. EPI was founded in 1986 by a group of economic policy experts, including the economist Barry Bluestone; columnist and editor Robert Kuttner; Ray Marshall, secretary of labor in the Carter administration; Robert Reich, former Clinton secretary of labor; the economist Lester Thurow; and Jeff Faux, who now serves as EPI's president. EPI is supported by grants from foundations, corporations, labor unions, and individuals." Very good economic data and information.

Electronic Policy Network
News, links and information from this network which links liberal organizations, think-tanks and foundations. EPN's "Idea Central" features these topic areas: "Economics and Politics", "Welfare and Families", "Education", "Civic Participation", "Health Policy" and "Media". A project of American Prospect.

Labor Research Association
Labor news, trends, strategies, reports and links, from the publishers of "Trade Union Advisor" and "Economic Notes." Lots of news and more at this worthwhile site.

Economic & Population Info

National Jobs for All Coalition
"The National Jobs for All Coalition is committed to building a new movement for fullemployment at livable wages. This goal unites a diverse group of otherwise divided, single-issue constituencies. The Coalition includes individuals and organizations with a wide range of interests--workers', women's, children's and seniors' rights, civil rights, and economic justice. Others work on health care, the environment, economic conversion, are academics, social workers and lawyers, artists or simply concerned individuals. The goals of all of us would be easier to reach if there were jobs for all at decent wages."

Bureau of Labor Statistics - Economy at a Glance
Jump right to what the BLS is reporting about the economy. The "Economy at a Glance" page includes the official government unemployment figures and other economic indicators, charted over time.

Census Bureau
- The U.S. Census Bureau. We know they collect a lot of data -- and you can get to it, too. Lots of it. And it's useful (from population maps to all kinds of socio-economic information).

Economics and Statistics Administration (DOC)
"Much of the statistical, economic, and demographic information collected by the Federal Government is made available through (Commerce Department's) Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA). Include: The Bureau of the Census ; The Bureau of Economic Analysis; STAT-USA - is a giant information service providing economic, business, and social/environmental program data produced by more than 50 Federal sources."

Federal Reserve Board
Now you, too, can watch Alan Greenspan's lips move markets with only a single word! If you want to know anything (officially released) about "the central bank of the United States," this is the place to visit. Lots of information about the country's financial system and links to related sites.

Fedstats
"More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use." Site includes includes a comprehensive list of agencies, programs, and regional statistics.

STAT-USA
Economic, Trade and Business information in a giant government information service.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
Jump straight to this Census Bureau site (you'll probably need Adobe's Acrobat Reader though).

White House Economics Statistics Briefing Room
"The purpose of this service is to provide easy access to current Federal economic indicators. It provides links to information produced by a number of Federal agencies. All of the information included in the Economic Statistics Briefing Room is maintained ... by those agencies." Includes: Production, Sales, Orders and Inventories, Output, Income, Expenditures, and Wealth. Employment, Unemployment, and Earnings, Prices, Money, Credit, and Interest Rates, Transportation, and International Statistics.

World Bank
The World Bank (along with the International Monetary Fund) has had an incredible impact in shaping the "new global economy." Its policies have affected billions of people (and often quite negatively). But, needless to say, this web site contains a wealth of information (no pun intended), about the global economy in a searchable web site.

Yahoo! Business
Yahoo!'s listing of business information on the 'net.

1990 Census Lookup
"This is the 1990 Census Data Lookup server" and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Bureau of Economic Analysis (DOC)
"BEA--the nation's economic accountant--compiles data that illuminate key national, international, and regional aspects of the U.S. economy. ... The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) provides basic information on such key issues as economic growth, regional development, and the Nation's role in the world economy." Includes a "users guide" and links.

Bureau of Labor Statistics
"The ... principal, independent fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics." Selections include: Data, Economy at a Glance, Keyword Search of BLS Web Pages, Surveys & Programs, Publications & Research Papers, Regional Information, and links to other Statistical Sites.

Market Info

PCQuote
Real time stock price quotes.