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Content
Content is organized into four areas: News, Legal
Research, Legislation, and Statistics. Get a complete list of sources available through LexisNexis® Scholastic Edition (PDF, 155K).
News
Students receive access to up-to-the minute
breaking news stories, as well as the most comprehensive news archive
available through a rich variety of authoritative sources.
- More than 50 leading newspapers from
the U.S. and around the world, many same day of publication,
including extensive archives of the New York Times and the Washington
Post, dating back to 1980.
- More than 175 regional newspapers
- More than 40 magazines with
content ranging from general interest to specific subject areas.
Examples include: Business Week, U.S. News & World Report,
American Journalism Review, The Economist, Nation’s Business,
Newsweek, and Variety.
- Hard-to-find broadcast transcripts
from the major television and radio networks, including ABC News,
CBS News, NBC News, National Public Radio and CNN.
- Wire services, updated many
times daily, include such respected names as Associated Press,
Business Wire and PR Newswire.
- Foreign language news sources
are available in Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch.
Legal Research
Provides authoritative information on landmark
federal decisions and individual state laws that shape the way we
live.
This section includes:
- U.S. Supreme Court cases (from 1789 to today)
searchable by keyword, party name or citation
- State High Court cases from all 50 states
searchable by keyword, party name or citation
- Law review articles from over 500 publications
- All federal laws from 1988 to the present
- State law digests from all 50 states
Legislation
Introduce your students to the excitement of
government in action! With the Legislation area of LexisNexis Scholastic
Edition, students can easily follow the Federal and state legislative
process, tracking both bills under consideration and bills passed.
There are facts about members of Congress, voting records, and much
more.
Your students get:
- U.S. and state bill tracking reports
- U.S. and state bill text
- Congressional Record with debates from the
House and Senate floors
- Profiles of members of Congress and Congressional
voting reports
- State legislative calendars
Statistics
Find statistics fast from more than 40,000 indexed
tables using LexisNexis PowerTables™ functionality. Students
can easily retrieve statistical tables using simple keyword searches.
Tables are drawn from federal, state, private, and international
sources, including:
- Bureau of the Census
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Environmental Protection Agency
- World Bank
- National Science Foundation
- Small Business Administration
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