Social Issues: PRO & CON 

Online resources:

National Center for Policy Analysis
www.ncpa.org/sid
Debate Central
www.debate-central.org 
Yahoo Directory: Issues and Causes
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Issues_and_Causes
Librarian’s Index to the Internet – Society and Social Issues
http://lii.org/search/file/society
Internet Public Library – Social Issues
www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/soc80.00.00  
Foreign Policy in Focus
Get Op-Eds and info by topic, region and more.  FPIF is a collaborative project of the Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC) and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

Library Databases:
TopicSearch 
To use TopicSearch to search for articles on social issues, try typing the name of your issue and the word "opinion" or the word "editorial".
example: "Abortion AND opinion" OR "Abortion AND editorial"
               (do not type the quotation marks)

Points of View available through the EbscoHost database
Full-text database designed to provide student with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Provides 200 topics. Each with an overview, point and counterpoint. Also offers guides to debate, developing arguements and writing position papers.

Newsbank (including the Courier Post, Burlington County Times and Philadelphia Inquirer)
Newsbank includes special reports (link located bottom, left) with current events and issues, categorized by place, topic or news item.

Books/Call Number  
 Taking Sides series/Reference 300 Tak
 CQ Weekly Reference/328.73 Con
 Congressional Digest: a Pro and Con Monthly/Reference 909.82 Con
 Contemporary World Issues series/Reference - call # depends on topic
 Opposing Viewpoints series/Young Adult Non Fiction - call # depends on topic
 Hot Issue series/Juvenile Non Fiction - call # depends on topic   
 Examining Issues through Political Cartoons series/Young Adult Non Fiction - call # depends on topic
 Pro/Con series/Children's Reference  361.1 Pro