Mrs. Bass has provided you with a list of potential primary and secondary sources.  Below are links to some of the electronic sources and hints for creating search questions.

Databases:

EBSCOhost MAS Ultra Online for High School  is your source for hundreds of newspapers, magazines, journals, and news program transcripts.  See Mrs. McCutcheon for information on how to create your own EBSCO account to save your searches and your articles.
Username: redbud         Password: See your handout
Issues & Controversies is a database perfect for any student doing research on controversial social issues such as the death penalty, drunk driving laws, censorship... It presents information available on both sides of any issue. Your project does not focus on controversy, but this database may have information and statistics that will be useful to you.
Username: rbhsmedia            Password: See your handout

       
Websites and Search Engines:

Library of Congress is great for primary sources, especially for an historical point of view. Go to http://www.loc.gov.  Click on the Digital Collections link.  Once on this page, you search for your topic by typing in the Search All Collections box OR by clicking Browse at the top of the page.  For more detailed information, see the last page of the Ethnography-Style Research Assignment that Mrs. Bass gave you.

You'll find state and local government statistics at http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Data.shtml

General statistical information on just about any subject is available at http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html through the University of Michigan Documents Center.

Clusty.com is a meta-search engine that not only searches several other search engines for information, it also clusters results in a left column under topics you might not have considered. 

Ixquick.com is a powerful meta-search engine that ranks your results by how often the results turn up in the top ten of all the search engines that Ixquick searches.