http://www.dwd.state.wi.us/ The home page address for the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development-DWD (formally the Wisconsin Department of Industry, Labor, and Human Relations-DILHR). The DWD site provides links to many of the agencies within DWD including: Equal Rights Division, Unemployment Insurance Division, Workers Compensation Division, Labor Industry Review Commission, and JobNet.

http://www.homefair.com/homefair/cmr/salcalc.html A site that can calculate the cost of living across the United States and Canada. Designed specifically for people moving from one location to another, if you input your salary, current location, and destination the calculator will answer with the level of pay you will need to obtain at the destination location to enjoy the same standard of living.

http://www.cnn.com/ CNN's home page on the Internet. Contains up to the minute information on national and international news, weather, sports. The site also has special sections on travel, showbiz, environment, health, life style, and politics. The Net address http://money.cnn.com/ will lead you to the financial companion to the CNN site. A wealth of timely information on money, business and finance can be found at the financial site.

http://www.usatoday.com/ The USA Today newspaper on the Internet. Fresh and current information available on business, money, current events, hot web sites, sports, stocks, politics, shopping and many other topics.

http://www.dwd.state.wi.us/lmi/ Obatin current Wisconsin Labor Market Information directly from your PC. Available data includes unemployment rates, wage data, ES 202 data, links to CPI data, employer lists, and links to Wisconsin local labor market analysts.

http://stats.bls.gov/ The home page for the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Information and statistics available on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), Employer Cost Index(ECI), national unemployment rates, industry employment levels, press releases, and other labor market information.

http://www.globalindex.com/chamber/wi.shtml A listing of all the chambers of commerce operating in the State of Wisconsin.

http://www.switchboard.com/ A place to find phone numbers, addresses, and e-mail addresses for individuals, organizations and businesses- locally and nationally.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/  News, weather, sports and other information from the midwest's largest newspaper.

http://www.commerce.state.wi.us/mt/mt%2Dcom%2D0005.html The Wisconsin Department of Commerce's "Fast Facts About Wisconsin" section. There is a link on this page back to the Wisconsin Department of Commerce's home page.

http://www.mnwfc.org/lmi/ The home page for the Research & Statistics office for the State of Minnesota.

http://www.census.gov/ The United States Department of the Census official WEB site. A wealth of data is available at the Census site.

http://www.doa.state.wi.us/dhir/boir/demographic/ The Wisconsin Demographic Services Center Internet site. At this site, estimates of population each year for the state, counties, cities, towns, villages, and four-digit ZIPcodes in Wisconsin are available. The site also provides special analysis and projections of future population numbers. The projections are available by state (Wisconsin), county, city, township, and village. Some files are available for download, eliminating the need to "re-key" data.

http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html Enter a street address at this site. This utility will standardize the address to United States Post Office standards and provide the ZIP+4 code.

http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/usaco-stateis.html Part of the Government Information Sharing Project at Oregon State University, this site compiles useful demographic, economic, and governmental information spanning several years and sources for county comparisons and profiles.

http://www.datamasters.com/ This site, somewhat similar to the Homefair site listed above, provides U.S. Cost-of-Living Comparisons for 399 U.S. Job Markets.

http://www.demographics.com/ The homepage for American Demographics and Marketing Tools magazines. This site contains lots of information including full-texts of past magazine issues.

http://www.hotmail.com/ A free WWW based e-mail service.

http://www.mapquest.com/ Mapquest lets you enter an address; and returns a map with your address starred. Other directions and trip plans are also available.

http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators.html Calculators on-line, something for everyone; science, physics, astrophysics, economics, employment, cooking, and many other on-line 'calculators' are available.

http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/economy/calc/cpihome.html An on-line calculator that computes historical monetary values based on the Consumer Price Index.

http://www.hrlive.com/ An interesting site featuring Internet demographics, layoff news, job fairs, and other human relations news.

http://www.lacrossechamber.com/ The La Crosse Area Chamber of Commerce site.

http://www.weather.com/weather/local/54601 A weather report for the La Crosse area and the nation. Includes current conditions, updated every few hours, and extended and long term forecasts.

http://www.explorelacrosse.com/ The La Crosse Area Convention & Visitors Bureau website. Information on services, attractions, and amenities in the La Crosse area.

http://www.ladcoweb.org/ The home page for the La Crosse Area Development Corporation. One of the lead economic development agencies for the La Crosse area, specializing in business assistance, recruitment, and retention.

http://www.lacrossetribune.com/ The home page for the La Crosse Tribune. News, weather, sports and feature articles, updated daily.

http://perth.uwlax.edu/bdc/ The Small Business Development Center Located at the University of La Crosse. The center provides free one-on-one sessions for persons interested in starting their own business. Non-Credit programs and classes are available for those who have made the decision to start their own business. Economic indicators and other local labor market information is also available from this site.

http://www.la-crosse.wi.us/ This site includes a listing of Internet resources about the La Crosse area and from the La Crosse area.

Local Internet Search Engines:

http://www.couleeweb.com/ The Coulee Region's One Stop on-line Information Resource. On their web site you will find megabytes of information about the area known as the Coulee Region, so called for it's geographic location. For purposes of their web site, the Coulee Region is defined as the area within a 50 mile radius of La Crosse, Wisconsin.

http://www.couleeregion.com/ The CouleeRegion.com web site was first introduced in October 1996 as a master index for Coulee Region web sites designed by HCSweb and also a number of links to other Coulee Region web pages. Over 1,000 web pages are listed and indexed here.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/U_S__States/Wisconsin/Cities/La_Crosse/ Yahoo's local directory for La Crosse Wisconsin.

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