Economy and Work
Track high-level economic indicators like unemployment, job openings, inflation, and wages through a civic lens, connected to the national and state policy debates that move them.
What you can track
- Unemployment, job openings, and wage trends
- Inflation and cost-of-living movement
- How indicators connect to active policy debates
Questions it answers
- How is the labor market changing in my state?
- What is happening to wages versus prices?
- Which policy debates are tied to these numbers?
Where this hub's cards come from
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- CalMatters
- Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
- Data.gov
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- Federal Harms Tracker (Partnership for Public Service)
- Google Research
- HUD Data
- JAMA Network Open
- Our World in Data
- PEPI: Presidential Economic Pressure Index
- Pew Research Center
- PubMed Central (PMC)
- Regulations.gov
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- U.S. Department of the Treasury: Fiscal Data
- USAFacts
- USAspending.gov
- Yahoo Finance
- ACLED
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- College Scorecard
- Department of Labor (DOL)
- eCFR (Electronic Code of Federal Regulations)
- FAO GIEWS Food Price Monitoring
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Federal Register
- Federal Reserve Data
- FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
- LBNL Building Performance Database
- OECD Data Explorer
- OSHA Data
- ProPublica
- Small Business Administration (SBA)
- Tax Foundation