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?
Primary sources
- Bureau of Labor Statistics — Employment, wages, and inflation
- Bureau of Economic Analysis — GDP and regional economic data
- Federal Reserve (FRED) — Time-series economic indicators