Visualizing the unemployment rate This assignment provides instructions on building the graph below and includes suggested writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “Why does women’s employment change with the seasons? An answer from the NBER” … Continue reading → The post Teaching about the unemployment rate | Bring FRED into the Classroom | October 2025 first appeared on St. Louis Fed Economic Research.| St. Louis Fed Economic Research
Visualizing consumer price inflation This essay describes how to customize the data units in a FRED graph to show the year-over-year growth rate in the consumer price index. From the FRED Blog The post "Egg price deflation and fresh chicken price disinflation" uses data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to describe the difference| St. Louis Fed Economic Research
Visualizing GDP’s growth rate This essay describes how to customize the data units in a FRED graph to show the compounded annual rate of change in gross domestic product. From the FRED Blog The post “Real GDP growth by state: … Continue reading → The post Teaching gross domestic product growth | Bring FRED into the Classroom | August 2025 first appeared on St. Louis Fed Economic Research.| St. Louis Fed Economic Research