Cynthia Treichler's List: Macroeconomy

The Federal Reserve of Philadelphia website provides data and information on our Regional Economy. From the resources on this page, you can conduct a data analysis, examine historical trends, and evaluate our current employment situation. A great way for students to connect the national economic health to our local economy.

Lesson plans and other resources.

The living wage calculator is an online tool used to estimate the cost of living in a community or region of the United States. The calculator lists typical expenses, the living wage and typical wages for the selected location. In many instances, the results confirm that many American families who work in low-wage jobs make insufficient income to live above the poverty line.

The CPI inflation calculator uses the average Consumer Price Index for a given calendar year. This data represents changes in prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households. This index value has been calculated every year since 1913. For the current year, the latest monthly index value is used.

This 60 minute program examines the controversy over the Wal-Mart way of doing business. While viewing the video, students could consider the impact of Walmart on the American economy, and consider the relationship between U.S. job losses and the American consumer's desire for bargains.

Editing tool that allows people to remix the great words/speeches of American History with issues of today. This links to a video produced by a group of students that highlights the ways they are impacted by the Economic situation.

Slide show of artists from around the country and personal quotes reflecting how they have been hurt by the current recession.

This interactive graphic shows the different sectors of consumer spending that are analyzed when determining the consumer price index each month.

When data on our current economic situation is released, his podcasts provide a user friendly analysis.

An interactive map of the United States that illustrates the geography of the recession. Job losses have been most severe in the areas that experienced a big boom in housing, those that depend on manufacturing and those that already had the highest unemployment rates.

This weblog was created by an Economics Professor at Penn State University. It includes lyrics and ideas on ways to integrate music into Economics when teaching/learning about different topics and concepts.

Penn State Professor Dirk Mateer's Catolog of movies to use when teaching economics

This website provides information on GDP and changes in GDP overtime. The historical data could be used to identify changes in business cycles over time, and it informs us of what our domestic resources and workforce are currently producing.

This website provides a variety of data resources students can use to conduct quantitative analysis about the current health of our economy. They can utilize the data from the Employment Situation Summary to hypothesize limitations of the unemployment rate.

This site provides students with a current statistics regarding productivity, unemployment, inflation and consumer spending.

Excellent news source for Economics

The New York Times Economix blog interprets the economy and helps us understand our world.

This digital resource documents upcoming trends associated with globalization and its impact on the world economy. It will be a useful resource for helping students gain a more global perspective and see relevance in what they are learning as it relates to the larger community.

This is the European Union database for all economic statistics. Students can gain a global perspective on the significance of key economic indicators including GDP, unemployment and inflation by comparing U.S. statistics to those of the EU.