Economics: Websites

Policy statements, reports, and news on global poverty. AFI "achieves its mission by administering several types of financial inclusion policy related activities including a membership program, the convening of Working Groups, the provision of grants, and a Policy Champion Program."

Economic Indicators, by region; Consumer Price Index; Monthly Labor Review

A non-profit think tank that produces and collects research focusing on economic issues of low and middle-income Americans. Current report: The Making of Ferguson: Public Policies at the Root of its Troubles

Survey reports, maps, and tools from the New York Fed and other Federal Reserves

From the White House. U.S. budget and related documents.

Nonprofit institute for the study of international economics. Research articles and reports, opinion, news, blog and other information is available

Census, industrial, and workforce population data

Display graphs of economic data on academic topics contributed by researchers

Comments on economic conditions in the Federal Reserve Districts. Updated annually

Search by county, state, census tract, or address for demographic data in a convenient visual format.

Demographics by state, county, city. Just one of the many services of the U.S. Census.

Monthly data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services

U.S. Census data-- historical population data--displayed in interesting and various formats

Discover Economic History -- archival data reports from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank

Economic time series data viewable in spreadsheet or text format, from the St. Louis Fed

From the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Easy to use, by entering dates see the change in inflation rate

Economists draw on government data to set up comparisons and datasets-- the value of the dollar through time, year-by-year inflation rate and other interesting comparisons. Tutorial and User Guide each available

Compare "well-being" based on several factors for eleven countries. Sponsored by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development

Amy K. Glasmeier and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provide a calculator for estimating the cost of living and living wage for cities and counties within each state in the U.S.

Web directory sponsored by the American Economic Association

Government website with lots of tables of data for U.S. populations. (Web version suspended in 2012). Updated versions are available in print versions.

A growing database of statistics about what the U.S. government spends money on. Started by Steve Ballmer

From the New York Times, this interactive graphic shows you your rank, based on income.