Data and Indicators
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Watch FOMC Rewind: What the Fed’s February 2023 Policy Decision Means for You
What was the Fed’s February 2023 policy decision? And how does it affect you? FOMC Rewind breaks it down.
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A Conversation with Mark Gould on FedNow and the Future of Payments
Mark Gould, the Federal Reserve System’s chief payments executive, discusses the launch of FedNow and why he’s excited to deliver the closing remarks at the 2023 Fintech: Innovation, Inclusion and Risks Conference in Santa Clara, CA.
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Rising Interest Rates Dampen District’s Housing Market Activity
Supervision + Credit’s quarterly First Glance 12L report that rising interest rates weighed on District housing market activity, with prices declining since May and existing home sales settling at their lowest level since early 2008.
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Personal Finance Lesson Plan
This lesson introduces students to the connection between education attainment and earning potential. Students will participate in a classroom activity where they develop a budget according to a given scenario.
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How Does Worker Health and Safety Matter for Full Employment?
In this interview, Visiting Scholar Lola Loustaunau discusses her research with food processing workers in Oregon and Washington, how worker health and safety relates to full employment, ways to address barriers workers face, and COVID-19’s impact on workers in essential industries.
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Finding a Way to Measure How Tight Monetary Policy Is
How can we gauge the tightness of monetary policy? The SF Fed’s new monthly Proxy Funds Rate page focuses on financial market indicators to measure monetary policy tightness beyond what the federal funds rate level can show.
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Perspectives from Idaho
To succeed at the highest level, and to be inclusive so that everyone in a community can participate in that success, we need to work collaboratively. Leilani Barnett shares highlights from the Idaho Rural Success Summit, a cross-sector collaboration, which sought to spotlight successful examples of rural community development.
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How Is Inflation Affecting Our Paychecks? Watch Our Latest Tutorial Video
Have people’s earnings kept up with inflation since the pandemic recession? Our new video teaches you how to compare nominal and real earnings using the SF Fed Data Explorer.
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Beyond the Numbers: Amidst Signs of Progress, Inflation Concerns Persist in the Federal Reserve’s Twelfth District
To get a sense of how economic conditions have–or have not–evolved over the last six months, the SF Fed sat down again with Twelfth District leaders in August. In this edition of our “Beyond the Numbers” series, we listened and learned how rising prices are affecting housing, employment, and non-profits.
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What We Learned about Residential Instability in the Bay Area during COVID-19
Read our top takeaways from a new research brief that examines residential instability in the Bay Area during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.