US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Local Area Unemployment Statistics
Provides historical unemployment data for state and metropolitan areas of the United States.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Unemployment in My Hometown
In this lesson plan, young scholars interpret data tables from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to compare national and local unemployment data.
Robert Schenk, PhD
Cyber Economics: Measuring the Economy: An Overview
How the United States government measures the three most commonly used concepts based on aggregated markets: the unemployment rate, the rate of inflation, and Gross Domestic Product. Content explains the purpose of each measurement, how...