FRED and the Federal Budget Interactive Lesson
Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) | Type: Lesson
Students will use a Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) data dashboard to calculate budget deficits, surpluses, how much federal budgets in certain budget years added to the total public debt, and gross federal debt as percent of GDP. Using the information they have collected, students will answer questions requiring analysis and inference.
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