Hands-on Assignment – GDP

Find the values of annual U.S. GDP, unemployment rate, inflation rate, government budget deficit and government debt in 2013 and 2014. Report the statistics for the two years in a table, make sure that your statistics are yearly statistics. Then, you also need to have a written part comparing the performance of the economy in 2013 and 2014.

You can use the web sites below. You need to type the results of your research in an organized and presentable format. Do not submit just the print out papers or charts from different web-sites. The typed assignment needs to be printed and a hard copy handed to the instructor in the class.

For the above information you might look at the following web sites, but you could research on your own if the following web sites do not provide you with the requested information:

www.bls.gov

http://www.bea.gov/

www.cbo.gov

www.frbsf.org

www.heritage.org

www.pwt.econ

www.worldbank.org

www.census.gov/hhes/www/income.html

www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget

www.access.gpo.gov.su_docs/budgetguide.html

www.atf.treas.gov

www.census.gov/ftp/pub

www.un.org/depts/unsd/social/inc-eco.htm

www.bea.doc.gov/bea/dn0898nip3/table1.htm

www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook

www.iiss.org

www.bea.doc.gov

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