Blog Posts

The pandemic severely disrupted universities and community colleges. In a recent roundtable with President Mary Daly, Twelfth District higher education leaders discussed the significant challenges they continue to grapple with.

Questions on Inflation and the Economy? Watch the Quick Clips from Ask the SF Fed. Sylvain Leduc, Director of Economic Research, answered a set of pre-submitted questions from the public during our event on February 7, 2023.

How do we make the most of green innovation to manage climate risk? In a recent roundtable with Sylvian Leduc, Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the SF Fed, and Laura Choi, the Bank’s Senior Vice President for Public Engagement, leaders from the Twelfth District’s clean-tech sector shared their insights on the role new technology plays in developing a more sustainable economy.

At the five-year anniversary of the Tubbs Fire, the SF Fed visited a redevelopment site in Santa Rosa and spoke with community leaders about the progress being made and the challenges they continue to face in rebuilding. Here’s what we learned.

What was the Fed’s February 2023 policy decision? And how does it affect you? FOMC Rewind breaks it down.

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.

 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.

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.

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.

What was the Fed’s December 2022 policy decision? And how does it affect you? FOMC Rewind breaks it down.