Federal Reserve DFA
Distributional Financial Accounts data on household wealth distribution, assets, liabilities, and wealth shares.
Status: Source identified. Collector not yet built.
Purpose
The first technical goal of this project is to identify reliable public datasets, download or collect them, clean them, and eventually turn them into charts, summaries, and policy-relevant evidence.
This page organizes the main data sources that may support the Wealth Reform Project. Later, each source can have a collector script, notes about access, and examples of useful charts or reports.
FRED
Economic time series including inflation, wages, interest rates, unemployment, GDP, housing, and related indicators.
Status: Public API available.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Labor, employment, wages, inflation, occupational data, and price indexes.
Status: Public API available.
Census Bureau
Income, poverty, housing, demographics, geographic, and household data.
Status: Public datasets and APIs available.
FEC / OpenSecrets
Campaign finance, political donations, PACs, lobbying, and influence data.
Status: Source review needed.
World Inequality Database
International data on income and wealth inequality, useful for comparing the United States with other countries over time.
Status: Source review needed.
Housing Data
Housing prices, rents, affordability, mortgage rates, ownership, and regional cost pressure.
Status: Candidate sources being collected.
Planned Collector Workflow
Each data collector should eventually follow the same basic pattern:
- Identify the official source.
- Record whether the source uses an API, CSV download, spreadsheet, or manual report.
- Download or retrieve the raw data.
- Save a raw copy before modifying anything.
- Clean the data into a simpler format.
- Document the date, source, fields, and limitations.
- Use the cleaned data for charts, summaries, and proposal analysis.