The Society Pages, an online hub of sociology research, recently featured RSF's new website Recession Trends:

There are many ways you could use this informative website in the classroom. For example, you could ask students to form a research question about the recession (e.g., Did crime rates rise during the recession?) and use the website to help answer it. Specifically, the website includes a graphing utility with data on each of the 16 domains covered regarding the recession (housing, poverty, immigration, crime, health, etc.). The graphing utility is found here, and the domains are listed on the right-hand side. Note that students likely would need a few minutes to explore the domains before picking a research question that could be answered using the website.

The website also links to a podcast with David Grusky, a leading scholar behind the creation of Recession Trends. Read the full article here.