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With a federal budget of $3.6 trillion, a deficit of $1 trillion and a total debt of $16 trillion, it can be difficult to fully comprehend where all this money comes from and what the U.S. government spends it on. Paul Solman talk...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This program was developed in response to a growing interest in teaching students about personal finance through settings outside of the traditional school day. The program teaches young students about financial choices, cost-bene...
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Grades: K-2, 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
With such a close presidential race, many would like to look to pollsters and their political crystal balls for predictions. But what stats are the most reliable and accurate for predicting what will happen come Election Day? Paul...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
With a bad economy and nearly everyone on the internet, one job opening promoted online can receive thousands of applications. So with competition fierce and many firms using software rather than human beings to hire, Paul Solman ...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Paul Solman compares and contrasts "Obamacare" policy with health care reform proposals from Mitt Romney. Economists on both sides of the political debate discuss increasing efficiency, technological innovation, market competition...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Ahead of the Republican National Convention, Paul Solman goes to Tampa, Fla., to talk to Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, as well as some conservative business owners about their economic pr...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Since the 1960s, the State Department has sponsored young foreigners for temporary, low-wage summer jobs in the U.S. But with high youth unemployment, some believe the program takes summer jobs away from American youth. So is the ...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Looking for a lesson that ties Common Core Standards in Reading Informational Text with Economics? This lesson spotlights the life of Milton S. Hershey and allows students to learn about the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship t...
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Grades: 3-5
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
This video teaches the concept of Consumers. Consumers are powerful in a market economy, and the economic choices of consumers in the marketplace drive the behavior of producers.
This video comes from Virtual Economics. To see ...
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Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Decision Making and Cost-Benefit Analysis. Decision making refers to the process by which rational consumers seeking their own happiness or utility will make choices. Cost-benefit analysis is a t...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concepts of Division of Labor and Specialization. The division of labor refers to the practice that the tasks of producing a good or service are divided up into separate tasks. When workers focus on performi...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Economic Institutions. Economic institutions refer to the established laws, customs, organizations or systems that have a strong impact on economic decisions.
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Economic Systems. Economic systems can be categorized according to who makes most of the decisions in an economy: by individuals and firms or by government officials.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Incentives. An incentive is a cost or benefit that motivates a decision or action by consumers, workers, firms or other participants in the economy.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Money. Money is anything that is used to buy and sell goods and services. In different times and places, many different items have served as money: gold, silver, shells, cattle, tobacco and printe...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Opportunity Cost. Opportunity cost is what you must give up to obtain something else, the second-best alternative. However, what you must give up to obtain your first choice is not really money--i...
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Productive Resources. Productive resources are used to produce goods and services and are classified into four categories: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.
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Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Productivity, which is measured as the quantity of output per unit of input.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video teaches the concept of Property Rights, which refers to the legal ownership of resources, including the right to own, use and sell them. Property rights are essential to the transactions in a market economy, and one of ...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
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