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The controversial Alabama immigration law, know as HB 56, instructs employers to check a worker's immigration status with the government's E-Verify system. Paul Solman reports from Alabama on how one of the nation's toughest immig...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
On January 26, 2010, the film Avatar officially topped Titanic as the top-grossing film of all-time at the box office. However, the following day, Forbes.com published an article entitled Is Avatar Really King of the Box Office? T...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
A new Congressional Budget Office analysis supports the idea that income inequality has grown considerably over the past few decades. As part of his Making Sen$e series on economic inequality, Paul Solman talks to libertarian law ...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
How do banks calculate the amount of interest paid on a loan? In this lesson, students will view a Livescribe Pencast to learn how to find the dollar amount in interest that is due at maturity. This lesson uses different time pe...
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
The latest unemployment figures out Friday reinforce the notion that the U.S. economy remains weak when compared to recoveries of the past. As part of his reporting on Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman visits with econom...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This game-based interactive gives students the chance to learn about costs and benefits, the cost of college, and potential lifetime earnings.
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Grades: 6-8, 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This video is a basic introduction to the features of EconEdLink. It takes a look at the three most important components of EconEdLink and explains what they consist of. The video details the features of the lessons, the different...
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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 is from an EconEdLink workshop held at the National Center for Economic and Financial Education. Teachers learn how to use technology to teach economics and personal finance using EconEdLink. It discusses how EconEdLin...
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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
With the U.S. unemployment rate stuck around 9 percent, economics correspondent Paul Solman explores whether widespread joblessness is simply the result of a weak economy or if a broader shift toward higher-skill work is occurring...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Did America's record-high level of economic inequality in 2007 help cause the financial crisis of 2008? With Americans' borrowing back on the rise and signs that economic inequality is growing, could there be another financial cri...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the "tippy-top" of the economic food chain as more people fall out of the middle class. The top 20 percent of Americans now holds 84 percent of U.S...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
This lesson uses results from the 2008 Summer Olympic Games to explain that athletes specialize in sports and events for which they are most skilled for the same reasons that individuals and nations specialize in the production of...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
On Wall Street, stocks initially rallied Monday on the news of a debt-ceiling deal, but a weak report on manufacturing killed the surge. Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on the financial world's reactions to the drama o...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
Students will apply their knowledge of economics to the analysis and interpretation of jokes, quotations, and cartoons in economics. Students will watch a Paul Solman video of an interview of Yoram Bauman, the Stand up Economist. ...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Lesson
Is the aptitude for business (the legal kind) distributed among convicted criminals as it is in the general population? One seasoned executive thinks so, and believes that by hiring the cream of the ex-con crop, his company will h...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
What college is tougher to get into than Harvard, Princeton or Yale? Bard College. Not the campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., but the one behind bars in five Empire State prisons. The privately funded Bard Prison Initiative is p...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
As part of his Making Sen$e series, Paul Solman reports on the new book, "Reckless Endangerment," which argues that for the past 20 years, Fannie Mae, a government-sponsored enterprise that increases money for home ownership, purs...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
As part of his continuing coverage of Making Sen$e of financial news, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports from Rhode Island on the struggles that states are facing over how to calculate investment returns for public pensio...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
As part of his continuing coverage of Making Sen$e of financial news, business correspondent Paul Solman reports on how "Sesame Street" friends Elmo, Grover and Cookie Monster are teaching children smart ways to save and spend mon...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
Type: Interactive Tool
International trade allows countries to buy and sell both domestic and foreign goods, as well as services and financial assets. A country's transactions are summarized in a set of accounts called the "Balance of Payments (BOP)." ...
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Grades: 9-12
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Source: Council for Economic Education (EconEdLink) |
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