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Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Employment and Unemployment
Grade 9-12
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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: In East St. Louis, a Racial Divide in Unemployment
Updated: May 8 2009,
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Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on the racial disparity in unemployment in East St. Louis, where memories of the Great Depression are fresh.
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